The Wheeler's Country Road

Category: Cattle

  • Still Around

    Still Around

    The Wheeler’s Country Road welcomes 2024 to the Ranch!

  • Bye Bye to Big Boy the Bull

    Bye Bye to Big Boy the Bull

    It was a sad and exciting week on the Lazy J Ranch. Big Boy the Bull has moved to a new pasture with lots of new ladies waiting for him. While Big Boy did a great job leading our herd and increasing calf production, it was time for a different direction on the ranch. Big…

  • Time Flies When You’re Having Calves!

    Time Flies When You’re Having Calves!

    It’s hard to believe that so much time has gone by since the last post where Buck and Roy were first introduced. It wasn’t long before Sven, Elsa, Cookie, Oliver, Kristoff, Bunny, Midnight, Ana, and Flower arrived to complete Crop #4. It was different with this crop. Because of the ice and snow, we lost…

  • Welcome to the Herd!

    Welcome to the Herd!

    Charlie and I knew that once the cows began calving that the size of the herd would explode. Well, that explosion began at the end of July. Since then, we have welcomed four calves to the herd. It is interesting to watch how the different cows act during pregnancy and then act as new mothers.…

  • Working and Weaning

    Working and Weaning

    Once again, it was time to work the cows and wean the calves. Charlie and Jason discussed the meds to use this time for the injections and fly control. Charlie purchased the supplies and gathered together the equipment. Jason checked over the supplies and grabbed a few more. It was a nice cool morning which…

  • And the Cow Jumped Over the…Fence!

    And the Cow Jumped Over the…Fence!

    Last weekend as I was contemplating what to write about, I was coming up with a blank. The vegetables planted in the tubs were beginning to sprout, but with so much rain the strawberries and watermelons weren’t going to be planted in the ground.The roses are blooming. The grass in the pastures is growing and…

  • Time To Garden

    Time To Garden

    Hay to grass to gardens to cows…Spring is in the air!

  • Grass Farmers

    Grass Farmers

    Sometimes ranchers consider themselves grass farmers. It’s important to have pastures that grow the best grass for your herd. Charlie and I have attended several classes on which grasses have the highest nutritional value for cattle. There is definitely a science behind forage – ask the Texas A&M Agrilife professors! Our focus this spring is…

  • New Year Surprises

    New Year Surprises

    2020 began with several surprises…

  • A Season for Everything

    A Season for Everything

    As the book of Ecclesiastes says: “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” So many things happened here on the ranch after the last post back in May. There was “a time to be born and a time to die.” We discovered that two more of our…