Recent content by GusPeterson

If you pen them by themselves you can add a scoop of dry milk replacer to their grain for a little while to get them started better on feed. Wont hurt to give em some probios and an implant.

At my place we ride a lot of colts, they need more jobs then I have to give them. I could buy a squeeze chute and do all my processing afoot, but I like the ability to take my time, gain experience on my horses, and have no complex alley, tub and chute system to pay for. Usually I only buy 10...

Rope em!

These horses run on grass pasture, I have a barn that needs a new roof, and I’m going to build 7 stalls and runs off one side of it.

To many to mention. My stud is Zan Par Bar/Gay Bar King/Watch Joe Jack and I cross him on a variety of cow bred mares. I shoot for 15 hand plus big size cowhorses, no running bloodlines for me. I find they loose some sense and try when it comes to roping when they are taller and I blame the...

I have 18 right now. My wife and I breed, train, buy, sell, trade and use our horses for ranch work. Sometimes compete in roping or ranch rodeo events.

I buy calves usually around 250-400 lbs and hit them all with a Ralgro implant on processing day. I’m finishing a few steers out some for my own family and a few for friends of ours, and I think I should hit them with another one. How long do they usually last? I know the feedlots I worked at...

Nice calves, only thing is I couldn’t help but notice the ear mark, I had to look twice to make sure they weren’t froze off. Why crop the tip off instead of putting a notch or two somewhere?

Nice looking calves! Pretty uniform bunch given the calving timespan.

Thanks everyone, my tractor is a John Deere 4230 it has 121 hp so it’s probably big enough for a job like that.

I am getting some land cleared that was all brush and pear, now I need to run a disc over it a couple times to kill the pear so it don’t grow back, and then later on this summer I’ll disc again and plant it to oats. I called up a tractor place I’ve done some business with and talked about...

I’ve seen a hail storm rip big bald patches in the backs of all the cows before, it was one of them storms that piled hail up like snow drifts. Killed a colt, but the cattle other then being roughed up some made it just fine. It was late summer and they would’ve all been bred by then, but I...

I am a farrier, up until a few months ago it was my full time job. Now it’s a few days a week. My favorite reply is “do you know any rich old farriers” when someone says that I make all this money. I gotta tell you it’s not worth it. Overhead is ridiculous, people are hard to get along with...

That’s true about rough country and what they eat. Another virtue of the longhorn cow is in its calving ease, they are good crossed on charlais or simmental any higher birthweight bulls and will raise up a better more valuable calf then a purebred, while only running a 700-800 lb cow. Other then...