AMY KIRK
AMY'S RANCH SLANTS 12 Totally Useless Facts You May or May Not Want to Know About Me
My dad wanted to name me Buck if I wouldve been a boy. When I waited tables in high school I beat the fry cook in an arm wrestling match. My biggest vice is that I like salt way too much. I st...
Posted on 1/12/12 at 8:00 PM
AMY KIRK: Grateful for divine intervention
Prayers often only extra help for ranchers during calving season.
By Amy Kirk , May 19, 2013
KIRK: 'The Annoying Neighbor Kid'
Inquiring calves want the scoop when other cows are giving birth
By Amy Kirk , May 13, 2013
AMY KIRK: Dreaming about a mud room - it's a rural thing
Mudrooms vary in size but the one thing that’s collectively the same is that it’s a place where all things wet, mud and manure-covered are kept when not being worn.
By Amy Kirk , May 05, 2013
AMY KIRK: Mud, Murphy’s Law and calving
Midwestern weather leaves room for doubt when deciding spring schedule.
By Amy Kirk , April 29, 2013
AMY KIRK: The ranch style kitchen table
The kitchen table is a piece of furniture that serves the necessary purpose of providing a surface for mannerly eating. I wish I could say that happens at ours, but I’ve not been overly successful in achieving that with my family. It has successfully served us in numerous other ways it wasn’t intended for, though.
By Amy Kirk , April 21, 2013
AMY KIRK: One too many women in my husband’s life
Normally I harass my husband that he has one too many women in his life because of how much he fusses over our cows, but I decided it was time to give it a rest.
By Amy Kirk , April 14, 2013
AMY KIRK: Hand over the hand-me-downs
More than once I have perused the women’s section of winter work wear at various farm and ranch stores, tried a pair on, convinced myself to buy them, then made the mistake of looking at the price tag.
By Amy Kirk , April 07, 2013
AMY KIRK: The science behind baby calves
Calving is the one time I appreciate having suffered through high school biology class. Science and biology were never strong points for me in school but this time of year gets me all warm and fuzzy thinking about Punnett squares.
By Amy Kirk , March 31, 2013
AMY KIRK: Reading ear tags
What looks like a 7 is a 2, what looks like an 8 is a 6, and 6’s look like 5’s.
By Amy Kirk , March 24, 2013
AMY KIRK: Cows with an Attitude
I usually can’t remember calving details of every cow unless we’ve had a memorable relationship with them and even then I rarely remember them by their eartag numbers.
By Amy Kirk , March 17, 2013
AMY KIRK: Sorting springers
The ranch task of sorting springers (cows that start showing early signs of calving) could be described as calving season “busy work” consisting of a time-consuming activity that involves sorting out cows that mislead livestock handlers into thinking the cows are going to have their calves soon.
By Amy Kirk , March 11, 2013
AMY KIRK: Women key to the modern ranch
A depiction of a modern-day ranch just wouldn’t be complete or accurate without a determined woman in it.
By Amy Kirk , March 04, 2013
AMY KIRK: Grandma Gayle’s breadbox
A week or so after the funeral, my friend confessed to me that she mistook the wooden box that held my grandmother’s ashes for a beautiful breadbox.
February 25, 2013
AMY KIRK: Newborn calves are my heroes
I can’t imagine a tougher way to begin life than to be a calf. It takes so much effort for newborn calves to get across that rickety, iffy bridge of life and make it alive.
By Amy Kirk , February 18, 2013
AMY KIRK: Mirages - Farmers often see things not there as calving season nears
It’s that time of year around here — that threshold to calving season when we frequently see ranch mirages in our pasture.
By Amy Kirk , February 10, 2013
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