Frank J. Buchman

Cowboy • Horseman • Writer

Horses Are Not Pets

“Every horse has different abilities with widely varied personalities.” Once again, a reminder has been emphasized that for these differences a horse might fit one person and not another.

Valuable Calves Hard Work

Baby calves are the most valuable property in recollection of nearly seven decades in the cattle business. Prices recorded at auctions today, usually several hundred dollars, far surpass the level of half a century ago.

Transitions In Moving Cattle

Most cattlemen nowadays have large gooseneck livestock trailers they pull with a big powerful pickup. Others even have semi tractors to pull single, double, and sometimes triple decker livestock trailers.

Cows Are Having Calves

Spring calving time has arrived, and workload has sharply intensified for Flint Hills ranchers with cow-calf operations. A cow’s gestation is the period between conception and birth. During this time, the baby grows and develops inside the mother’s womb.

Modern Machinery Still Better

“The days of tossing four small square hay bales out the south hay mow door to the bunk are gone.” Morning feeding chores would be finished by pitching two more bales down the chute to the barn manger.

Optimism For Better Days

Cold weather rapidly multiplies problems on the ranch. Exactly how much is too complex to figure for one who barely passed his college algebra course. But some people say it doesn’t have anything to do with algebra, rather it’s a math equation, add, subtract, multiply, divide. Whatever, freezing temperatures day after day add up to […]

Writers Have Their Dilemmas

“A writer is a person, who has to expose their deepest thoughts and bare their soul before unknown people.” Somebody else said that, but it is the truth filed away among vast reference information compiled throughout a lifetime.

Collecting Toy Horses Hobby

“Another model horse has been added to the collection started more than 65 years ago.” It was a pleasant surprise receiving a palomino toy horse as a retirement gift from the Extension Board.

Cattle Management Complex Business

“What kind of mineral do you feed your cattle?” “We don’t feed any,” responded the naïve high school agriculture senior interning at Charles Cowsert’s Monarch Charolais Ranch.