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This Week’s Story: Pregging Cows with Dr. Jeff

There’s bears in the bottoms. It’s been established by eyewitnesses that there’s definitely two individuals that are hungrily wandering around in the willows below our house; one looks like a large boar (male) and the other like a 2-year old or yearling cub. There’s several winter-kill elk and deer scattered throughout the dense birch and willow thickets along the river, and a “bone-pile” of the occasional cow we have that’ll succumb to liver disease, heart failure or just plain old age. Caryl’s best friend Donna used to say when losing a cow on their ranch that “God saw need to feed the wild critters too.”…

Store News

Next Shipping Date: Monday, March 24th

We generally ship every Monday, holiday weeks excepting (see calendar). You’ll get a tracking number when we ship your order. UPS may initially show an extra day of transit time, but will correct late Monday night when orders hit the Salt Lake hub.

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Ranch News

While Ethan and I wanted our first lambing to be on open pasture, we had to collect ewe’s with twin lambs in a small pen for a few days, giving them time to bond with mom before turning them loose again with the rest of the herd. -Abby

Photo credit Abby Kelly.

Photo credit Abby Kelly.

These twins are sticking pretty close to mom in the open field now that they know what to do. Photo credit Abby Kelly.

It’s nice to be a single…you don’t have to share with anybody else. Photo credit Abby Kelly.

Glenn and Josh planning out where next to move the cattle to best utilize the stockpile grass. Photo credit Rose Morris.

To avoid disturbing the sensitive river bottom habitat and to keep any cattle from injuring themselves walking through the swampy ground down by the river, Josh set up these troughs for the herd to water out of. Photo credit Rose Morris.

Running pipe down to a nearby spring to pump water up to the troughs. Photo credit Rose Morris.

With everything in place it was time to bring the cattle. Here Mac is guarding the road to turn the cattle into their new paddock. Photo credit Josh Whitling.

Happy cows spreading out through the spring stockpile! Photo credit Rose Morris.

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