I would like to thank you all for for the comments on last week’s post. It was good to hear from all of you. With this in mind, I wanted to ask you all a question.
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We have one red cow… One. You would think that that would make her stand out enough in our herd, but I guess she needed more attention.
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Apologies! ! Our blogs have gotten a little short the last few weeks and this one will be no exception.
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It’s calving mayhem. The AI’d heifers and cows are more than halfway done and the bull-bred cows are just barely starting to calve.
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Calving season is upon us again here on the Greet Ranch, and with a whole new set of joys and sorrows to be had.
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I told you all last week about the chores I do every morning. One of those was to feed our small group of light heifers. We’re trying to get them caught up to the rest of the group for breeding. They occupy the main pen in the corral with a couple of my brother’s bulls in the smaller pen right next to them. However, the other morning when I went out there they didn’t have any water.
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This morning we woke up to find that it had rained. It made an icy, muddy mess. But the chores need done no matter what. I thought today I would walk you through the normal routine that I do each morning.
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I just wanted to have a brief post today. This past week was nice. We received quite a bit of snow, but there isn’t a whole lot of excitement to share.
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Monday meant that it was time to bring the cows in from the badlands. It started with a gather. They were pretty well scattered because the weather has been so good.
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We finally got our entire second round of beef delivered…
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We’re back into working cows this week. It started with kicking the cows further into the badlands, then vaccinating heifers, and today we gathered and sorted calves for the upcoming week.
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This is a post that is very free of cattle and ranching. It was a slow week without too much excitement after all the Christmas festivities, but today we took the kids up to go skiing for the first time this year.
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For those of you that read my mother’s blog, this will be old news. But since it has taken up a lot of last week, I thought I would talk about it anyway. The old scale house has been needing some work for quite a while now.
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A couple weeks ago I talked about testing hay for the cows’ diet. While most of the cows are still out in the badlands, the Big Trails cows are now in the field eating hay.
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These are the heifers that we have either AI’d or the bulls have bred, but we decided to not keep as replacements. Each year we send them to Riverton to sell them through the sale barn.
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This week I wanted to share another recipe with you, and yes, it is another roast. I promise I will do something different someday but we seem to get a lot of people who shy away from roasts. I know I was one of those people for a long time, and the reason was I didn’t know how to cook them!
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To get ready for winter, we have to think about feeding hay. And we have to know what is in that hay. To help us with this we collect hay samples to send to the laboratory. This analysis will tell us how much protein, energy, fiber, moisture, and different minerals are in the feed.
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With the cows out in the badlands, we’ve been making sure they have water and deciding which yearling heifers will be joining them in the future.
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I’m happy to report that our corral repairs worked wonderfully. We brought the cows down from the Mesa on Monday. Tuesday, we put them in the corral and spent most of the day sorting.
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Time marches on. Unfortunately, it takes its toll as it does. My father, grandfather, and their hired hand build our main working corrals in the 70s. So they are almost 50 years old. Parts of them are in good shape and parts are not.
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