I have lived and breathed cows since I was a baby so needless to say, I love cows. Many people will say to me, but a cow is just a cow. No way! Not to me! Each one is special in there own way and some, like this one, can hold a special place in our hearts. Ginger I purchased my first heifer in 1997, AKTU 1G aka Ginger, from my grandparents. My grandparents were one of my biggest supporters of my passion for cattle ranching. They encouraged me in all aspects of ranching since ... VIEW POST
Isn’t She Just a Cow?
How We Use Rotational Grazing
Disclosure: I received some complimentary products, which are discussed in this post, from FenceFast Ltd. We strive to always maintain and in many cases continuously improve the health of the land that our cattle graze. In order to help us do this, one technique that we like to use is rotational grazing. We rotational graze some of our pastures for our cattle and most recently, for our sheep. By changing or alternating the grazing of pastures over a number of years, it is very beneficial ... VIEW POST
How to Go From Straight to Curved Horns on Cattle
You may have noticed cattle with horns that are curved and you may have seen some cattle which have horns that are not curved and instead grow upwards? So how do they get curved? Does it occur naturally? Or is something done to help the horns curve? Horned Hereford Cattle We raise Horned Hereford cattle; therefore, each calf is born with horns. We leave the horns on our bull calves and then curve the horns when the bull calf is approximately 10 months to 1 year old. We remove the ... VIEW POST
