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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...

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...

Yesterday we branded the calves. Today we had to sort off some pairs and we hauled the remaining 100 pairs off to their summer home. Two semi trailers and 3 stock trailers full of the cows. And 2 stock trailers stacked full of the little calves. Mixed in with the cows was half a dozen Angus...

I think today was the 8th or 9th branding I have helped at this year. Two or three every week and others that I knew about but didn't attend. Some of them have too many people. Some of them not enough help. Today was about right. But it was about the most miserable weather. Which is saying...

A couple of my cows ended up on the neighbor's place. I won't go into that long story how they ended up there. But these two witches are a bit spooky. They were there for about 10 days until the cowboys had time to go get them. A black cow and a red brokle faced cow. The red cow had a calf...

I had to go to New Plymouth Idaho this morning for some grass seed. I also had some things which I normally get at D&B Supply in Baker which is the opposite direction. But there is a D&B in Ontario. Ontario sits on the the state line. The Snake River is the border. Ontario, Oregon is on the...

One of my neighbor's house, barns, etc is on the south side of the river. His cow herd winters on the north side. His range land is on the south side. The river is running too high to cross the calves. So rather than drown the calves he brings them up and uses my bridge. This means they...

Daffodils blooming in the flower bed. The apricot tree in the back yard is in full bloom. Fresh snow this morning on the hill just a little above the house. Yep, sure signs of spring here in Baker County.

Cows eating hay this morning in the feed row. If things go according to plan A this will be the last time I feed this spring. Where they are going to for the first couple weeks is a little below this mornings snow level. I would help the grass to grow if it would warm up a bit. Maybe quit...

I went to a branding last Friday and on Saturday and then again on Tuesday. Guessing over 700 calves total. Another on on Friday. We are branding here on Saturday. Followed by another one on Sunday and them again on Monday. By talking to the other guys at brandings they have been to ones...

So in the late fall early winter I bought 67 bred cows. They were preg check by the sale yard vets. I selected cows that were determined to have calves in February and March. There was 12 calves born in January. Here we are nearly at the end of March and it is looking like there will be 12...

After I fed I went back to the front field with the bucket on the tractor. When the main ditch got cleaned several big rocks and willow root wads got rolled down into the field ditch. I wanted to clean them out. While driving out there I saw a cow calving. When I got done I notice a cow off by...

Another "Snow White". I said the latest but there have been 2 more calves born since I took this picture. There is around 50 calves out of 75 cows. When I feed in the morning the cows all want to crowd around the back of the truck getting hay. The calves all want to stand in front of the...

There is a irrigation ditch that flows right behind my house. It waters probably 30 acres or so on my property. Down stream it irrigates a total of 800-900 acres. It has been years since it was last cleaned out. So an excavator is going down the ditch cleaning out rock big and small right now.

The first day of daylight savings. It is a few minutes after 7:00 Pacific daylight time. Still dark out. I am sitting here waiting for daylight so I can go out to feed. Yesterday I was done feeding by 7:15. I don't mind daylight savings at all but the transition always screws me up for a...

This one is from yesterday. The cow kept wanting to go up on the ditch bank where that other cow calved on Tuesday. I said no calving up there where the calf can fall into the ditch. I chased her off there 3 times until she finally went and calved in the middle of the field. I have another...

It is 20 degree with 2 inches of fresh snow this morning. That in it's self doesn't bother me for calving. But I had a cow that had a calf this morning on the bank of the irrigation ditch. The water isn't running but there is a couple inches of water in the ditch. And the calf slid down into...

Wife is gone to visit her sister so I am on my own to get food. What do you do this time of the year when you want food? Go to a bull sale and get fed for free. So Harrell Hereford bull sale was today and I went. They had 150+ Hereford bulls, 30 Black Angus bulls, A bunch of registered...

I posted a picture of a bright white Charolais calf I have. I call her Snow White. I said I hope there isn't 7 dwarfs. Last night at calf check there was a new born dead calf. A closer inspection this morning there was things wrong with this calf. Including legs about 6 inches long. I hope...

Several years back Rufus the dog got some sort of weird infection in a toe. After the wife and the vet tried everything they could think of the toe got cut off. End of problem. So late in the day last Wednesday Patty started running around on 3 legs. We searched all over that leg and foot...