The Cowboy feeding our Bachelor Herd
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Thursday, January 23, 2025
Monday, November 27, 2023
Feeding Cattle in Western Oregon
25 Degrees this morning in Western Oregon
I am driving the feed wagon
while the Cowboy feeds off the back...
We feed each morning in 4 different locations...
We are feeding across the river
from our home place.
You can see our red barn in the distance...
The square bales can weigh up to 1500 pounds.
They eat one every morning...
These are a few of our young heifers...
Eleanor is looking directly at you.
The Cowboy kicks off the last of the hay...
The cows will consume this hay in
a couple of hours then graze on pasture
the rest of the day.
We are done in this field
and ready to go load up another bale
and feed the next group of cows up river.
When we are done feeding,
I head out to the Thread Shed
for a few hours of stitching !
Enjoy the Video:
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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,
LuAnn Kessi
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Feeding the Yearling Cattle...
When you step out our front door...
this is the view:
Just beyond the yard fence
are the yearling cattle...
The calves are weaned each November,
then we bring them here to our home place.
We like to keep them close by so
we can keep an eye on them.
They are fed each morning
and I enjoy watching them eat...
These are two yearling heifers...
Golden Delicious and Abigail
They will become replacement heifers
for our herd next year.
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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,
LuAnn Kessi
Monday, March 20, 2023
Calving Season...2023
This is one of our newborn bull calves...
I call him.....Chip
He's a chip off the old block:
He looks just like his mama !
We have several mama and baby look-a-likes
out in the field....FUN !
The first thing each morning,
we check on the expectant mama cows.
Then we begin feeding all of the cattle:
We feed in 6 different locations,
several miles apart.
This picture was taken just across the river
from our home place...
You can see our red barn in the distance.
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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,
LuAnn Kessi
Friday, February 17, 2023
Dolly's new baby calf...
Look what we found this morning when
we went across the river
to check on the mama cows:
This is Dolly with her newborn calf...
a blocky little bull calf
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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,
LuAnn Kessi
Monday, October 10, 2022
A Good Scratchin'.....
This is Black Beauty #4
Whenever she sees the Cowboy out in the pasture,
she comes up and stands by him...
patiently waiting for a Good Scratchin'
She says....oooh that feels so good !
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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,
LuAnn Kessi
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Bottle Calves...5 Years Old
Do you remember these two little guys?
Marv.....1 day old
Vern.....2 months old
In 2017 we raised Vern and Marv on bottles
Bottle Babies.....Marv and Vern
Vern is a beef calf rejected by his mother
Marv is a bull calf from the dairy
2017.......Vern and Marv.....8 months old
Just weaned from the bottle
( I think weaning was harder on me
than it was them!)
2018.....Marv and Vern 18 months old
Here are the bottles calves today: 5 years old
Just for scale to show how big he really is...
Marv is in the center with 2 full grown cows
on each side of him...
Those cows weigh 1500 pounds...
he dwarfs them and they are very large cows !
Marv and Vern today...
They are so sweet and still know
the sound of my voice
when I call them to come over for a visit.
Enjoy the Video:
Videos of Marv & Vern as baby calves:
Video of Marv sucking my fingers:
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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,
LuAnn Kessi
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Cattle Drive...
7pm....the sun is setting
it is cooling off
time to drive the cows up river to new pasture:
We are moving 25 cow and calf pairs
this evening...
They are on their way to summer pasture
and will remain there until November...
They are stringing out along the road
and traveling along at a steady pace...
8:30pm...they have arrived
and immediately begin grazing on the fresh grass.
We have 3 more herds to move this week.
Sunset....on our way home
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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,
LuAnn Kessi
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Saturday, July 9, 2022
Summer @ The Kessi Ranch 2022...
The first week of July
and we are finally getting summer weather
here in Western Oregon
Foxgloves growing by the barn...
We are making round hay bales...
Roses and Peonies blooming by the front door...
There are baby tree swallows living in the
2 story bird house the Cowboy built for me.
The chickens scratching through the iris bed.
They eat all of the slugs and bugs...
great for the flowers!
The second hay field is mowed...
I am raking....the Cowboy is baling.
Round Bale
We moved the main cattle herd to new pasture
last evening...
They are in grass up to their eyeballs...
Lots of munching goin on !
First hay field all baled up...
Queen Anne's Lace growing along the fence...
Thread Shed...
In between hay fields,
I have been stitching in here...
I finished up the machine quilting on
this warm up piece I started a few weeks ago...
I had to see if I remembered how to
stitch a feather...
It took 5 bobbins and 5 hours of quilting...
It is a 1 yard piece of hand dyed fabric:
Vicki suggested I make a tote bag...
I think there is enough for two !
We are in the 3rd hay field:
I spent the day mowing...
if you look close you can see I am
down to the middle section of the field...
I am not alone:
A fledgling sparrow is keeping me company
on the fence post...
Bye For Now...
Happy Summer 2022 !
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LuAnn Kessi
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