My Fall bottle calf development is not nearly as refined as my Spring development program but I do know that that floating red circle is the best $40 I’ve spent in a while. #gottastartsomewhere
In the tractor this morning trying to blindly get across the meadow from one fence line to the other to tuck the spring cows in with some hay, as it goes completely white: Cameron: “This is a squall”
Me: “I don’t want to live in a place where you can use the term ‘squall’”
When feeding harvested forages to the cow herd, you need to know what you have in order to know what to feed. This is vital when faced with some of the challenges we have seen in the past couple years, such as.... (thread)
Are you ever listening to Pandora and a song plays, and you’re like “yes” and you consider unliking it, just so you can like it again? I feel like it would help Pandora know my mood better for the day.
If every flat surface in your home isn’t populated with sandburrs removed from skin and clothing with surgical precision, do you really live in the Sandhills? #nebraskasandhills#sandburrseason
High anxiety moment of the day: watching a gooseneck trailer be pulled by a pickup with a utility box. Exact thought... “He’d never make it out to the branding pen”
Yesterday we kicked heifers out of their development environment, called it good on AI after two cycles, and told the bull to get to work as we kicked them through the gate and out to grass. Cycling was awesome, second cycle rebreeed numbers were ideal. Nutrition is critical.
Whipping up some breakfast in my kitchen. I have started weaning two of the bottle calves with step-down milk diets because they are at appropriate DOA and trying to eat me out of house and home with their grain. #bottlecalfmanagement#nutritionatallstages#beefcattle