EP: 413 What Happens in Winter When You Double Your Cattle Herd

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

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🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This past week we were running our cattle herd through the system for getting tags (which helps track lineage), castration and overall wellbeing. Having a larger operation has meant some changes for these practices. If you’re thinking about raising cattle, I highly recommend you listen to today’s podcast as I’m sharing some of the differences between owning one, nine or 20+ head of cattle. I also discuss the differences between banding or cut castration and why we switched. For more information and any links mentioned in this episode, visit melissaknorris.com/413.

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0:00.0	If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them,
0:06.4	I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make
0:16.2	sure that you are registered and signed up for our herbal summer series. This is completely free, though you definitely could charge for it because it is
0:28.2	packed with information. Once you sign up starting in August, every week you are going to get an email from me going over my top 10 favorite herbs.
0:40.0	Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb,
0:47.8	but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
0:56.9	We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses.
1:02.1	So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by
1:06.2	that point in your medicine cabinet my favorite top 10 herbs to always have at the ready. Go to Melissa K Norris.com forward slash
1:18.2	summer herb and make sure that you get registered. Summer school is in session and it has never been better. Hey pioneers. Welcome to episode number 413. Today we are going to be
1:36.1	chatting about what things look like at the end of the year, very end of fall,
1:40.8	beginning of winter, when you are running a cattle herd, and then what we are up to right now, as well as plans for next year.
1:50.4	So it's kind of like what's going on in the life of Hopestead. I had shared on
1:58.0	Instagram last weekend we were running our cattle through the system for getting ear tags just kind of your
2:06.8	management of the herd when our herd was a lot smaller where we only had three cows
2:12.0	that we were breeding back so that usually meant
2:14.5	about nine cattle in the herd total so you have your three cows that are getting
2:19.0	bred every year and then you've got their three babies that are as yearlings and then we butcher at two years old.
2:25.0	So we would have, as you can see, three cows,
2:29.0	three babies, three two-year-olds, that's going to equal nine cattle.
2:32.8	And that's been about the size of our herd, give and take.
2:36.1	We've kind of flirted as we have brought our fertility of our pasture up,
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