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I recognize that family sitting across the way 😃.

The Fuller family?

Good luck with them Richard.

I am also curious as to what you paid, ask Jake when you see him.



We sold our feeder calves yesterday and according to the note a neighbor left on my pickup window we did okay.


We kept the top half of our heifers for replacements and sold the rest.

The heifers that went to town averaged 581 and went for $1.48.

Big end of the steers weighed 739 and sold for $1.53.


As far as canner cows go we bit the bullet last spring and ran about 40 head of old cows without a bull. They are still on feed with our opens.

It's surprising to see Barry mention them so cheap down south. I just checked a recent sale in Miles City and they go for $60-65 for decent 1300-1400lb cows. That's in the $800 range.

We raised twice as many steer calves as heifers, near for of those are Freemartins.

We will likely sort for replacements from all the heifers, bought, and home raised.

Just in from watching the calves unload.

We use straight Angus bulls.

These averaged near 600 pounds. my half of the check was 28,000.

Richard—is that a lot of freemartins for your size operation? I’m no cow man but that seemed like a lot.

Yes it was Karl, the Freemartins, it was odd.

Back to the heifers. this morning they were mixed with the home raised heifers, somehow, they got the chain loose on a

Sioux gate. Two of the new heifers have a watery eye. Sort the two groups, then sort off the bad eyes. So we are down to

three in the corral, I'm in the sorting gate, she goes airborn straight at me. I do the best I can to get out of the way. I must

have, I'm typing about it, not ridding to a hospital.

My knee got twisted a bit, but I think I'll live. If I'm not too old for this sort of thing, I'm pushing it.

I have some pictures if you like to see them. Some of our ramshackle facilities show, sorry.

A good middle age cow, 6 months or so bred, here is selling for up to a $1000. Of course, it depends a lot on the cow, and how badly someone wants her. I've been shopping around for a few more, and have a couple of guys that I buy from, but so far haven't found what I want.........or maybe it would be better to say, what I can afford.

Ermegehereeerrred!


You dont have those cattle in a heated barn???? Not even sweaters and fuzzy hats for them?????



Asking for Slumlord.

They make blankets for horses, sweaters for hens, why not?

😀

Wabi after nearly getting gate ridden in the pen maybe somethings trying to tell you you should be up in "goon" country fishing hard water lakers instead of what your doing?

Osky

Lol

If you see someone (around here) with a blanket or jacket on a horse..,.it means “I’m only putting this on my horse because you don’t care about yours”

Like one of those AIDS ribbons people wear at awards shows.



Then they leave it on them for the next 3 flooding rains. lol

It keeps me young!

That is great Jim!

Are you knitting and selling those during your winter "off time"?

Muleshoe,.....not me.

There are people around here that do however.

Silly buggers who calve in jan-feb. Pure bred bull breeders and such.

Gawd....what a terrible way to make a living!

I believe it's a woman from Saskatchewan that makes and sells those ear muffs for the calves. Mixed farmers here start calving in mid March. They want to be done by mid April. The guys that are mostly cattle with very little grain land start in April.

Interesting stuff and I learned a new word

Freemartin.

Good luck with them cows Richard............wishing you a prosperous cattle season.

Geno

Around these parts, every calf born or less than four months old, during Dec-Jan of '72-'73 had cropped ears. Most of them being half gone.

We were milking 35 head that winter by hand in a three walled shed with stanchions, and feeding about 100 with baled hay and corn silage. There was not an engine on the place which would start for almost two weeks straight.

No, I do not miss those days.

Wabi, them's some good lookin' beeves. Is your herd purebred black critters?