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Pasture Management

Pastures must be managed if you want them to provide good grass year after year.  We started with 1 horse several years ago on a 3-acre pasture and he had so much grass it was causing him problems.  So we added two bucket calves and a 2nd horse (sort-of an impulse buy).  Oops, that was [...]

2Jun2009 | Suzi | 1 comment | Continued
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Bucket Calf 101

If you have land there will be a time when you wonder if you should raise your own beef.  I’m talking two, maybe three cows.  One of the terms you will run across is “bucket calf”.  A “bucket calf” is a calf that will not be raised by its mama but instead will be fed [...]

5May2009 | Suzi | 1 comment | Continued
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No Horse Town

The legal battle between Hickman, Nebraska (yes, that really is the town name!) and Peter Rabbit, the horse, is quite possibly the biggest story hitting the area since the tornadoes of 2004.  At odds are the Scott’s and the Hickman ordinance that doesn’t allow horses within city limits.  Had the Scott’s not themselves requested the annexation to [...]

2Mar2009 | Suzi | 0 comments | Continued