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The tubs we buy come with lids. They come from Atwood’s -a regional chain farm and ranch supply store. I guess a lot of their stores don’t have enough covered storage, so they started getting them with lids. In the beginning they’d keep the lids and reuse them when you bought them, but for 2...

Sorry for your loss. Prayers for you and yours.

For sure, nothing fun about it MurraysMutts. Never thought i’d be happy about 10 degrees, but we finally made it back to there, and I kinda am. Looks like we might dip back into the single digits tomorrow night if it clears off, but at least we should be done with negatives. We hit -11 here...

We’ve been below 10 degrees since Saturday evening (hit -6 this morning) and have probably 30 more hours of it to go. Went below 32 a week ago last night, and now they’re saying it’ll be Friday afternoon before we can get back above freezing. It’s for sure a record breaker here, and honestly...

ccr, they’re turned off and won’t open. I know I can probably thaw one of them out fairly easily - usually a couple of gallons of hot tap water poured over them and they’re good to go. That one was fine til today. The other one I’ve had to thaw every day for the last week and I’m not as hopeful...

It’s stupid cold here, but so far so good I guess. Frost free faucets wrapped with heat tape froze up today, tanks with heaters are mostly froze over, but it’s thin and easy to break. Hopefully enough in the tanks to last the few head in the lots til it warms up. Thankfully, all of the cows...

That would explain a lot...

Definitely an oddity. Guess I’m in on the birthmark idea, I know it does sometimes affect hair. We kept a few daughters of a particular Angus bull we had, and they have some strange swirls. The most pronounced had a circle right in the middle of her back probably 8-9” in diameter - it looked...

You could always buy jumbo hot dogs - those come 8 to a pack, same as buns....

You could be onto something there. Though it’s usually not that extreme, sometimes the hair in white spots will be longer and finer - makes it a pain to blend together when you’re clipping show cattle that have that.

Just on the one leg? That’s a new one on me. It looks and sounds almost like the kind of hair you get with some of those spray on hair growing formulas. We’ve tried some and when the hair first starts growing on some calves it comes in kind of patchy (it does fill in eventually), and it's...

If I wanted windows I'd go to a trailer supply and get the bus type sliding windows. One of those in each side of the nose and it’d look factory.

I’ve only eaten goat roasted on spits over open flame. And there was lots of beer and barbecue sauce involved. I thought it was pretty good... Did I mention the beer and barbecue sauce???

Very sorry for your loss. You and yours are in our prayers.

Life is short - if you’re not hurting anyone else (like kids) do what makes you happy. That said I wouldn’t suggest a major commitment until you’re sure you’re ready (I’m guessing you’re not or you wouldn’t have to ask), but by all means if you want to see someone, do it.

Our method is closer to Boot Jack’s. We don’t even try to start them til they’re weaned. We hand feed them for a few days, try to spend an hour or so a couple times a day just being around them, getting them used to us - some will let you scratch them pretty soon. When they’re pretty calm...

Sorry for your loss GB

My wife and I both showed cattle when we were in school, our 24 year old showed from the time he was 5 through the fall after he graduated, and our twins who are now juniors have shown since they were 7. I can't count the number of show steers we've fed out, and sure couldn't begin to count the...

I know a couple of guys that have the wedding band tattoos - they're the only tattoo I would personally consider. I'd do it if my wife minded that I don't wear a ring, but she doesn't seem to. One or two smaller, discretely placed tattoos I don't mind, but I don't really understand the...

Every Farm Credit association will be different to deal with, just like every commercial bank. That's like saying never drive a Chevy because you don't like your local dealership. Yes, you're going to need pretty good financials to deal with a Farm Credit, but in return you're getting better...