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
Happy New Year 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
Autumn Ranch Chores
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
5 Secrets to Using Social Media for Your Ranch
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
Haying Season in Full Swing
Who’s feeling brave today? Can you handle a reality check? How many things that you’ve moaned about today are part of the life you dreamed of yesterday? I know I’m guilty of complaining about the mundane task of daily chores or the long days at times. All we need is perspective. The little agonies are just a blip in the radar of the wonderful life we’re living right now! Haying Season This past week has been a gorgeous week for haying season. We have been busy swathing, raking and ... VIEW POST
