got 8-12" of snow yesterday and it was wet wet wet good moisture keeps you busy at calving time ..

You keep the snow! I'm going here:

Raised target mound by Sharps45 2 7/8, on Flickr

We got about .2 of rain yesterday evening, then sometime before daylight it snowed just a skiff.. Awfully droughty here.

(04-09-2015, 06:19 PM)Don McDowell Wrote: We got about .2 of rain yesterday evening, then sometime before daylight it snowed just a skiff.. Awfully droughty here.

Wish I could send you some grass!!

I just hope we can get some moisture. We've still got time for grass if it'll just rain.

Altho Rick, I could always send you cows

Many years ago Don...the Hunt brothers, Stuart and Sherman owned property about 5 miles southwest of me; old gumbo type soil fit for soybeans or rice. They tried running cattle on it in the beginning.....I'm talking 10,000 acres of ground and when the rains hit they were feeding liquid! Damn cattle never gained a pound! I've seen calves drowned in a mudhole around a feed trough trying to get to the feed! Well....finally after losing enough of their investment....they brought in about 40 eighteen wheelers and loaded them up and took them up to the Hook Ranch in Montana...which the Hunts owned! Guy told me three months later that I wouldn't recognize them after that short stint up there! That damn grass up that way, and your way also looks most of the time like it's been killed off with chemical but the protein source in it is amazing! I've been all over the West....and I have never seen a bad looking head of stock!!

Hey! you can have my hail and rain falling now. High wind and green sky's with a heavy down pour.

Just had 70 mph winds go through the area and 2" hail with heavy rains. Good thing the fruit tree blossoms are late this year

(04-09-2015, 07:24 PM)Rick Mulhern Wrote: Many years ago Don...the Hunt brothers, Stuart and Sherman owned property about 5 miles southwest of me; old gumbo type soil fit for soybeans or rice. They tried running cattle on it in the beginning.....I'm talking 10,000 acres of ground and when the rains hit they were feeding liquid! Damn cattle never gained a pound! I've seen calves drowned in a mudhole around a feed trough trying to get to the feed! Well....finally after losing enough of their investment....they brought in about 40 eighteen wheelers and loaded them up and took them up to the Hook Ranch in Montana...which the Hunts owned! Guy told me three months later that I wouldn't recognize them after that short stint up there! That damn grass up that way, and your way also looks most of the time like it's been killed off with chemical but the protein source in it is amazing! I've been all over the West....and I have never seen a bad looking head of stock!!

Rick it is amazing how well they'll do on this gramma and buffalo grass. It's greening up a bit, but we're going to need some more to keep things going.