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Re: Just outside my front door...well almost...
« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2009, 07:18:21 AM »
wallaby or roos?


mostly we eat Roo
I have not had wallaby ( yet will work on that one ;)  )

I was meaning they are very different to anything else I have had before
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Re: Just outside my front door...well almost...
« Reply #11 on: June 09, 2009, 08:03:06 AM »
OK, my previous cattle ranch, now sold, but still wish I had it. No roos though . . .   :'(

Buttes tot he SW -


This is to the southeast -


Some of my former cows by the creek -

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Re: Just outside my front door...well almost...
« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2009, 08:15:03 AM »
Wow, open spaces!   MAYBE someday I'll beable to get some land.  I envy all you that have such property or at least access to it.
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Re: Just outside my front door...well almost...
« Reply #13 on: June 09, 2009, 09:23:19 AM »
Great pic's Path. I see why you wished you still had it.
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Re: Just outside my front door...well almost...
« Reply #14 on: June 09, 2009, 09:27:54 AM »
Nice photo's one and all.
I do love where I live, but I'd really like to visit country like that sometime.

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Re: Just outside my front door...well almost...
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Re: Just outside my front door...well almost...
« Reply #15 on: June 09, 2009, 09:34:36 AM »
Great pic's Path. I see why you wished you still had it.

It wasn't all rosy - sad thing is, you can't turn a profit on it, too small (quarter section) and we had droughts for a couple of years - not consecutive, though. The creek would dry up too, meaning you had to haul water. However, we did put in a nice garden until the GF let it get away from her and it filled with weeds. The house was poor (a 25-year old single wide trailer), and for storms, the cellar was 100' from the door. Water was crappy for people, so for drinking we had to haul from town - or pay 10 grand for access to the pipeline (the pipeline would have to go under 2 roads and the Burlington tracks).

After I sold the herd pictured, I thought of raising feeder calves, but the prices of cattle at the time had jumped from $700-$1100 for a cow-calf pair, to $1450 for a bred heifer (young female cow that has never had a calf). Now, of course, the prices are in the toilet again, but alas, I sold the land.

On the plus side, wildlife was extensive - muleys and pronghorn, coyotes on occasion, skunks, raccoons, weasels and mink, muskrats, even a fox family on the hills. And pheasants - this area is the heart of the ND pheasant country. No turkeys, though.  :'(

And I could literally walk out on the porch and shoot into the hills directly to the south (not pictured) - about a 150' tall natural berm about 200 yards south.
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Re: Just outside my front door...well almost...
« Reply #16 on: June 09, 2009, 09:37:47 AM »
Path,

For us non-ranchers what is a 'quarter section'?
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Re: Just outside my front door...well almost...
« Reply #17 on: June 09, 2009, 09:59:52 AM »
Path,

For us non-ranchers what is a 'quarter section'?

I think it's one quarter of a square mile.

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Re: Just outside my front door...well almost...
« Reply #18 on: June 09, 2009, 10:01:28 AM »
I think it's one quarter of a square mile.

I believe it's 40 acres
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Re: Just outside my front door...well almost...
« Reply #19 on: June 09, 2009, 10:06:14 AM »
Yep, just looked it up, "1/2 mile on a side, equal to about 40 acres."
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