Newsletters

Hello All: BEEN THINKING ABOUT… …what our cattle go through to make it as seedstock. In past updates (if you are ever interested in reading what I’ve written in the past you can go to the https://www.icecattle.com/blogs/ ) I’ve described our system. To make it ultra-simple, we graze (not feed) our cattle (bulls and bred heifers too)...

Hello All: It’s ready! The 2021 Ichthys Cattle Enterprise Bull and Bred heifer catalog and videos are posted at https://www.icecattle.com/ and https://www.dvauction.com/video_catalogs/6544?play=1 . A GIANT thank you to Kristin, Ashley and Hannah for compiling, organizing, videoing, editing, scoring, remembering, communicating, posting, changing, fixing, printing, addressing, mailing…and whatever else I forgot. I pretty much do the yelling and they do everything else....

Hello All:   We are awaiting arrival of the lot tags so that we can send the sale cattle through the chute one more time to tag, weigh, measure and evaluate. Hannah is still working on video editing but once all of that is done, hopefully by the end of January, we will be able...

Hello All: How many of you have been making lemonade the past few years, especially this past year? I have lemon fatigue…but God is good…always good…whether we think our circumstances warrant that kind of praise or not. I’ve read before that if we spent the rest of our lives in a concrete box with no...

Hello All: Let me begin with a preg. check update: We had a conception rate of 96% on the cows and 89% on the replacement heifers…we are joyful, thankful and deeply humbled. We have NEVER had anything close to those percentages in any year in the past. I give the praise to God and credit...

Hello All: What are you willing to do to keep your cows in your herd? Forgive them when they come up open and keep them anyway? Overlook a bad udder or a mean temperament? Treat them for any malady they may have? Feed them because they are losing condition grazing on their own? Most problems...