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WyomingRancher

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Skies changing before the storm
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Well hidden
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2 more out of the way
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All tagged and ready to go
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Hey Randiliana, here's your heifer calf...Canada bound this fall!
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Neat tree this morning
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Calves this morning
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Yearlings wanting fed this morning
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Hope everyone has a good week!
 
Woops! I deleted a bunch of photobucket pictures and I guess they deleted here also :oops:

Let me get this fixed...

Big Muddy Rancher- The barn is 100'x48' and I have 5 large pens to calve in and smaller pens along the wall to put pairs in.

I spot clean in between cows, and have found that bigger pens with a lot of straw stays cleaner a lot longer than small pens. The small pens get so wet and gunky if they calve in them. The cows like the larger pens also, and don't usually step on their calves, or try to calve them out into panels.
 
That's close to the size of our barn, 42x 138,

We don't have many pens in our but the front is horse barn for six tie up one box stall that gets used for calving a maternity pen and one pairing pen 12 ft wide alley about 40 ft long leading into a tub and S alley and squeeze and a 42 ft round pen in the back. We built a loft over the tie stalls and run a calf table off the crowding tub. Not much wasted space. At times extra pairing pens would be nice but we get by as we don't usually calve early. Just started on 30 boughten hfrs. then we start again middle of April.
 
Nice calves you have there. Wish we had your barn, ours is good, just not quite big enough some days.

That gray one is sure cute, haven't showed DH it yet, he may set that little transaction back a bit :wink: :D .

Good looking animals, and beautiful country make for great pictures :-)
 
I'll bet those babies can really play hide and seek in those trees and rocks..lol Glad ya have had a good week, hope the rest of your calving season goes as well...great pictures...keep em coming!
 
Jassy, Yes they can play a good hiding game in the rocks. So can their mothers... that's why it doesn't hurt to use a dog when they get a little older. I luckily have a female border collie who is very quiet, and doesn't put much pressure on cattle, and she is ideal for moving young pairs.

Her strong point of being quiet turns into a liability if she gets around more aggressive cattle... she just isn't very powerful. On the other hand, she doesn't cause wrecks either. I guess I would almost prefer one that causes wrecks, since it would be nice to have more power in a dog.

I must admit though, she's been a great dog for me, and she and I get along famously :)
 

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