Payday a week from today.
(today, crap phone pics)


Yuppie tractor.


Older cows.




Bred heifers.

Back to the barnyard.


The dickheads.


My buddy.


Calves.


More calves.


And young cows(open and bred)


That little bay horse is a good one.


Adios.

Looks frigid

Thanks Sam. That's where the beef is.

Total opposite, lately it's been really nice.

Sun, no wind and 10-30F.

Good looking stock Sam. Should do well in the ring.

Osky

Got spurs, and chaps Sam?

"A cowboy went riding on a dark, and stormy night."

You take some good pics, Sam.

Osky, the market is trying to climb back up! I'd like to give it another 2-3 weeks but the feeder special sale in Glasgow is next week.

It seemed you needed a buddy Sam. Nice to see you have one.

Great thread to cheer this place up. Thanks!

Yep.


Look good indeed.

Great pics Sam0!

Thank you guys but I still haven't figured out how to take camera pics that are anywhere near as good as the ol' Canon G15.


And you guys know we have a few oddballs in the herd that didn't make the pics. But knock on wood overall herd health this past winter has been great. Barring one cold snap it's been too easy, I'm afraid of Spring!

Ed, that is a super dog in the making. I pray she never gets run over.

Is that a 2755 with a 245 loader? View looks familiar

Are you selling the whole bunch Sam,, how many head?

The green paint is soothing to the eye. 7330 with a 741sl. It is suffering a dead short and the loader hydraulics are worthless(compared to the older 10 series when it's really cold, takes forever to get going). So I unhook the battery everytime I shut the fuucker off and hook it back up everytime I start it. Nice tractor otherwise.

Sweet pics

Enjoyed the pics. Looks pretty chilly to this Mississippi boy…😁

Geno, tomorrow my 75 year old dad and I are gonna sort heifers from steers. My mom would help swing a gate but she flew back down to CA to see my little sister and her new baby (again). Spoiled little sister! lol


And my wife and her sister are driving to Billings tomorrow to go get a dog that had hip surgery last week and is now ready to come home.



#gofundme......lol!

Meanwhile, Sam's can is still in jail?

Got approved last week but haven't drove over and got it yet(lazy), right close to a 1 year wait!

Small group of mostly heifers waiting for a fresh bale of hay this morning. One bull in there waiting patiently with his girls.

Getting pretty sloppy this week.

Creeks were bank full today.

Hell no we aren't selling the whole herd! But I'm selling all 60 of our calves.


The farm will keep some heifers as replacements and it'll need to buy more.

Them fuggers look cold

While we clearly don't do what you do but getting back into dogs with "I'll never have another" after losing our Cocker after 15 years some years ago the blue and red heeler seem to have added years of life for us (well and two grandchildren...). You know the lake. Our place far up the mountains.

When I read the thread title, “cattle pics” I knew it was LBP friendly

I seem to remember you put in for yours not long after I applied for one. I got in on January 27 last year and picked up the can yesterday morning. 362 days. You'll like it a lot when you start using it.

When you buy more are you trying to expand the blood lines.. when i said whole bunch i ment just heifers .

Hope you do well at the sale
.

Norm

I need to come see you and Conrad for some coyote control to keep the cows and sheep safe.

And I can tell you that I can call them in better than Flave

Why is the reddish horse a bay and not a roan?
Do you feed all year or have some pasture? Not too many days off in a livestock operation!

Nice pics Sammo!
Cows are work! But they are damn tasty work.

There you go dipshit, you always blabbing about feeding out some "Olson" cattle.....60 head aught to make a nice load...... send the truck and a check, Sam could save the comish at the sale barn.

What breed of dog?

Corb Lund, Cows Around.

Seems the time is just what it is for the heffer market Sam, I hope you catch it on top.

Your herd shows you have an eye for longer bodied stock, I like that.

Osky

If this weather holds and spring moisture is decent there is gonna be a pretty stout bunch of calves showing up in short order.

