Thanks for the great video you do I enjoy them very much. Watching you brings back memories of my dad he taught school and farmed and just like you were saying when he retired from teaching the herd improved a lot of things that you do brings back memories to me of dad and me doing dad passed away in 2016 I got a small herd of cattle myself now which I love maybe one day I can get my herd more like yours but between taking care of farm and watching your videos I have some great memories merry Christmas to you and all your family
My sons learned to carefully open presents at my parents house or Grandma would have been upset. Even as adults when they got a check in an envelope, they saved the envelope and gave it back to Grandma.
Merry Christmas to you and yours. Glad to have found your channel. We need more cattlemen like you, it’s an inspiration how you conduct your operation.
When you mentioned your cows eating hedge apples and said they were from Bois D'arc trees, I had to look that up. In northwest Missouri we call those trees Hedge trees. My cows ate hedge apples, as well. We still have two fence lines overgrown with hedge trees, a little more than a mile or so all together on the edges of one of our pastures. The tree trunks and heavier branches make fine fence posts, if you can find a straight one. They last forever. I think the oil in the wood keeps them from rotting in the ground. These trees also make good fire wood. They burn very hot and the smoke smells nice too. I found it very dangerous cutting a Hedge tree down from within a hedge row, but a hedge row can be very valuable asset to a cattle farmer. Growing up we built many miles of fences with hedge posts. During my turn on the farm (6th generation) I replaced some of the fences my Grandpa built many decades earlier. All of the fences had hedge corner, second and line posts. Some had been in the ground for as long as 50 to 70 years. I always believed they were officially called Osage Orange. Bois D'arc is a new name to me. Enough rambling from me. Nice video and have a very Merry Christmas!
Great to hear from you! Yes, hedge trees have provided fence posts and firewood for generations of us midwesterners. The place I live on now, have hedge corner posts that, I'm sure, have been in the ground for 75 years--and still show no signs of decay. It's an amazing wood. Thanks for the comments, and Merry Christmas to y'all!
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family, Jerry
@@finbarrdinneen3430 Thank you! Same to you and yours!
Wishing you and your family a very merry CHristmas and a happy new year.
Merry Christmas to you, and yours, as well!
Thanks for the great video you do I enjoy them very much. Watching you brings back memories of my dad he taught school and farmed and just like you were saying when he retired from teaching the herd improved a lot of things that you do brings back memories to me of dad and me doing dad passed away in 2016 I got a small herd of cattle myself now which I love maybe one day I can get my herd more like yours but between taking care of farm and watching your videos I have some great memories merry Christmas to you and all your family
@@michaelthomas3014 I really appreciate your comments. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and a safe new year
Merry Christmas to you, as well!
My sons learned to carefully open presents at my parents house or Grandma would have been upset. Even as adults when they got a check in an envelope, they saved the envelope and gave it back to Grandma.
@@rmiller8000 Wonderful memories!!!
Merry Christmas to you and yours. Glad to have found your channel. We need more cattlemen like you, it’s an inspiration how you conduct your operation.
@@Evan.Davenport Thanks, and Merry Christmas to you!
Merry Christmas from Mansfield Mo.
@@johnc7512 Merry Christmas to y’all, as well!
When you mentioned your cows eating hedge apples and said they were from Bois D'arc trees, I had to look that up. In northwest Missouri we call those trees Hedge trees. My cows ate hedge apples, as well. We still have two fence lines overgrown with hedge trees, a little more than a mile or so all together on the edges of one of our pastures. The tree trunks and heavier branches make fine fence posts, if you can find a straight one. They last forever. I think the oil in the wood keeps them from rotting in the ground. These trees also make good fire wood. They burn very hot and the smoke smells nice too. I found it very dangerous cutting a Hedge tree down from within a hedge row, but a hedge row can be very valuable asset to a cattle farmer. Growing up we built many miles of fences with hedge posts. During my turn on the farm (6th generation) I replaced some of the fences my Grandpa built many decades earlier. All of the fences had hedge corner, second and line posts. Some had been in the ground for as long as 50 to 70 years. I always believed they were officially called Osage Orange. Bois D'arc is a new name to me. Enough rambling from me. Nice video and have a very Merry Christmas!
Great to hear from you! Yes, hedge trees have provided fence posts and firewood for generations of us midwesterners. The place I live on now, have hedge corner posts that, I'm sure, have been in the ground for 75 years--and still show no signs of decay. It's an amazing wood. Thanks for the comments, and Merry Christmas to y'all!
Merry Christmas Rick
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
I remember also open Christmas gifts and saving the rapping paper not throwing it in the garbage also.
Enjoyed thanks
@@kerrytynes981 Thanks, so much, for watching.
I'm happy to be able to participate from Rome, Italy!! If you would like to share your funniest memory in your cattle raising career.
Happy you were able to see it live, Douglas. Merry Christmas!