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Explain why sire/daughter is genetically different than dam/son please? Don’t both combinations have the same shot of 50/50 genetic influence? Or are you saying the sire/daughter breedings potentially affect more total animals, therefore more chances for strange happenings?

Are buzzards nocturnal? Sucks no matter how it died

We had solid blue skies and could hear the Sandhill cranes flying overhead. One of my favorite parts of spring-trying to see those big old birds in a clear blue sky-usually I see them once they are well past me. The white on their wings finally shows up.

Wait-they had scours, you treated, and now constipated? What about a probiotic and some fluids to get things moving?

Picking up pecans with 23 windchill-got 1/2 of a 5 gallon bucket from 1 tree before my face froze

Happy Thanksgiving from the hospital-my mom (who has aphasic dementia) had a brain bleed on Tuesday afternoon. God’s grace is that because of her brain atrophy from the dementia, the space taken by the bleed is not as debilitating as it would have been if her brain was “normal”. Count every...

I thought he said he had mowed? Otherwise crabgrass maybe? Sure reminds me of mowed Bahia

that’s Bahia grass-the clumpy grasses at least.

Do you have other cattle or why did you get a bull? Is this supposed to be a show calf? Do you have an option of putting a bovine buddy with him?

I think the seedless varieties are technically considered GMO. Hard to find seeded watermelon commercially anymore

California is the best example…

For those who do use sale barns heavily, would you be able to post pictures of “plain” vs #1 or higher end animals from the next sale you go to? (Or just from a pasture drive-by).

Is this one of those “don’t leave until they sell” lessons that we all dread?

They were in row(s).

I actually took out a flock of ducks that were walking in the road-hauling a horse, came around the corner and there were the ducks. It was them or me-they lost. I looked back and saw duck feathers and rolling ducks. Felt bad. Chickens cross roads, not ducks…

Need to stretch their necks-I’m sure it gets boring eating head down all the time

That makes sense. My dad said that that’s how they used to do it because of screwworm.good reminder

I suppose the fact that it isn’t used much should be all the explanation needed. Thanks all

How old were they?

Have a cow that saw her new calf walking toward the hotwire and jogged to get between the Hotwire and the calf…