We have our spring calving cowherd in two large bunches now after pulling the bulls 2 weeks ago. Last week we featured some spring born calves out of the younger cow group (mostly 2yr olds and 3 yr olds). This week we have some feature calves out of the mature cow group.

Two bull calves out of Bieber Rollin Deep Y118.

A heifer calf out of Bieber Stormer Z433.

Two bull calves (above) and one heifer calf out of Bieber Rouse Samurai X22.

Heifer calves out of Andras Fusion R236.

Two bull calves out of Andras Fusion R236 both cows featured are

LJC Mission Statement P27 daughters. I think this combination works!

Three heifer calves from Schuler Endurance 2101Z.

A bull calf (above) and heifer calf (below) both out of Bieber Roosevelt W384.

Last week we pulled the natural service sires from the spring calving cows. The pairs were then moved from their small natural service sire groups into 3 large groups of pairs. The calves are really growing so far this year!  

Here's a bull calf (above) and two heifer calves (below) from Andras Fusion R236.

This pair is a GMRA Make It Easy 8226 daughter with a bull calf from Andras Fusion R236.

Two heifer calves out of Bieber Hard Drive Y120.

A Bieber H Hughes W109 bull calf out of a Hust Cheif Sequoya R336 2 year old cow. Below a Bieber H Hughes W109 heifer calf. 

A bull calf (left) and heifer calf (right) from Paringa Iron Ore E27. 

This pair is a Paringa Iron Ore E27 heifer calf out of a LSF Takeover 9943W 2 year old cow.

Two bull calfs from Bieber Rollin Deep Y118.

A heifer calf from Bieber Rushmore Y106.

A bull calf (left) and heifer calf (right) from Schular Endurance 2101Z.

A bull calf from Bieber Rouse Samurai X22 (above) and a bull calf from LSF Takeover 9943W (below).

We hope the calves and grass are growing in your area! 

  We spent the fourth at Mina Lake with a fierce beanbag tournament, fireworks and plenty of great food! 

 Ranch headquarters looks quite a bit different now since we tore down the big white silo a few weeks ago. There also used to be an old wooden grainery next to the silo that fell down this past winter in a blizzard. Here are some pictures of the demolition action!

We're still getting used to the new view! The plan is to put continuous fencing where the silo used to stand and create a more seamless loadout area.  

The wonderful weather this past week has allowed us to get a lot of acres cut & baled this past week! 

Today we pregnancy ultrasounded our replacement heifers. We AI bred these heifers on April 28th and sorted them into their natural service groups. We pulled the bulls on May 28th and combined all of the natural serivice groups into one large group. Since then the heifers have been out grazing on some rented pasture we have near Long Lake, SD. Earlier this week the guys set up our portable corrals in the pasture, and we started the morning by gathering the heifers. 

The vets brought their portable chute which we connected to our chute/alley. A catch pen was also located in front of the vets chute to hold the open heifers. The opens were given a CIDR and will be set up to get AI bred again to join our summer calving herd.

Criag Howard getting some CIDRs ready and inserting one

Dr. Dean Christianson ultrasounding and sexing the calf. The techs take a measurement of the embryo's head to determine the heifer's due date.