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These are some hills in "these here parts" --this is what it looks like greening up in this area of NM --different in other places --but for June here, this is good! June is NOT ordinarily anything but our hottest month and therefore requires full time pipelining and windmilling -- it is the month that undoubtedly if you are going to have water troubles, it'll be in June just cuz demand is the highest!

Traditionally our "monsoons" are July and August --where we get moisture shoved up from the Gulf of Mexico in a monsoon type fashion. Used to be you could put money on it NOT raining in June. But that's not been the case this June.

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Thanks for the photo from a different part of the country. I just don't understand how a person can maintain cattle in NM. They look to be in good condition though.
My cattle don't like to eat dirt.
 
cert said:
Thanks for the photo from a different part of the country. I just don't understand how a person can maintain cattle in NM. They look to be in good condition though.
My cattle don't like to eat dirt.
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You do realize don't you cert, that they don't put as many cattle on the land as you do? And their cattle eat different types of feed than yours, at times.

I would be willing to bet, they could send their cattle to your country and they would do fine. But the cattle from your part of the country would not do as well, shipped to them.

You can take them from the desert to the corn field, but not from the corn field to the desert, so to speak. :-)
 
Actually no, these cattle don't do well on lush grass --back in the throes of the worst of this last 10 -yr. drought quite a few shipped cattle out to places where the grass is deep and green ---they did quite poorly..

Grass in this country is SHORT and very stout. It looks dead and a drop of rain will bring it back.... fast recovery and it takes very little to bring it back.

And yes, takes quite a few acres to run a cow out here --that's why the outfits are so big --:)

Took some pics tonite of some other cattle on another ranch. Told the owner they were so darn fat he should be ashamed :) --teasing of course. Three years ago I took pics of cows in that same pasture and it was horrible! I'll get some posted soon as I can. I'm running out of hours in this day.
 
Its always a strange realization when you compare the east to the west.. WE talk about running 300 head or so on a litle 80 acre piece for a week or two and them not even clearing off all the grass and than you hear of places out west having to stocking rates in cows per section.. We have some pasture on this ground that looks more like Montana Bunch grass pasture than Illinois and is so thin that it hasn't been used for 10 years probably.. Bunch grass, ceders, scrub oaks and Prickley pear... Yep, Corn Belt USA, lol.


We have a set of 4 year old cows that came oame out of New Mexico as heifers, went to Eastern Kansas to get bred and are now here.. Great cows, raise a good calf, always look fat and great temperment.. But one of the funniest things was looking at these western cattle when they were presented with corn stalk bales... I can't explain it but puzzlement on a bovine can be humours... Took them a while to figure out stalk fields as well when we ran some Mountain cattle on that..
 
Might turn their nose up to corn stalks but could show you how to eat the buds of a cholla cactus :) ---or the blooms of the yucca or the chamise or .....
 

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