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Post by angusrancher on Sept 2, 2019 20:55:49 GMT -6
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Post by bulltrader on Sept 2, 2019 21:11:39 GMT -6
He is having a great time. Keep him doing those things.
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Post by angusrancher on Sept 14, 2019 19:43:26 GMT -6
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Post by angusrancher on Sept 17, 2019 14:00:10 GMT -6
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Post by tcranch on Sept 17, 2019 16:29:15 GMT -6
Very nice. Twins in the first pic? How many bales you end up with?
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Post by angusrancher on Sept 18, 2019 6:30:17 GMT -6
Very nice. Twins in the first pic? How many bales you end up with? Thanks. The first one, he's just being a Benie Sanders socialist. Angus are hell for robbing, even some of the cows. That millet only made 2.5 bales per acre. Maybe a little better if you don't count in the low spots that were too wet to plant. It was a tough year to get things done timely, with the weather, flooding, etc...had some Barnyard grass in it, and the urea spreader from the co-op had issues. We got our own hydraulic driven one, now.....if it'll just work right with the gps. |
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Post by tcranch on Sept 18, 2019 17:56:01 GMT -6
Very nice. Twins in the first pic? How many bales you end up with? Thanks. The first one, he's just being a Benie Sanders socialist. Angus are hell for robbing, even some of the cows. That millet only made 2.5 bales per acre. Maybe a little better if you don't count in the low spots that were too wet to plant. It was a tough year to get things done timely, with the weather, flooding, etc...had some Barnyard grass in it, and the urea spreader from the co-op had issues. We got our own hydraulic driven one, now.....if it'll just work right with the gps. Bernie!  Did you plant pearl or German millet? Friends of our have always planted pearl but couldn't get any this year so went with the German. Two fields left to cut but they're getting pretty nervous about having enough hay for the winter. As much rain as we've had, it came in pretty sparse. We ended up doing very will with the brome this year. And we have a dinky 15 acres that was planted in Bermuda a couple years ago and never really took BUT ended up getting 46 bales of Bermuda/prairie off it a couple weeks ago, 2nd cutting. The cows will pick at it, may use some for bedding, may sell to a horse guy that always wants bales. Tore it up and re-planting alfalfa. |
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Post by angusrancher on Sept 18, 2019 20:09:08 GMT -6
Thanks. The first one, he's just being a Benie Sanders socialist. Angus are hell for robbing, even some of the cows. That millet only made 2.5 bales per acre. Maybe a little better if you don't count in the low spots that were too wet to plant. It was a tough year to get things done timely, with the weather, flooding, etc...had some Barnyard grass in it, and the urea spreader from the co-op had issues. We got our own hydraulic driven one, now.....if it'll just work right with the gps. Bernie! Did you plant pearl or German millet? Friends of our have always planted pearl but couldn't get any this year so went with the German. Two fields left to cut but they're getting pretty nervous about having enough hay for the winter. As much rain as we've had, it came in pretty sparse. We ended up doing very will with the brome this year. And we have a dinky 15 acres that was planted in Bermuda a couple years ago and never really took BUT ended up getting 46 bales of Bermuda/prairie off it a couple weeks ago, 2nd cutting. The cows will pick at it, may use some for bedding, may sell to a horse guy that always wants bales. Tore it up and re-planting alfalfa. Brome is tough and can make some good hay if it's cut kind of early. Glad it worked for you. What they're baling is Golden German, haven't tried Pearl. Have done some White Wonder.....and it's the same deal here. Everything was just so late, and it wouldn't warm up or dry up. Way late getting the first cutting alfalfa up. Most of the wheat drowned out, or was just very poor. I had posted something about making the decision to get out of wheat and spending the next few years expanding our cow/calf/yearling operation. I hope the boys don't get tired of putting up hay. That will be the key, and calving out a lot of heifers. Moved the calving date for the mature cows to April 11, as the worst blizzards have been prior to that, generally. Last calving season was absolutely brutal. Had up to 100 new pairs in the barns during the worst, and cut fences so other cows with a little older calves could go into shelter belts. Death loss could have been way worse, but was bad enough. |
