Category Archives: livestock care

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  Blocking ‘ag gag’ laws may prolong abuse

  Posted on April 25, 2013 by Mike Haley in Agvocate, Farm, livestock care

  Growing up on a farm, one of my biggest responsibilities was tending to the animals in our family’s care. At times livestock can be unpredictable in ways that are both amusing and frustrating, but much like a parent cares for thUeir child I cannot think of a moment that my top priority was not in [...]

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  All covered in Poop.

  Posted on April 24, 2012 by Mike Haley in Cattle, Farm, livestock care

  We had a cow bloat this morning. I don’t know if she ate to much last night, or just was laying the wrong direction for to long and the gases in her rumen could not escape. Nonetheless she was stuck on her side and could not get up. I frantically started to push on her [...]

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  Winter Grazing – Wordless Wednesday

  Posted on January 4, 2012 by Mike Haley in Cattle, farm photos, livestock care, Wordless Wednesday
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  Visitors On The Farm, Oh My!

  Posted on November 30, 2011 by Mike Haley in #AgChat, Agvocate, Cattle, Farm, farm photos, livestock care

  Recently a good friend I met online, Ryan Goodman, asked an interesting question on his popular blog Agriculture Proud: “How would you farm differently if a total stranger (non-farmer/rancher) followed you around all day?” I found this an interesting question. My first response was that I would do nothing different but after thinking about how [...]

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  Sparboe Farms Open Letter

  Posted on November 21, 2011 by Mike Haley in #AgChat, Agvocate, livestock care

  Thanks to Zachary Bray for sharing his thoughts on the recent undercover video linking McDonalds to animal cruelty and how it effects his families poultry farm. Zachary can be found on his newly formed blog, From Cubicle To Corral To whom it may concern: My name is Zachary Bray. I’m a young, beginning farmer. On [...]

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  An open letter to America

  Posted on September 20, 2011 by Mike Haley in #AgChat, Agvocate, Environment, family, Farm, livestock care

  I’m not sure who may read this and knowing some of you may not know me, I want to start this off by introducing myself. I am a fifth generation grain and beef farmer from Ohio. My daily responsibilities on our family’s farm vary immensely from day to day, but in the end, each day [...]

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  Wordless Wednesday at the Ohio State Fair.

  Posted on July 27, 2011 by Mike Haley in Cattle, farm photos, livestock care, Wordless Wednesday

  Kady Davis with her heifer “Haley’s Jewel”

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  Dog Days of Summer are Here

  Posted on July 1, 2011 by Pam Haley in #Plant11, Agvocate, Cattle, family, Farm, farm photos, livestock care

  Well it has been a long time since we last posted on here but there has been a lot going on and not much time to relax and take it easy.  So let me up date you on what has been happening, we have almost finished planting everything it was a rough year and there [...]

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  Learning the Hard Way

  Posted on May 17, 2011 by Pam Haley in Cattle, family, Farm, livestock care, Uncategorized

  As I thought about writing this post I am remembering the hundreds of times through my life that I have heard someone say “Sometimes you just have to learn the hard way” well that applies to the day that I am having.  Let us start from the beginning of the day, it is wet nasty [...]

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  Why Animal Abuse?

  Posted on April 21, 2011 by Mike Haley in livestock care

    Yesterday I wrote a post in outrage about a video I saw showing very horrid animal abuse and neglect to calves on a large farm in Texas.  I don’t, nor does the industry support such acts of animal abuse by anyone.  If you are interested in what other farmers have had to say about [...]

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