2011年1月10日 星期一

With hands cupped around his mouth

With hands cupped around his mouth


With hands cupped around his mouth, Chuck Oleen sent a high-pitched holler across the pasture, snaring the attention of critters big and small.Back Replica Submariner Rolex Kellot.Amazing selection of cartier to fit everyone's personal style.

Sensing the rancher was bearing treats -- wheat middling pellets or range cubes -- a small herd of cows, 2-month-old calves and a bull, came running to Oleen and his flatbed pickup truck.

The half owner of Oleen Cattle Co. -- with brother Glenn -- Chuck Oleen stopped by to check on a big chunk of his yearly income, grazing in a native grass pasture near Falun.

The calves were born in October and November. Still more are expected in February and March, the traditional early spring calving period in these parts.

The Oleens work year-round on their farm and ranch, but the next two months or so will rank among their busiest periods. They will battle extreme weather while making the environment comfortable for cows to give birth.

Every new life represents profit potential.

"If you don't have a good survival rate when you calve, you don't have a chance at having a good year," Chuck Oleen said.FASCINANTES Bell Ross 100% suizos.

The goal is keeping the mothers and babies out of the wind and dry.

"We just have to do what we can to look out for them," he said.

It's where it all starts

If you're in the cow-calf business, calving is "where it all starts," said Cade Rensink, district Extension livestock production agent, based in Minneapolis.chanel womenhandbags compact fluorescent light.

"This is probably the most critical time of the year for any cow-calf operation," he said."In order to make any money,american lighting is currently recognized as one of the nation's leading lighting retrofit contractors. you've got to have a calf on the ground."

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