Sample Hill Herefords

08/09/2026

Clipping the pasture makes the little moos happy!

07/30/2026

Why eat out of the feed pan when you can eat the gate chain instead?

07/30/2026

Inside the barn

07/30/2026

When you ring the dinner bell . . .

07/26/2026

I am watching a lazy mama and a very determined heifer this morning on the barn camera. Maize is ready for breakfast, but Summer won't stand up. Maize has nursed (or attempted to nurse) on the one teat she can reach with her mama laying down. She even laid down herself at one point to try to reach another one. Then she tried to crawl under her mother's chin which is a sure sign of "I'm hungry, feed me breakfast!" All the while, Summer is just laying chewing her cud. It looks like the other calves are up and stirring. The barn will be fully up, but at 78 degrees, I bet they don't leave the fan area anytime soon. And just I as was about to turn it off to fix OUR breakfast, Summer stood up and Maize is truly happy.

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07/14/2026

Happy Cow Appreciation day! Here are a few pictures I took this morning. Flint is hogging the fan on the west side. Red got his head scratched at breakfast. The heifers all want in the barn, and Mr. Blackie is soaking up the fan on the east.

07/14/2026

I'm not really sure why we bother to tag our calves. Half of them manage to rip them out in a few days. Derek's bull calf, Gates, decided he wanted to be trendy. He wollered his around until the hole got big enough, and the tag just fell out. I wonder if he wants different jewelry or to join some exotic tribe south of the equator.

07/13/2026

This weekend felt like a "the best laid plans of mice and men" kind of weekend. Yesterday morning, Derek noticed one of our cows laying the mud. When he checked on her later in the day, she was in the same place and unable to get up on her own. It took a tractor, a long 2x4, two chains, and all three of us to get her out and back on solid ground. She wobbled around for awhile but eventually ended up in the far pasture happily eating grass. This morning, Jason and I both woke up sick (sinus, cough, allergies, whatever is making one eye run and itch constantly). Mine was a sore throat and loss of voice (I still wonder if Jason and/or Derek prays for that every once in a while???). Anyway, I went out with Derek to feed and check on Patty who we found to be down again and unable to get up on her own, on quite solid ground. Sigh, she has had a large lump on her face for a few years. At first, we thought it was an abscess, so we treated it as such. Then, we thought it was cancer, but that was almost 4 years ago. She's had TWO calves since then. We finally decided she must have been bitten by something, but the area grew slowly over time. We knew she was on borrowed time, but she was still eating and seemed to be enjoying life, until today. Today forced the decision to put her down upon us. She was miserable, and you could tell she was done. With the assistance of a couple of local friends, we put her down and got her buried. (Thank you Lord for the rain we've gotten or even a backhoe wouldn't have been able to dig that dirt.) She gave us three nice calves in her life. RIP Peppermint Patty

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06/23/2026

We had three spring calves, 1 heifer and two bulls. We named them Maize, Gates, and Flint. Maize is a ball of energy. Gates has small goggle eyes, and Flint is ALL legs.

06/23/2026

I have taken several pictures lately but not got them uploaded. Here are several of our fall heifers.