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 […]
Category Archives: Cattle
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 […]
Finding solid footing
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 […]
The New Kids on The Block
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. […]
Dog Gon’ It
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. […]
Weaning calves for maximum health
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 […]
Feedlot Facelift
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. […]
Who gets to stay? Preg-checking heifers
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 […]
Yearlings take a walk
On Monday we brought in about 380 yearlings for shipping. We moved them from a nearby pasture to our feedlot in the yard. In the three or so miles to […]