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Post by tcranch on Sept 19, 2019 6:36:43 GMT -6
Bernie! Did you plant pearl or German millet? Friends of our have always planted pearl but couldn't get any this year so went with the German. Two fields left to cut but they're getting pretty nervous about having enough hay for the winter. As much rain as we've had, it came in pretty sparse. We ended up doing very will with the brome this year. And we have a dinky 15 acres that was planted in Bermuda a couple years ago and never really took BUT ended up getting 46 bales of Bermuda/prairie off it a couple weeks ago, 2nd cutting. The cows will pick at it, may use some for bedding, may sell to a horse guy that always wants bales. Tore it up and re-planting alfalfa. Brome is tough and can make some good hay if it's cut kind of early. Glad it worked for you. What they're baling is Golden German, haven't tried Pearl. Have done some White Wonder.....and it's the same deal here. Everything was just so late, and it wouldn't warm up or dry up. Way late getting the first cutting alfalfa up. Most of the wheat drowned out, or was just very poor. I had posted something about making the decision to get out of wheat and spending the next few years expanding our cow/calf/yearling operation. I hope the boys don't get tired of putting up hay. That will be the key, and calving out a lot of heifers. Moved the calving date for the mature cows to April 11, as the worst blizzards have been prior to that, generally. Last calving season was absolutely brutal. Had up to 100 new pairs in the barns during the worst, and cut fences so other cows with a little older calves could go into shelter belts. Death loss could have been way worse, but was bad enough.I'm sorry about that. We lost a few frozen newborns in March, when it typically isn't that bad for our area. The brome was pretty thin last year but really took off this year. Plus we graze the weanlings & retained heifers on it until March. |
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Post by angusrancher on Sept 19, 2019 18:32:28 GMT -6
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Post by tcranch on Sept 20, 2019 7:58:15 GMT -6
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Post by angusrancher on Sept 21, 2019 6:13:02 GMT -6
I love the pics of the cellar! And the history. We have a subterranean structure by the house that was built probably in the 1800's and appears to have been lived in. Found a "Welcome" sign next to the entrance while we were building our house and it is now part of the hearth on the downstairs fireplace.    www.flinthillshelters.com/projectinfo.html Thanks. That piece you used in your hearth, and the other stone structures are pretty amazing, considering the lack of modern tools they didn't have to build with. Very cool. ![]() |
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Post by chuckie on Sept 24, 2019 9:20:35 GMT -6
Wow, that cellar is really neat on the inside. Who ever built it, put a lot of work in it. That is pretty neat to have on your property. I bet when it gets hot outside, the cellar is cool. I love old things from the past and seeing what others created while they were on this earth. It makes me think about what their life was like and would I have liked them. Great pictures!!
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Post by tcranch on Sept 24, 2019 18:26:39 GMT -6
Wow, that cellar is really neat on the inside. Who ever built it, put a lot of work in it. That is pretty neat to have on your property. I bet when it gets hot outside, the cellar is cool. I love old things from the past and seeing what others created while they were on this earth. It makes me think about what their life was like and would I have liked them. Great pictures!! It is cool in the summer. But if you zoom in you can see a hearth/fire pit on the north end so must have kept them pretty warm in the winter. Not that I'd ever want to endure the hardships of previous generations but they were truly innovative for their time and I admire that! |
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Post by greybeard on Sept 25, 2019 14:40:46 GMT -6
Somewhere deep in a box of 100s of other photos, I have a picture of a dugout 'house' near Palo Duro Canyon, if not actually in the canyon wall itself.
I stepped in it and it was anything but warm and water dripped from the overhead. Dark dank and slimy. (It was winter and there was snow on the ground)
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