Yours are doing as well up there Jim?

Osky

Red tractors matter.

Sam: Can't help but notice that all the cattle are black. When I was up at Broadus MT an old cowman told me the Hereford cattle udders would sunburn due to reflection from snow and calves couldn't nurse. When I was a kid in the 60s we lived in Utah almost all the beef cattle were Hereford. Last few times I was there almost all were black.

Pure black Angus suffer terribly down here with our heat, humidity, and insects. Got to have a little Brahman influence.

Best part of owning cattle is when you sell them. Sold a load Tuesday and another Wednesday.... waiting on the checks. Your cattle always look really good, I'm sure y'all will do great.

Don't ya just hate it when some unknowing soul asks you, how many cows do you have or how many acres is your ranch ?

Damnit Man, how much money do you have in the bank? It's none of your business how many cows he has!!

Not really, no.

Nice pictures men....

🤣🤣🤣

Snow is gone and it's 60 degrees today. Strange weather

Price seems kinda low.

"An old cowpoke went riding out one dark, and stormy day."

People ask that all the time when they wouldn't dare ask how much do you have in the bank or how much is in your IRA.

Cattle are negotiable securities and therefore money. When I managed the local farm co-op for my brother in his absence I told the employees to quit asking people how many cattle they had.

Of course some folks manage cattle that are actually owned by a bank so they may not own 500 head. The neighbor with 50 may actually own more.

Me, back when.

Not too bad.

Got grass yet and we got some hay this year before everything burned off.

Our numbers are way down to do us much good...but we saved a few heifers.

Excellent thread Sammo!





There is at least one Iowan that laid back and smoked a cigarette, 3 minutes after it was posted, I'm sure.

T bones.

Good to hear Jim. The lovely ups and downs of it all.

Osky

Kudos to you gents who raise beef cattle!

Still calving. I'll be glad to be done. Probably going to try and keep heifer calves this year after culling deep the last couple of years of severe drought.

Beautiful steaks!

Touché


lol

Thanks for all the replies and pics!



I'll get back to you guys later today.

Holstien beef?

I guess if you think it is...

Holsteins along with several other breeds, "beef" is a by-product of their existence. Not what they exist for.

Makes lots of hamburgers for McDonald's though.

Texas style.....

The sale barn has gone digital. Where is that at Wabi ??

kwg

Dunlap, Iowa

My wife's folks fed a lot of Holstiens back when, some made prime.

That's why Big Jim joined Costco.

Dunlap Sales

Because it was from 2 years ago.

Where's the beeves?

Having eaten some of Richard's T-bones, I can attest to the correctness, of this statement !

Cool! Never knew you were with the Village People.

A feedlot man told me that Holstein steers would grade 90% choice but they don’t convert feed economically so they must be bought at a lower price than the beef breeds. The best home raised beef I ever butchered was a Jersey steer.

No rez kid wanting a day off from school, an official one for "on the job training"? Swinging a gate isn't that hard.

Hope you're having fun with them cirtters

Belongs to a neighbor.

You can get some boney cuts from Holstien beef.

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Love the Highlander pictures! Last several years I raised a few head for customers I used Highlander cows covered by low line angus bulls. Still have folks calling to see if there are any quarters or halves available.

A fellow raises longhorns, when a cow dies, he cuts off it's head, and sell it for $250

I ain't a cowboy, but have a miniature Longhorn. I won him in a raffle a year ago. He is on an Angus Ranch in Ringgold, Tex. He is pretty onery and may get run across the scales.

The price looks like a buyer's market. Can I run those through Amazon Prime for free shipping?

Bidding had not started.

New water pump

I'm pretty excited, hopefully get over to Glasgow next week!





Norm, leave it to the internet for confusion.. We(my dad aka the farm) haven't bought any replacements in over 10 years. Not worried about blood lines so much as this year dad is trying to expand and get our(his) cow numbers back up and we simply won't enough even replacement type heifers of our own. If that makes sense.






