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Boy Petting Hereford Cow

Isn’t She Just a Cow?

July 18, 2021

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

Filed Under: Cattle, Ranch Life Tagged With: cattle, Cows, ranch kids, ranch life

Difference on pastures between ungrazed vs grazed

How We Use Rotational Grazing

June 28, 2021

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

Filed Under: Cattle, Ranch Life, Sheep Tagged With: sheep management

Horn weight on a yearling horned hereford bull

How to Go From Straight to Curved Horns on Cattle

June 26, 2021

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

Filed Under: Cattle, Ranch Life Tagged With: cattle horns, horn weights

Heifers eating grain at trough on BC cattle ranch

Happy New Year 2021

January 20, 2021

Happy New Year! Hope you had a safe and wonderful holiday season. Thank you to all of our customers for your continuous support. We had a very successful 2020 and we are looking forward to this year! Raise your hand if 2020 looked anything like the plans you made for it at the end of last year! Yeah? Us neither. But you know what? We learned adaptation is the key to making it in an ever-changing world.  Stocked Up On Beef During the holidays, we had a fun family drive to pick up more ... VIEW POST

Filed Under: Ranch Life Tagged With: beef, feeding calves, ranch life

Our autumn ranch chores include hauling cattle home, weighing calves, updating CattleMax, feeding the ewes, and enjoying the beautiful weather. #ranchchores #autumnranchchores #weighingcalves #cattlemax

Autumn Ranch Chores

October 6, 2020

The perfect autumn afternoon is walking through the cattle on the hayfields and taking photos with my boys. The brilliant colours, the crisp mornings and the beautiful sunsets are just a few of my favourite things about autumn on the ranch. What are your favourite things about autumn? Over the past couple weeks, we have been hauling cattle home, weighing calves, updating our cattle management software program, starting to get our ewes ready for breeding, doing our weekly beef ... VIEW POST

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Social Media for Your Ranch. Here are my 5 tips for effectively using social media to increase awareness of your ranch and in turn help increase your sales.  #socialmediamarketing #cattlemarketing #ranchmarketing

5 Secrets to Using Social Media for Your Ranch

October 5, 2020

Are you wanting to get your ranch brand recognized? Maybe you are direct marking beef in your community? Or maybe you are selling purebred cattle and what to get your ranch name out there to breeders  Have you been posting to social media and you are hearing crickets? Let me give you my 5 tips for effectively using social media to increase awareness of your ranch and in turn help increase your sales.   Be Consistent on Social Media Posting consistency is the most important tip when you ... VIEW POST

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This cow ❤️ She keeps impressing us every year This cow ❤️ She keeps impressing us every year! She was definitely not the prettiest as a calf, but she has sure grown into a very beautiful and productive cow. And this steer calf….wow! He is going to be in the pen of show steers this fall to choose from!
Ranching often has lots of variety in our days. Ye Ranching often has lots of variety in our days. Yesterday was no exception. Haying season is now complete, we just need to haul the bales of hay into our hay stacks! The boys are continuing to work their animals every day and we even took the opportunity to go to Edith Lake for a kayak!
Where would you go if money was no object? If I co Where would you go if money was no object? If I could be ANYwhere right now, I’d choose home as I’m perfectly content right where I am on the ranch in Knutsford, because I LOVE being here to ranch with my family! Your turn!  If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose?
Healthy animals are a priority to us. When we do Healthy animals are a priority to us.  When we do our summer pasture checks on the cattle, we check to make sure that the cows, calves and bulls are all healthy.  We can easily do this by walking through them quietly.  Our cows are quiet enough that they will usually not be disturbed when we walk through them. We also watch to see if the bull is interested in any cows, also known as cycling.  As the summer proceeds, we want to ensure that we are seeing less, or preferably no, cows that are cycling.  Link in bio to read more about our summer pasture checks.
We have our sheep sheared every year by a shearer. We have our sheep sheared every year by a shearer. Sheep shearing is the process by which the woollen fleece of the sheep is cut off, it’s basically a sheep haircut. In the past, we haven’t kept the wool. However, this year we decided that we wanted to make use of it, so we are looking at getting some wool processed. We would love to hear from you about what you would be interested in. Are you looking for batts, rovings and/or yarn?
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