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I think there is quite a lot of misunderstanding as to what having a “maternal” herd means. Too many of us strive to have one type of bovine that “does it all”. All breeds have an abundance of practitioners of this philosophy. If you are so afflicted, most likely nothing you read here will...

It's not always this pretty in early March, but thought I'd share this picture from yesterday. I think it got up to 60 degrees! Sorry for the big photos, but don't know how to resize them. I'm lucky to even get them posted! We will have some short videos of the yearling heifers available on...

I haven't had a chance to look at SP at all this summer. Fall is a great time of year for me as the pace slows a bit! I was able to take the video camera out yesterday and capture the bull calves on pasture. We haven't had any rain to speak of this summer. The irrigation pumps (and the...

On my way home yesterday afternoon I stopped by the heifer pasture to check on the replacements and took a few pictures. They were feeling pretty sassy, but finally settled down enough to stop playing. The heifer calves have been weaned about 4 weeks now and are over their stress. The coming 2's...

We weaned over the weekend. It was a beautiful day. Watching the cattle come up through the coulee to the corral was picturesque, so I thought I would share.  I took this video with my phone, so it's not the best. You may want to turn your speakers down, as it was pretty noisy...

A friend of mine who was recently reported to be sipping "cactus juice" on a beach somewhere south of the U.S. border, visited our website recently and noticed this opinion piece I wrote. He thought it might be an interesting topic for discussion on Steer Planet. LET ME BE CLEAR- I'm not trying...

I didn't want to hijack Coyotes post about his truly nice set of Shorthorn x's, so will put this under a different thread. I took the camera along tonight when I went to check on the heifers water situation. Their only source is a small creek that's been frozen over for a couple weeks. Most of...

I took some pictures today when checking the cattle, and thought I'd post a few. They're in their working clothes, so a bit dirtier and less well posed than you'll see in the glossy sale catalogs! The calves were weaned about 3 weeks ago. These dams will be going into winter in good shape...

I thought I'd post one of "Easy's" daughters on here. I had to turn the cows in on some hay ground a couple weeks ago due to lack of rain. Of course, we got some rain last week just when some other hay was getting ready to bale! This bull calf is sired by "YY Duke of Earl 186Y". He is "YY Duke...

I thought I would try to post some video links of Coalpit Creek Leader 6th (AKA "Easy"), some of his calves, and his 2 year old daughters and their calves that are sired by YY Duke of Earl 186Y who is the young bull in the video. Our cattle winter on grass hay, (this year we have some winter...

After running across Dan’s post about the new $ values that the Shorthorn Association is using, I thought I would post some pictures of one of our bulls mentioned. This is Coalpit Creek Leader 6th. We call him “Easy” due to his fleshing ability as well as calving ease. He also has a very gentle...