Recent content by Dave

About a month ago we worked all the calves and hauled the pairs off to summer camp. The dry cows got kicked up on the hill behind my house. Thirteen cows on about 230 acres. Enough grass for about 2 months. I run up there on the quad about twice a day to see if I can spot new calves. There...

There was a lot of reservoirs built around here in the 30's to catch the run off from the winter snows. The one up stream in my river is medium small in size compared to others. It holds about 25,000 acre feet when full like it is now. There is still run off coming into the reservoir and he...

This is the high desert. We average about 12 inches of precipitation a year. The average for April is a little less than 1.5 inches. I don't know what we got over the last 3 days but I guess about half an inch. Living here you realize it is not always the amount of rain but the timing of it...

I normally have a box of crayons. But not so much this year. Out of 70 calves 56 are black or baldies, 9 are red or red baldies, and 5 are Char or char crosses. Hopefully the day they go to the sale there is a market for black hided calves. That few red and white calves will just get blended...

We got the water going down the main ditches over 2 weeks ago. But all my field ditches were in serious need of being plowed. I didn't plow any of them last year. Between cows marching across them, rocks rolling into them, and general sediment build up it would be a challenge to get water to...

Just got home from the sale. Pairs were $2,500 to $2,600. There was 2 smooth mouth pairs I was considering buying. First pair brought $2,450, forget that. The second one I started it at $1,600 and took it up to $1,900 where I let the other guy have it. Young close up bred cows were $2,000+...

There is a spring which would be well to the right of that first picture and 2 draws over. Or they can come down the hill behind the house to the irrigation ditch. The first couple weeks they set camp at the spring. Now they have moved to the area of the first picture and it is short walk...

So we hauled off the pairs on April 8. There was 2 cows with brand new calves and 10 dry cows. We kicked them up on the hill. This is a broken up piece of ground with lots of shoulder high sage brush. Lots of places for a cow to hide not to mention calves. I go up there every day to get a...

Motley. Took me a while to figure that out. It would be called brokle faced here. Once again regional differences in what something is called.

It was an arrow. And he was just an actor reciting words written by someone else.