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Where would you rather be?

Big Swede said:
Another place I thought was just beautiful was on the eastern slope of the Big Horns north of Sheridan, WY. Awesome scenery. And of course if scenery is your main criteria there's gcreek's place.

Sad part Big Swede is most of us ranchers are too narrow minded to figure out how to make a living from scenery. :lol:

However, if you think my scenery is worth something, I may have a deal for you. :wink:
 
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when i showed this to my son he said it would be okay if we culled the cowherd down.
 
don said:
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when i showed this to my son he said it would be okay if we culled the cowherd down.


For that money you could get a few more acres in Nebraska.
 
don that was just a nasty trick to play on a bunch of froze up snowed in northerners. lol

I like where we are here in southern Ontario but the biggest things that make it tougher here is the regs that they keep piling up on us. The other problem I have is that we have no rough land on which we can run the cows in wet weather so we get MUD.

So if I were to go somewhere else, I think I would look in Northern Saskatchewan or Gcreek's country looks pretty good too. I think I could fit in with the BC potheads. :lol: Speaking of which, whatever happened to Judith? :lol2: :lol2: :lol2: She was pretty cool.
 
if i had that money i wouldn't be heading for nebraska! when we were still in alberta they brought some feeders from the parker ranch on the big island into strathmore - i think western feedlots. they said they were a little scary after the boat ride and being trucked from the coast.
 
don said:
if i had that money i wouldn't be heading for nebraska! when we were still in alberta they brought some feeders from the parker ranch on the big island into strathmore - i think western feedlots. they said they were a little scary after the boat ride and being trucked from the coast.


Not a whole lot of islands in Nebraska. :?

Those cattle look pretty wrung out when they get off the ship but when they grassed them in BC a lot of them did 4 lbs + a day for compensatory gain.
 
Several years ago a college buddy of mine and his dad worked for the Parker Ranch of Hawaii. They had many problems rounding up the cattle. They came back within the year with horrable memories.
 
burnt said:
I think I could fit in with the BC potheads. :lol:

is pot legal in BC?

the summer before BSE i went up to look at a ranch on the kettle river and i had crossed the cont. divide at creston and stopped at a dairy queen and there was a table of about 5 kids all passing around a fat one right there in the joint like it was no big deal.
 
Hereford76 said:
burnt said:
I think I could fit in with the BC potheads. :lol:

is pot legal in BC?

the summer before BSE i went up to look at a ranch on the kettle river and i had crossed the cont. divide at creston and stopped at a dairy queen and there was a table of about 5 kids all passing around a fat one right there in the joint like it was no big deal.

No it's not legal.
 
I have kicked around many places , I really love Germany and New Zealand is gorgeous. Hubby loves it here , we can always move to the Netherlands and be pretty much set for life, but he is calling Alberta home now . I would never leave to go anywhere with mom and dad being so close. I guess home is where the heart is and it is right here just east of Red Deer for us.

I sure would love to visit more places though .. :)
 
If we could eliminate 2/3 of the the people around here, just south west of Calgary would be the ultimate spot. Great weather summer and most winters, no humidity to speak of, the rocks and the prairies, plenty of hard grass, no bugs in the winter, no poisonous snakes and seldom have to deal with mud. Of course if you and your cows like heat and humidity then it is not for you.
 
In 1970, I was a young man with the dream job of "wrangling dudes" on the prettiest ranch in the world, Moose Head Ranch in the heart of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. At the time, I rather wished my ancestors had migrated to that neck of the woods instead of stopping in the Nebraska Sandhills, even though the winters in that country last about eight months every year. There are no mountains on the globe any prettier or more identifiable than the Tetons, which form the western edge of Jackson Hole. This was still wild and free country back in 1970, but was fast becoming a prime tourist area. Too many other people loved those Tetons just as much as I did. Now way too many people have taken up residence in about all of the beautiful mountain areas of the world.

Now that I find it more enjoyable "wrangling" cows instead of people, the old Sandhills look pretty good. It is great cattle country. There is good water, high quality grass for grazing or hay, post hole digging is easy, horses don't need to be shod, and the wind blows hard enough to power windmills and to discourage people from wanting to move here. :-)
 
I guess if there was somewhere else I wanted to be, I wouldbe there. Just like if there was a job I would rather do than ranching, I would do it. Life is too short not to be satisfied with your job and where you live.
 
There are a couple areas I have always thought looked like great ranching country.

* Clayton to Raton, NM

* Sheridan to Ranchester, WY

and, that country between Guthrie and Childress, TX is very good ranch country.
This past week of chopping ice and biting north winds has made moving north seem less desirable.
 
Just between us, I know nobody's listenin', if I had my 'druthers, it'd be the Sandhills for me, but I guess I'm sorta "stuck" where I am. I've tried to avail myself of a couple of opportunities to go elsewhere but situations- (family matters)-have kept me where I am. My only consolation is I've been to worse places and this place is better than those. Right now, we've borrowed weather from farther north and it's sure been beautiful. Also, the family and me get to travel at least once a year and it keeps me semi-sane.
 
gcreekrch said:
What did you think of the Kettle River Valley?

it wasn't really unlike any other mountain river valley west of the continental divide. it was a pretty area and the people that owned the place looked to be excellent operators. their place was right by beaverdale or something like that south of kelowna or penticton right on the kettle river. the part of the river at their place was very powerful - i can remember thinking a guy would not want to wade out into it. The 300,000 acre crown grazing lease is what attracted me at first but they didn't run that many cows and they all had to winter in this narrow river valley that he had irrigated (1200 acres) and it looked like the cattle would feel cooped up all winter. i had a feeling inside that a guy off the rolling prairies of the front range might get a little claustrophobic.

i liked it - it was different country and seems like it was right along some tourism trail or something like that. we were looking for a place that my wife and i could run cattle on that would have the potential to grow numbers, raise the kids and my folks could retire on and maybe run some kind of B&B or fishing or whatever.

i decided to drive home and cross the border just south of osoyos. that was different country. maybe sell the cattle and try my hand making wine.
 
Hereford76 said:
gcreekrch said:
What did you think of the Kettle River Valley?

it wasn't really unlike any other mountain river valley west of the continental divide. it was a pretty area and the people that owned the place looked to be excellent operators. their place was right by beaverdale or something like that south of kelowna or penticton right on the kettle river. the part of the river at their place was very powerful - i can remember thinking a guy would not want to wade out into it. The 300,000 acre crown grazing lease is what attracted me at first but they didn't run that many cows and they all had to winter in this narrow river valley that he had irrigated (1200 acres) and it looked like the cattle would feel cooped up all winter. i had a feeling inside that a guy off the rolling prairies of the front range might get a little claustrophobic.

i liked it - it was different country and seems like it was right along some tourism trail or something like that. we were looking for a place that my wife and i could run cattle on that would have the potential to grow numbers, raise the kids and my folks could retire on and maybe run some kind of B&B or fishing or whatever.

i decided to drive home and cross the border just south of osoyos. that was different country. maybe sell the cattle and try my hand making wine.

Pretty much what I thought about it, especially the claustrophobic part. :wink:
That is also an expensive part of BC to invest in. Go North young man. :D
 

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