Is this good water?
Water sources on the prairie largely depend on spring runoff to fill dugouts. During the heat of summer these dugouts can rapidly be depleted as cattle drink and water is […]
Category Archives: Cattle
Annual check up time
We brought the bulls in today for their annual check up, vaccinations and fertility analysis. In preparation for the breeding season we want to ensure that they are physically sound […]
Why Yearlings?
Over the last couple of weeks we have been completing spring processing of the yearlings going to grass. If you have been reading this blog over the last year you have noticed we […]
Calving on Pasture
Producers adjust their calving time and system to meet their needs. A producer may calve in February and March to avoid the craziness of calving during spring seeding. This comes […]
Vaccinating Cows
Over the last several weeks we have been vaccinating the cows. Why Vaccinate? Disease prevention is an important component of any beef herd’s management. A producer has three management options […]
Spring Runoff
Water, water, everywhere. Living in the semi-arid prairie we always appreciate water, whatever form it comes in and how inconvenient it may be. Last weekend we received about 10 inches of […]
Things Happen
Our heifers are scheduled to start calving about April 10th and the cows April 20th. At the end of February we were not expecting to see calves while feeding. But […]
The Routine of Winter
Daylight hours are short. But once the sun is up enough to see, someone is out checking the hospital pen. This is a pen where chronics and poor doing calves […]
Tub Grinding
Once upon a time, we used bale feeders, or a combination of bale feeders and tub grinding. Basically everything for the calves in the backgrounding lot now have hay and greenfeed […]
Winter Grazing
When temperatures dropped in mid-December, we moved the cows closer to home where they had more shelter and were easier to access with feed. But as the weather has warmed […]