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South View of Lone Mountain
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Two shots of windmill and buttes
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Sage and grass country
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No 1800 pound cows allowed here Jason lol
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A good calf off a purchased cow
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Homeraised 2 yr. old hfr. and hfr. calf
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Going nowhere fast.
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Fall scene
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An earlier picture of a tank we set. It has a concrete culvert ring for a fence. Just started using them, and think it works good. Easy too.
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Nice calves Tap :) Ranchwife has a Lone Mountain in her backyard that would make that one look like a gopher mound :wink: :P :lol:

I can't believe that old car body is still sitting there--the old car restorers have pretty well cleaned this country out of them.....
 
What intersting county..raising cattle on that ground i'm sure is a challenge , but they sure look hearty...I guess they know how to adapt very well. Thanks for sharing
 
Ranchy said:
Your calves look great, can't believe how big they are!
Hey, do ya have any pics you could show us of the south end of the place? :wink: Or are some of these that end? :lol:
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The first three pictures are up on the N. end of our ranch. The rest are all on the south end. You don't think I would go looking for small calves to put on this site do you Ranchy? lol. We have some of those too. :wink: This year, the earlier calves, up to mid Apr. (which we don't have as many of) are quite a bit bigger than the later calves. I attribute the heat this summer to that. Since it is shipping time soon, we will know for sure then.

OT, I like this "mountain" just fine. :lol: I also know it is not really a mountain like they have in Ranchwife's country. I like it over there too. :P

Jassy, you made me chuckle. We probably run about half the cows per acre as you guys. We would be running 40 acres to the cow if you didn't count the repl. hfrs. and bulls. So it is in the higher 30's at the moment. I was looking for some real sorry ground to poke fun at Jason.

Thanks everyone else for your comments. Oh, and we are about 40 some odd miles to a Taco Johns from the south boundry of our ranch RR. :!:
 
Tap, that is about as far as we are from a Taco John's.. lol.. Lot of other fast food places closer but that is the neariest one of those... Nice pics.. Can't say that we have any buttes around here..
 
I thought I would fool around with sizing these pictures, and add a few more.

Another butte in our winter pasture.
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We are fortunate to have good water in all our pastures. This one is looking off into the "gumbo", a large grass country mostly devoid of any wells. You can see two local landmarks in the distance.
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Two more pics. of cattle.

Oops!
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Pair.
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I have a question for all of you cattle raisers of the northern states. I notice in pictures that cattle are scattered far apart...and ya'll seem to get pictures of pairs quite often. Do the calves stick fairly close to the mama's most of the time?

Here bout the only time you see a calf paired up with it's mama is early mornin when it's nursin, or late in the evenin when it's nursin.....all the rest of the time the calves hang out to gether, with one or two ole mama cows(the babysitters)...and all the other cows go off to graze.
 
Good looking cattle not TOO BIG with good calves I never liked those big slob type cows either :wink:
 
Very nice country, nice of you to wait for it to green up before showing it off. I can't believe the difference a fall can make. I keep remembering what shortgrass said about that...
I'll be watching the sale listings for your heifer calves, they would improve nearly any herd west of the Mississippi. You might have picked the two-year-old pair to post, but I'll bet there are more where they come from.
No,I wasn't kidding about the green up. It has froze here also, and scheduled to again for good this year.
 
Thank you Haytrucker. I very much appreciate what you said.

Jersey lilly, it is funny that you ask about the cows being paired up. I have been thinking about tjos recently, as it is the time of the year to sort for shipping.

I think it makes a lot of difference how a person runs their cattle. In a rotational grazing system, they seem to get used to being apart a lot of the day. We will move the pairs, and there will be a lot of them not paired up. The calves don't seem to go back to where they started from very often either in rotational grazing. They get used to the system too. We had a neighbor that ran about 3-400 pairs in 6000 ac. approx. for part of the summer. This was one large pasture. He said that you would see them paired up most of the time in this case.

Age of cow, and time of day makes a lot of difference too. And temperment of cow makes a difference too.
 
When our calves are real young we get what we call the baby sitter groups..While most cows are out watering or eating or whatever there will be one or two cows watching 20-30 calves and theremight be two or three of these groups... Than the calves start forming up a gang and will follow people all around the pasture... Some will stay paird up with the cows for a while but for the most part not really... I don't evens ee them paired up in the mornigns or evening as a whole...
 
Reminds me a lot of this country-- Kind of comical how we have to make "mountains" out of any bunch of hills or buttes we find....The best I saw yet is the road between Miles City and Jordan Mt.- where you drive for 40 miles without a tree and then there is 1 lone tree alongside the road....
On either side of it they had mounted a road sign "Custer National Forest" :shock: :P :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
ranchwife said:
ya know what the best part of those pix was, tap????


















NO NEIGHBORS AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE!!!! :D :D :D :D
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You are right about that Ranchwife! I do have some neighbors up here, but down south of us, if you go straight south of our ranch, the next neighbor is many many miles away. :!:

It must be that no one wants to live here, or the country is so poor that it won't support very many of us. :wink:
 

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