Winter Pictures

Took the camera along today feeding cattle. Last week or so we have recieved two foot+ of snow with more comming tonight. Also been very cold, was -19 last night and about -12 when I took these pictures. I feed the cattle up on the hill and have them divided into two herds of about 90 each.
This is the home place herd.
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After being hayed.

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Upper place herd.
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Going to have to get the blower out soon as the snow will be too much for even the MFWD.

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A view of the valley and building sites.

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Replacement heifers and a few smaller steers mixed in eating morning grain.

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Nice Photography !!! cattle look great against that white snow.

We get pictures of the hood, but not of the whole tractor? I figgure with that hood its probably a new 30 series Deere. I am going to guess its a 6430. Then again it might be a 5025 series instead.

I can't wait for summer again.

Where in MN are you? I'm from Detroit Lakes. We got a lot of snow and cold weather too.

I like the Hereford cows in the picture.

When I was younger we had Hereford cows but switched to black cows along the way.

Everyone wanted Angus beef. So we switch to get a higher price for our cattle.

Don't know if it was worth it or not. Those hereford cows were tough old girls.

Gary

Looks like you are gettin er done in good shape and you got some good looking stock. Here in cen Il we havent had much snow but have had alot of cold weather and now we have a heck of a layer of ice to deal with. We have had enough bad weather for a whole winter allready. Today we should get 2-4 inches of snow with wind. Just waiting for daylight to go start on morning chores. Afternoon chores could happen early today.
bill

Nifty photos! I like the Herfords, too. The one in the "upper herd" with the all white head and ears (on the extreme left of the photo) caught my eye. Is her head and ears all white on the other side, too? The straight "neck line" is interesting.

Very nice! I really appreciate you guys who can work and take pictures too! I could almost handle that, but then getting them into the computer and arranged on a website exceeds my capability!
Looks like home(central NY state),except for the sunshine. Here in the lee of the great lakes,if it's not lake effect snow, it's lake effect clouds. And that's just one more element to add to the cold and wind that puts me over the edge. Grrrrrr....
What are the green and yellow pieces buried in the snow? The green looks like a tongue. Hope your tires are OK.
Merry Christmas

My grandma was from DL . She worked for Clayton and Kathy Blacknick, sp . They had a big reastruant there ,not sure of the name . Nice area .

Nice pics. There's nothing more peaceful than watching a herd of stock cows.Jim

They are all bred to black bulls. The red ones are being phazed out. Buyers want black hair around here to. The black baldy calves do well on feed, better than straight hereford or angus. Also baldy mother cows don't have the Hereford "problems, cancer eye, prolapse, broken down udder" when crossed with angus. I'am located in SEMN near Preston. Dachshund, I think that is a glare from the windshield glass. That cow, I think is a "Blue Roan" She's black with a lot of white in her. This herd still has a little shorthorn blood in it from when grandpa used to milk a long time ago and it shows up from time to time in a roan cow with a lot of white in her coat.

Its a 7130.

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Think it is an arm on an unroller.Looks like he is backing in to pick up a bale with the unroller.

Nice looking spread. Cattle look good. Aren't "black baldys" the cattle that the "Horse Whisperer" raised in the movie?

Larry in Michigan

Oh wow, I was fooled, your tractor is bigger than I thought. Super nice tractor!

My mother's mother inherited an 800 acre farm near Detroit Lakes in the late '40's, and wanted to give it to my folks (dad was a farmer). Mom nixed the deal- told grandma that if she did, it wouldn't be in the family anymore, as she would divorce dad before moving back there. So grandma gave it to a nephew, I think.

Nice pictures. What kind of unroller is that? It sure does a nice job.

Beautiful Place. Thanks for sharing.

I'd love to have an un-roller for feeding out 134 cows. Is it pretty easy to start unrolling? Do you cut the twines from the back window of the cab? What about when you get down to the bale core...do you just drop the core where it quits unrolling? I'd appreciate any input. Thanks!

I net wrap all of my hay. I set the bales to be fed on end and slice the wrap and remove it from all the bales at once. Makes a little more work but well worth it in saved hay and baling time unless there is a ice storm than thats another story. I make 5X6 bales that weigh 1200 to 1500+. They unroll very easy but you have to go reverse the way they were baled or back the tractor to unroll. The unroller I'am using was sold by Deere in the 90's for a short time. I bought it on a auction sale a few years ago. With the arms being upswept it will only unroll the bales down to 2 foot or so. There is always a hill here so I always dump them on a hill and the cows finish unrolling the core.

Here's a little better picture of it on my old maxxum.

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I also have this old unroller dad had built in the mid 70's. I use it on the old 706 in the spring when the other tractor is planting or as a backup in case the green ones computer throws a fit. It is built like a tank but has been rewelded many times. I like it in the spring tho as it will roll the bales out to just the very center core. Much better on soft ground. I know Worksaver makes a unroller yet but they are built to light for my heavy bales but would work fine for lighter or smaller bales. I have and my dad before me have always fed hay by unrolling it. On frozen ground I feed about 10 bales every other day, always in a new area so the cows spread their own manure. When it gets soft in the spring I feed every day on the north still frozen slopes, when they thaw the south slopes are usually firm by then.

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