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Here's the back story. My favorite Jersey cow Daphne is 13, she would be 14 if she calved again. She has always lived on the ranch and had 7 calves by Black Angus bulls. All were black or nearly black. While I was gone to Oregon in 2016 a fire burned onto the ranch and she and the rest of the...

I have 6 pet hens. Some have lived to the age of 12. Those were Aracauna green egg laying chickens. They still laid occasional oddly shaped eggs, but heck, they were eggs. Now I have some coming Aracauna 3 year olds now and have added 3 tame and friendly Barred Rocks. I give the eggs away to...

I guess people have heard about this. The H5N1 Bird flu from last year that caused massive depopulation of poultry farms all over the world is still around. Now it's spread to dairy herds first in the Texas panhandle, then New Mexico, Kansas, Minnesota, and Idaho. The infected cows are 10% -20%...

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I have two Jersey cows on green pasture, grass hay with 1 lb of 20% cattle cubes a day. I had High Magnesium Wind and Rain out free choice in the pasture and they occasionally ate some. It says on the bag cattle need 4 oz, per day. When I moved the container into the barn breezeway because of...

I'm adding a 40 plant table grape vineyard. I've got 7 varieties, I grew them from cuttings last year. Have to build trellises. After all that work I will certainly be cranky

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This is in Serbia. Look at the horns on these Podolian cattle. 97 cows, 40 calves and 70 horses were brought home from flooded islands on a barge. These hook and toss horns could hook and toss a bear. Didn't the ancient Aurochs have horns like this...

My husband gave me a big new Magic Mill food dehydrator. It has 9 shelves. New jar lids and bands are just too ridiculously expensive so I'm drying the garden produce this year. So far I've dried apple slices, pears, Italian plums and tomatos. It is surprising how good dried tomato slices are...

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I have cattle and also a pet lizard. To feed this lizard every few days I go out with an aquarium fish net and catch a netfull of hornflies off my Jerseys to feed the lizard. I select an area of dense hornflies on their hide and pop the flies over it with the net. The Jersey cows are used to...

I live in rural Oregon after leaving Texas. My Dodge Ram truck is 9 years old. About a year ago I stopped washing it and cleaning out the interior. It is said that cowboys only get their trucks washed whenever it rains. What age and model of your truck did you stop washing your truck it or...

I let my English pea vines get away from me. Today I pulled the vines up out of the grass, harvested the whole lot and shelled out 2lbs. They are big ole tending toward starchy peas, not the tender new peas I picked before. Should I pressure cook them? What?

I has clipping sticker weeds in the pasture and I heard the thunder of hooves. Over the crest of the hill black Arago came flying, prancing, nostrils flared and blowing out snorting breaths. Tail flying like a banner, neck arched, head high with his huge antelope eyes. He came to see what it...

Its the middle of June and no little green tomatos. The plants are big and healthy in their tomato towers They were planted in soil with compost and a little lime mixed in, watered and fertilized properly, they have no blights or diseases They are covered with yellow flowers that don't drop...

It's not a complicated CMT paddle test where you swirl milk around with some chemicals. It's a card. You You just squirt some milk from each quarter on the colored dots and if positive it changes color. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007OUJWXA/?tag=cattletoday00-20

Back three lactations ago we found Daphne on the ground unable to get up after delivering a big bull calf. Due to inexperience we thought it was from a dystocia, a difficult birth. She was down for three days. We kept water and hay in front of her, turned her every six hours and propped her up...

Here is a pleasant milking barn video made on a family farm. They are separately milking colostrum from a fresh cow to feed her calf using an old timey Surge milking machine. I bought one of these yesterday. Also, it's to keep any antibiotic residues from the Tomorrow teat infusions given at dry...