My heifer

My heifer weighed in at 789 pounds this spring! Yes! One if the best heifers on the ranch. In the top 5. I win!

Missed the last few months

Been gone… but I am back!

I started driving the big tractors!!!!!!!!!!!!

So it’s coming to an end

Calving season is coming to a close, all the heifers finished calving about a week ago, and now there’s only about 30 cows!!!!!

My calf is doing great, she’s getting really big! And I don’t even think she’s been sick. I started trapping moles yesterday. I caught one today. I am supposed to be doing it out in the big field but I am not yet out there. Sorry I haven’t been updating as much as I should have, but I seem to be lacking in gusto :( Oh we had a 140 pound calf! And it is a girl, and she’s all black. Her mom wasn’t a big cow either, so I have a feeling her mother is feeling like she’s a feather… My favourite cow calved! Her name is M04, she’s this really fat, thick, short legged cow who is really nice <3 I just love her! But this year she had a boy so I was kinda sad… Our bull Yoda came in at a great wait! he came in at 814 pounds! He’s going to be a big boy. We also bought a new bull at a bull sale in Innisfail, he’s an Black Angus year old bull, his name is Lucy, he doesn’t like being alone, if you put him alone he goes crazy!

Pack

So there’s a pack of coyotes living on the ranch… okay well around the ranch. And it’s freakin me out! There’s like 10 of them!

This morning Dad and I tagged a calf that weighed 140 pounds! It was HUGE!!! It was all black to, and not very cute… Sorry baby

A&W

I’m losing it! Today we were out in the field tagging and all of a sudden I could taste and smell an A&W hamburger! I am sooo going crazy! So does this mean they taste really bad AND smell really bad?

Pictures and a lil of everything

So yesterday dad and I were driving around a stack and a coyote was there, we freaked it out and it bolted, but man did that surprise me!

Calving season has slowed WAYYYYY down. Like only 3 calves a day! So boring :(

Some older calves  He was hungry

 

She’s getting so old :)

FARM BOY (with his new hat) :o)

FARM GIRL

Yoda the bull

Sorry for being gone so long

Sorry for being gone so long... Had some stuff come up and couldn't get around to updating.
Lot's has been going on, yesterday was a mess, and Noah came over for a sleep over and helped dad with sick run as well.
Anyway, yesterday, there wasn't a lot of calves born, one out in the cows, and 2 in the 3 year olds.
There was 2 calves born in the heifers but they both died. One was on X110 and the other was on X31. X110 calf died because it was a little to big and it was a slow birth and she also had a full prolapse and so she couldn't get up, even worse it's a day later and she still can't get up... X31 calf died cuz of a slow birth, because it was a bit to big, but we have a sick cow and so, Jordan got the job of skinning the calf, and putting it's hide on the sick cows calf... So X31 has a calf now! Yay!
Oh and a couple days ago we cleaned off the East quarter of all the pairs cuz dad wanted to do a cut off, but Jordan and Papa missed a pair, so dad and I found it the next morning and there she was, standing in the East quarter. Both dad and I had no idea how we missed her but anyway, Dad said we were gonna try and chase her out, make our life a little easier... It was going good, we had started chasing her and we were about 80 feet from the gate when Dad says "Hop off and stay on them while I go open the gate." I was like ok and got off the quad, but the moment I stepped off the quad this cow freaked out and took off running, and it's not like I could keep up!! So dad zoomed down to the gate flung it open and then went speeding after the pair, and man after that did it turn into a rodeo! Cow going one way, calf running the other, neither of them caring where the other was going! So finally dad got the calf and put the rope around it's ankle and we started to drag the stupid calf to the gate, with the cow following. But as soon as we were within 80 feet of that gate (again) this totally random cow calf pair and a lone calf come wondering out of the 12 acres! It's like really? Why today? We ended up having to let the calf to the crazy cow go. But do you think they would run towards the gate? Not a chance! So we got the lone calf back in, but this other pair that had wondered out was in the tree's, so dad sent me after them, and what do they do? As soon as I got close, the cow took off, calf hot at her heels, and they went right past the gate, didn't even glance at it. So dad went chasing after them and let the other pair we started this story with get away. when we finally got this other pair through the gate, the one we originally wanted was long gone... So dad closed the gate, and we left, we went out later that day to chase them out, but this time we had Jordan and Papa on horses, so we thought we would win. But do you think we could find that stupid calf anywhere? NO!!! It was like looking for a needle in a hay stack. So we left and the next day the calf was back, and happy, even walked right up to the quad to say hi. Figures...

