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Went for a walk today

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IL Rancher

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Decided to take the dogs for a walk today.. At least the three Kelpies... Some good exersize for me and for them.. My boys need to gain about 3-5 pounds.. I tink the female is stealing their food, lol.



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Crazy girl

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Blue, the wonder dog

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Zeke looking for something to herd.

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Nothing on the old sand prairie

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Fixer upper.

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Been a while....
 
I was just wondering how much you farm and what you grow? I understand this is ranchers.net but I assume many on here like me use both to offset the price swings. I grow corn, wheat, oats, in a (first year NOTILL) dryland rotation and alfalfa, corn, forage oats on irragated ground. I also post on newagtalk.com which is what I consider the foremost farming message board in the country.
 
Nope.. Don't farm at all but we rent out quit a bit of farmland. The family (I don't really get to touch the rent money, lol) makes more money by them renting out the ground to a neighbor than we were able to make farming the gound mostly because we just plain don't have the equipment to farm, although that has slowly changed over the years.

I imagine that in the long run we will be farming but with rent pushing up another 50 bucks an acre this past year when it was alreay basically running 150-200 an acre in the area (basically a buck a bushel) it is hard to justify it.

Most all ground around here is corn and beans. A lot of corn on corn for that matter. In any given year maybe 2-3% of the land is in smal grains like wheat or oats.. Sometimes you will see edible peas and sweet corn in a double crop under irrigation.
 
Oh.. If for some reason corn prices stay up and calf prices plummet more we would probably cut our beef herd in half and go back to farming half the ground we currently use for cattle. Not great ground but not bad. Prone to drought as there is some sand hills on it but can still yield very good. We stopped farming it for the most part because the fetility was screwed by the last tenents and needed a major rotation.. Needs more OM to hold the moisture... Getting there... Also, I really prefer working with cows compared to fixing machinery.. Been doing to much of that the past 6 months and I am not a talented mechanic.
 
Oh... Zeke is a nut job and would rather growl than eat when it comes to food and Blue would rather hide in his hidehole than eat so Skid basically gets to eat while Blue and Zeke act like fools... I have to take them out now to feed them, which is okay...
 
good loking dogs il rancher
i was over to see kj a week or so ago and i told him about your blue dog and he told me he remembered him and he is a real good dog i can't remember if you told me how he is bred if you did please refresh my memory
by the way if you want some more good kelpies i have litter that will be ready to go march the 16th
until later
jerry
 
Jerry... I don't even remember anymore... This is going to sound terrible but I beleive he was out of a dog named Sagebrush Bow and a bench named Sagebrush Tie... I find it hard to believe.. I will need to check my old records to be sure.. I think he is double bred Hipshot... He was/is what I was looking for but he would still rather I be on a horse than on foot.
 
Nice pics! I think that's the first time I ever saw a Kelpie......I always thought they were kinda like the Corgis.........maybe the rhyme goofed me up. At least, that's what I'm gonna blame it on........ :P

That last pic would look great with one of my dad's barnwood frames around it............. :wink:
 
sagebrushes beau was a real good dog from what i heard kj sold him because he was getting old and he has said he wished he'd kept him as he had alot of good pups out of him
as for the bench tie does not ring a bell with me but it's a good bet she was a hipshot on top and most likly windrushes fury on the bottom
that was an awsome cross that most all of the good kelpies that are bred here in states go back too many times
most all of my dogs go back to that cross sevaral times
until later
jerry
 
I sure haven't been around Kelpies at all, and I've sure learned alot in the last few days with your's and Jerry pictures...Thanks for the lessons and pictures! (((sure glad I'm not a critter with them dogs working)))) :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

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