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Category Archives: Cattle

Things Happen

February 25, 2017by Grant Ranch Leave a comment

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 […]

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The Routine of Winter

January 29, 2017by Grant Ranch Leave a comment

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 […]

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Tub Grinding

January 15, 2017by Grant Ranch Leave a comment

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 […]

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Winter Grazing

January 4, 2017by Grant Ranch Leave a comment

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 […]

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Finding solid footing

November 10, 2016by Grant Ranch Leave a comment

We prefer to work with cattle when we are all on solid footing. Dirt is ideal, easy on hooves and feet. BUT when the dirt gets wet and turns to […]

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The New Kids on The Block

November 6, 2016by Grant Ranch 1 Comment

Most years we purchase calves in the fall to winter in our backgrounding lot. Backgrounding is putting light weight calves on a high roughage ration to grow out their frame. […]

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Dog Gon’ It

November 4, 2016by Grant Ranch Leave a comment

Our work dogs are a big part of the team. They are a lot of help when it comes to moving cows- and they are also great companions, of course. […]

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Weaning calves for maximum health

October 23, 2016by Grant Ranch 1 Comment

We are weaning calves from the mother cows. We want to do this before there is snow on the ground (or at least snow that stays as it has all melted […]

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Feedlot Facelift

October 19, 2016by Grant Ranch Leave a comment

New bunks have arrived! In a couple of weeks the calves will be weaned and will be moved into the backgrounding lot. So we are getting everything ready for them. […]

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Who gets to stay? Preg-checking heifers

October 16, 2016by Grant Ranch 1 Comment

We have been working between rain showers. As the veterinarian was scheduled in advance we didn’t have a choice on the weather but it turned out to be a really […]

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