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I do declare it’s always something! We check herds thru the week but always see them all on Sundays. This heifer was slo...
06/01/2026

I do declare it’s always something! We check herds thru the week but always see them all on Sundays. This heifer was slow coming up when called and we could tell she was lame. We couldn’t assess what exactly was going on until we got her out of the tall pasture grass and then it was like, HOLY SMOKES! We’d rotated them grazing thru one of our old oilfield places that we had done grazing reclamation on and this collared thread protector for drill pipe was exposed for her to step just correctly into it. Poor girl! John’s very steady hand with a grinder cut thru the collar so he could remove it. Wound treated, antibiotics given along with some extra treats for being such a good girl for us to get her seen to. Keeping her in pens close by for monitoring over next day or so. Hoping we caught it in time with no long term damage to her hoof area.

March 20th, first day of spring. When hopes spring eternal with promises of all things new: gardens planted, early flowe...
03/21/2026

March 20th, first day of spring. When hopes spring eternal with promises of all things new: gardens planted, early flowers blooming, fields of seeded crops sprouting fluorescent green and spring calves!
For days Nellie has been in our maternity ward. We knew time was drawing near as she was exhibiting signs and oh so uncomfortable. Wee hours of the 20th we saw on the barn camera her laid out like this and had us rushing to the pens but no, not yet. At 9:30am her water broke. Let her naturally progress for an hour but things just were “off”. She willingly cooperated with John to get into chute so he could palpate and assess situation. There was a head, just no feet/legs because they were folded back underneath calf! John worked, worked and worked for over an hour trying to push, pull, reposition calf until he was flat worn out and had no feeling left in his arm (if you’ve ever inserted arm into cow’s birth canal and they’re contracting with labor, well it gets tight). Calls are made to local vets. No one available for farm call but if can load her and bring in, can be seen to. Thankfully Nellie has been a real trooper to this point and did indeed load into trailer and we made a run into Brownwood. At this point we had to wait on vet as he was busy with another surgery, and by this time we are resigned that with the time that’s elapsing will have a dead calf but hope to save Nellie. It was a very hard repositioning and assisted pull, but almost 4 hours later an ALIVE calf was delivered. Both are home and doing amazingly well.
Meet PETUNIA, a spring name meaning resilient because she beat the odds.

Christmas presents come in all forms and the best one we all had this year was a live birth! Chick-O-Stick (Brian and Ma...
12/29/2025

Christmas presents come in all forms and the best one we all had this year was a live birth! Chick-O-Stick (Brian and Marla’s heifer) was due so we’d had her in pens near us checking every couple to three hrs thru each day. Of course being heifer it’s a crap shoot when she was to calve. John did middle of night checks and I did early predawn ones. We knew she was getting close on Christmas Eve. All day on 25th nada. When I cked on a.m. 26th pretty sure her water broke or maybe it was just a big p*e cause then nothing happened except extreme discomfort. John called two vets and of course no one available for ranch call. Brian said wait and watch. We had early lunch. Marla walked out with kids and texted she was down and seemed to be having contractions. John palpated her cause nothing was presenting. He found feet but no head (it was flipped backwards over body). For 1.5 hrs he and Brian worked with chains and hip jack to get calf out. After 30 min we were resigned to delivering calf however necessary to save cow. Unbelievably they finally were able to push calf BACK IN far enough that John could flip its head forward, then held it in place between front legs while Brian used jacks to pull it into birth canal and out. It was alive!!! We cleared its airway, hung it upside down several times to help clear lungs, roughly rubbed it for stimulation. It was shaking like crazy and neck severely bent due to way it had been positioned. Didn’t know if it had brain damage, seizures or what. They got mom up, John milked her and tube fed baby some colostrum and gave her a dose of gut paste. Did this twice over couple hours. That evening we found calf up and nursing! She’s been fine and getting stronger everyday since!!!
Maddie is adamant her name is Christmas Baby!

Calves on the ground! Hitting in every pasture but these are out of first time heifers we keep close to home for monitor...
12/18/2025

Calves on the ground! Hitting in every pasture but these are out of first time heifers we keep close to home for monitoring. We’ve had one assist and one natural. Will see what Chick-O-Stick requires. John pulled middle of night checks and I’ve done early morning. She’s bagged and progressing. Hopefully will calve in light of day for us, sure makes it easier!

Making rounds to see all the herds. Our heifer herd bull Sonny was hand fed from a calf by John so he still gets extra t...
11/27/2025

Making rounds to see all the herds. Our heifer herd bull Sonny was hand fed from a calf by John so he still gets extra treats, especially on Thanksgiving Day from John. Topping off the liquid feed tubs cause they all heartily enjoy that, as evidenced by multiple stains on the white faces.

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