Our final view of the motorhome. We sold it on Saturday. We weren’t using it and it would only be declining in value, so we felt it was prudent to let it go. We will eventually buy something else, but unsure whether that will be a slide-in camper (which requires a new, beefier truck, which we need anyway), another motorhome (likely not), or a fifth wheel (maybe).
More updates later today …. It’s been a busy few days. We sold our motorhome to the folks that own the water system company that installed our filtering system (we hadn’t used it to camp in two years). So, as a part of the deal, we are getting a new water system for our house, a new drinking system for the kitchen, and a water filter system for the bunkhouse.
We have rented a bull for our heifers, but there isn’t a whole lot of action (a regular Ferdinand perhaps?), other than chewing down our grass, which has meant getting some hay to supplement their diets. Thankfully, our next-door neighbor just swathed his grass hay yesterday, so we’ll be buying up all his hay.
We are shopping for a squeeze chute and panels so we can build a corral.That way, we can just artificially inseminate them rather than host a bull, which is more expensive than insemination, something another neighbor of ours can do.
The side deck on the bunkhouse is near done, another stretch of triple digits looks behind us now.
Yea, females are phasing out the “need/desire for us males” these days. Another “job” lost to “technology”. lol
Boy……I must be way behind. I realize you have a beautiful place with room to roam…….but I don’t remember ever reading about heifers ?? What breed and what are the plans for the soon to be growing herd ?
Steve: Right??
Allan: We bought two 1yo Angus steers in May from our neighbor. Also at that time, we moved his three heifers (Angus, Charolais, and a Hereford), two that were ready to calve, to our pasture from his corral.
The two heifers calved a few weeks later, resulting in a male and female. A month after that, our neighbor decided to sell out, so we bought the three heifers and two calves.
Two weeks ago we borrowed a neighbor’s bull (Registered Angus) to breed the heifers. But, we only have three acres of pasture, so the grass has become a little sparse; now we are now having to supplement their grass. Our next-door neighbor raises hay on about four of his five acres, so we’ll be buying all of his 3-gen grass-hay and he has invited them to graze on some of his property once he gets done for the year.
However, we weren’t really prepped to manage all these cows, so we are having to buy a squeeze chute and some panels to build a corral.
Our goals? 1) to reserve our ag water-rights priority we have decided to raise some livestock (under the name Wild Hoof, LLC) and 2) to provide me with some good quality beef (Ann is allergic to the beef protein, so she can’t enjoy it) and sell the rest. We will keep the herd small for now (under 10 given our current property size). If we can or rent some additional property, we may expand the herd slightly.
No Bull?
🤣EXCUSE ME ?? YOUR 5 ACRES IS NOT THE PONDEROSA !! — YOU NEED ROUGHLY 200 ACRES TO RUN 50 COWS — I’M A VEGETARIAN SO I DONT ALLOW ANY FOOD ANIMALS ON MY WILLYS RANCH — I RAISE LIZARDS , JACKRABBITS , PRONGHORNS , DEER , BADGERS , GROUND SQUIRRELS , VOLES OR MOLES , BIGFOOTS , COYOTE , RED FOX , MOURNING DOVES , TITMICE , VALLEY QUAIL , TURKEY VULTURES , GOLDEN EAGLES , BALD EAGLES , MAGPIES , GRACKELS , CANADIAN GEESE , DUCKS , MOUNTAIN LION , BLACK BEAR , AND SCORPIONS — AND I DONT MILK ANY OF THEM !!
Brian: lol, that is no bull! hahaha …
Vernon: I wouldn’t advise trying to milk the Bear nor the scorpions.
When you learn how to inseminate your cows, make sure Ann has her camera ready.
Bill,
She ALWAYS has her camera ready, where I want it ready or not 🙂
We have a neighbor who can do it for us.
– Dave