A Fresh Start

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Big Bad Bulls

Ok well the bulls really arn't bad, but they sure are getting big. We have 6 bulls left in the pen, and these ones have been carried over to sell in the Red Deer Bull Sale in March. 5 of these bulls are paternal brothers to the $40,000 RJY Rival bull we sold at checkers.

Over the next few weeks we will continue to clip and tie these bulls up. All of our bulls are sold tie or halter broke for easy handling. Once I have a few more pictures I will be sure to post them, but for now here are a few shots of the bulls from this past weekend.

Revolution son that will sell in March

Getting Rival ready to head to Alta Genetics

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Calving 2012

Calving has officially begun at the farm with over 20 calves now. They are looking great and I will have more updates and pictures in the coming weeks. For now here is a little taste of a few of the calves.

Friday, January 20, 2012

Top 5 Looks: Emma Watson

1. Best Ever!

2. Perfect at Potter Premier

3. Beautiful in Burberry

4. Elegant in White

5. Short and Edgy

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Tie Outs Morning and Night

While we are at Farmfair we are lucky enough to be able to tie our animals outside at night. This helps to keep them healthy and it also allows us to remake the stall each night.

The crew at Northlands takes care of putting down clean straw each day for the animals to lay in at night. We then take hay out for them to eat at night.

Tie-outs during the day

At 6pm each night the barn doors open and cattle start moving outside for the night. It is pretty neat to see 500 head of cattle walking around the horse track towards the tie-outs.

While the animals are stalled there during the night they have both a halter and a neck tie to secure them in place. A neck tie is an additional rope that goes around there neck and is secured with a ring and clip. The halter is then tied to the left side and the neck robe on the right with the animal in the middle.This keeps them in place and from not getting tangled up with other animals as well as a back up measure encase one of the ropes comes undone during the night.

Tie-outs at night filled with cattle

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Christmas & New Years 2011

This year we had our first brown Christmas in a while. Jon and Crystal were in Iowa for Christmas so the holidays were a bit different this year.

We headed to the Groenveld Christmas Eve party and had a surprise visit from Santa. The next stop was at our Groeneveld Grandparents at High River. We had lots of fun in the morning, and our Uncle Dean's dog Axel had fun opening a few presents too.

On December 30th Crystal and Jon joined us for New Years and to celebrate Christmas with them. It was great to see them one last time before the big wedding in April and to spend New Years Eve together. The last time that happened was back when Crystal was in college. Dan also joined us and the 4 of us spend the night at Dan's cabin with a few other friends.