From the Rancher’s Porch: Calving Season and God’s Design

As I sit and ponder the upcoming season, a sense of worry and wonder comes upon me. Not in worry that the common world knows it’s much simpler. My mind goes to the supply of 8-way, mineral supplement paste and having enough applicators. Is the calving bucket full of needed items? Is the 4wheeler full of gas and are the flashlights charged? Do we have enough ear tags for the new calves?

I check the weather forecast for the sixth time today just to see if it may have changed, hoping that what I see is true and stays that way. My worry goes to the large group of heifers that are to be calving first. Is # 37 going to reject her calf or is # 84 going to have twins? (She’s looking pretty pregnant.) Are the corrals set up to accommodate a few new mamas that just need time to acquaint themselves with this new thing that is following them around?

I check the weather forecast again…and nothing changed. Is this weather pattern I see going to help with cutting back our cases of scours? I sure hope so. It’ll be hard for the ranch to keep going on if we have another year like last year. But the least of my worries is that we’re going to have a whole herd of cats or zebras.

You see the moment we put the bulls in with the cows we knew the constancy of what the laws of God that were put in place at the beginning were at play here. Genesis 1:24 each creature after its own kind. So I have no worries and neither does any other rancher out there. In fact, if you ask a farmer or rancher what was planted in the spring or what was bred in the fall, you are assured that they are expecting spring wheat if they planted spring wheat, and they are expecting Hereford cross calves if they bred in a Hereford bull. It’s these kinds of consistent laws that remind us that “what a man sows the same he will reap.” The truth of sowing and reaping is all over the scriptures so Remember this as you go on in your day to day routine and how you interact with life. It’s time I leave you here with this and my prayer is that you consider what was pointed out and you give it some thought and that you may pray some prayers for the farmers and ranchers out there we all cherish them.

“On the lighter side”

What do you call a happy cow man?

A Jolly Rancher!

Soldier on, friends.