Cattle and the Yeehaw Ranch

One thing Deb and I noticed immediately while on the Yeehaw Ranch was the shape the cows and calves were in. I’m telling you they all had plenty of weight and their coats were slick as glass. Shane has been continually working out the older cows and replacing them each year with some of the better heifer calves they’ve been producing, and it’s really working out well on this place. During the heat of the day, you could look into the tree lines around the cypress heads, or under big oaks out in the pasture, and they seemed to be laying everywhere. All were in just fine shape and were just really pretty calves.

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This in itself is a testament to the time and effort Dad and Shane have put into this. Today, the program they’ve been on in the continual replacement yearly of their older cows, is really beginning to reap rewards for them. You only have to ride over the place and look around to see the progress they’ve made. It’s obvious that what they’re doing is right on. As I’ve said the weather down here has been really dry. Most of the cypress heads, or swampy areas were dried up, and it also startled me at the amount of grass the Yeehaw place had, even though in an extended dry spell. Shane was telling me about how dry the front pasture coming in was, but honestly, when we pulled in, it wasn’t nearly as bad as what I expected. Deb and my place is far drier than what I’d seen at Yeehaw. Whereas our pastures were really showing the effects of dry weather, the grass literally scorched in many areas, Yeehaw didn’t seem to be anything like that. Though you could see this type of effect on the grass down there wasn’t far off, the place wasn’t nearly as dry, grass wise, as ours. Had they had rain since we’d had, I’m not sure, but I did find it amazing the grass was doing so well, while the heads had pretty much dried up. I do know though that with the rain they received Saturday evening, and again on Sunday morning, they’ll be in good shape for another week or so. More...

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