calf cow pair

   

I GOT A COW

I got a cow! From my Uncle Steve
She calved last night, she's a black cow and had a red calf! I have my own tiny heard!!!

If your a pair, go over there

Today we are moving all the pairs out of the cows and onto the 12 acres! Dad, Jordan, Papa, and I… It should go well. I hope… It’s hard to say.

I’m watching the gate, while Dad, Papa, and Jordan go and bring pairs. It’s my job to make sure there all supposed to go through the gate, make sure there all pairs…

There is almost 100 girls!!!!!!!

Lot’s of little

There was 5 calves to tag in the 3 year olds today! And 6 in the cows! But there wasn’t any in the heifers…

Dad and Uncle John have decided they wanna try and grow there own bulls. We tried last year, but it didn’t work out perfect like they’d hoped. So this year they have a whole system for picking which calves to leave bulls. And how they do this is: First they pick the cows with low birth weights, then they pick from that list which cows always have low birth weight calves. Then they give you and average on all the calves BW put together, and you get a list of about 20 or so cows… But, this is without factoring in bad bags, and the cows over all body build, plus there attitude is important. Don’t want no mean bulls round this here farm! (Wow that sounds western) The sad part is pretty much 50% of the cows on said list have already calved, and once a calf is rubbered, it’s rubbered, you can’t take it off…

Oh and that rinky dink cow who had her calf in the snow drift I went out to get yesterday, he died. Yup, dead as a door nail…. All that work for nothing! But that’s how farm life works… Sad to say…

 

And some people have wondered how big teeny is, she is only up to my knee, (And I have short legs!) and she only weighs 65 pounds! 

Cute little Teeny in action

applause please!

Well, hasn’t today been dramatic…

It all started as a dumb cow having her calf in a snow drift… So after we finished tagging we went out to go bring this calf in. There’s lot’s of frozen cow turds in the field and I’d driven over frozen cow turds before and nothing like this had happened…

Dad was on the new quad, I was driving the new/old quad, and we were going out to get the calf. Dad was way ahead of me, and I was like whatever, just driving along when BAM!!! The trailer flies a foot in the air, hit’s the ground, does a barrel roll, and stops… I was really shocked… So I backed up the quad, went to go hook the trailer back up but low and behold, I had broken the ball hitch off the quad! Great, just great… Dad was driving off, I didn’t have a phone, and I had broken the quad…. So what did I do? I got on the quad, drove it back to the farm, parked it in front of the bunk house, and went and got the old quad. Then I drove all the way back out to the trailer, hooked up, and started driving towards Dad. While I was busy fixing my mess, Dad had been tagging a calf, so he had no clue what had happened other then I had switched quads, so much to my dismay, I told him I'd thrown the trailer, AND broken the ball hitch on the quad. He didn’t say anything (Much to my surprise) and just told me the info on the calf he tagged and went on. I was amazed to say the least that he didn’t freak out at me. So I was almost to the gate going into the east quarter, and the trailer fell off the ball hitch! I can not believe my luck! First I break the other quad and the trailer, now the stupid trailer won’t even stay hitched! I backed the quad up and hooked up again, and started on my way, AGAIN… So I had made it through the gate, it was all good, other then the trailer looked like it would blow apart if I hit a bump to hard…. Driving along, when the freakin trailer falls off AGAIN!!! At this point, I was really pissed, but there’s not much I can do about that. Backed the quad up AGAIN, hooked up the trailer AGAIN, and finally made it over to the calf I had come for… And after that it went quite well…

Video by Jordan (Play without sound)

A smile for ya! Cows VERY happily heading out into pasture after the winter :)

Teeny

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