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Congrats Dave - ya'll have a NICE operation there. I do have to ask - 2,000 acres for 90 head of brood cows? I'm from "back east" where we had only a couple acres per brood cow, but plenty of hay for winter feed.
 
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Thanks guys!

Ken H> said:
Congrats Dave - ya'll have a NICE operation there. I do have to ask - 2,000 acres for 90 head of brood cows? I'm from "back east" where we had only a couple acres per brood cow, but plenty of hay for winter feed.
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Yeah we don't feed at all. Our stocking rate is pretty high for around here in the west but we don't feed at all except on the rare occasion where we have really heavy snows that last for weeks. Our ranch has a lot of mountainous broken terrain and so usually depending on winds etc there will be some open ground during a snow that they can feed on. We intentionally run at about 70 percent of our stocking rate. That way we don't have to sell cattle every time it doesn't rain around here like a lot of folks do. Its not been raining much this year and we've only had 6.28" to date although its raining this morning, (thats 6.28" since Oct 1st, the water year runs from Oct 1 -Sept 30). Keeping fingers crossed, we need more, lots more. Speaking of stocking rates I was talking to a rancher in NM a few weeks back. Their stocking rate is a pair (cow/calf) per about 400 acres. Thats why some ranches in the west are so huge.

Richard338 said:
Very nice. I see they made the creative choice not to use your castration photos...
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Ya mean like these:

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Interestingly their photographer was intrigued by the whole ranch deal and wants to come out when we do our spring works in Apr. To her credit she kept having Nichole and I ride up and down these different hills to get the shots she was looking for and she trotted up and down too. It was about a 2 hour photo shoot.
 
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