Critter I recently saw a pack of 4, the suppressor and new rifle are going into action soon!




What I would call a roan has white blended in to red or blue, etc..

To me a bay is a red/brown horse with a black mane and tail.

I personally don't own any land and lease all my summer grass. We feed various cattle(everyday) from November through May. It's a grind.








Guess what's for dinner?!





Rez mutt that show signs of JRT.






Market is trying to come back, probably really take off after we sell....lol





Yeah, if it's red leave it the shed, or if it ain't red leave it the shed? Confusing!






We are 100% black with a few black white face. The buyers like uniform sets of calves and we get along well with the black Angus. They handle our winter but you are correct, they don't like to move in the heat so we always do pasture changes as early in the morning as possible.






I don't mind, just a small time herd for me and that's all I need. Like I said my wife and I have 60 cows and 60 calves(static number) and zero farm debt. I trade labor for feed and our overhead is incredibly low which provides great profit margins. My wife was looking at my W2 and commented that I need a raise(I make $40k in wages and my parent's have offered to pay me more). I said no I don't, just think about all the money we save not buying winter feed, replacement heifers, the list never ends... I'm hoping to profit $80k on our mini herd, not many guys can clear that on 60 head of calves. But it comes at the expense of having very little free time.








hahaha!





Again, thanks all of you for the great pics and replies!




Dad and I got the calves sorted up without issue, gonna pick off replacements on Monday. Weather is beyond ideal.

Ours are nothing more than pets.
They are my wife's pride and joy. Never to be sold or on someone's plate.

Trucker Josh.

[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD5kS

My last cattle pics on my phone were from the summer

Ben, that boy is getting big!

Jake, and Gilbert a couple years back

West Virginia traffic jam. Randolph County near our old camp. Some of its private land some public but even the public is leased out for pasture ground until the middle of October. Cattle guards on both ends of this road .

We use to drive our cows as far as 15 miles.

Sam, and all, look at Kenny Angus for bulls.

Ricardo, you talking trail the cows 15 miles or haul them 15 miles?

If you trailed how long did it take you?

Some of these go in close to that. Anyone familiar ( I know a few on here might be) Circleville to the west side of the Sinks of Gandy. The rest are brought in on a mix of cattle trailers , stock trailers and road tractors

Good to see you back.

Yeah I think I'm in that part of life, where everything's moving too fast.


It's been a muddy shtt show all fall, the grounds only been frozen for 2 weeks tops. I think it hit 50 today. Safe to say it hasn't been great picture weather.

Feeder prices still seem pretty high around here. Good luck with the sale!

Back when, farmers wanted cows to hold down volunteer corn. That was when we drove them so far.

Ben dealing with mud and cows sucks!


I waited until a nice frosty white scene for the glamour shots.....lol


And yeah, blink and it's already noon, or month is gone.

Great picture

Don't know Sam, as fast as cows walk?

Sam. and all do you fed cake, and what?

It is.





Wife is outta town so I'm getting double wild....lol

Cheers people!

Morrsens Feeds, and Feeding, "The eye of the master fattens the herd,"

Bury it in sautéed shrooms and onions and don’t look back.

Osky

That's a damn good way to enjoy a steak.


Sadly the only shrooms I have are about 8 years old and will wreck your dinner....lol


Never again!

"That's my steak Valence."

The 7 minute steak over a piece of hickory.

#amazing


The fricken dogs had better appreciate it!

Looks great brother Sam

Just polished off my own big rib steak Sam. The pretty Mohican came by and had em on the grill in no time. Didn’t know she’d pulled em out of the freezer.
Life is right.

Osky

It's nice to find peaceful, non-agitated gentlemen with which to converse.


Hopefully Conrad doesn't show back up.

Sam, you need a battery cutoff switch.I put them on all our equipment and rarely have any dead batteries anymore.

#golden

Thumbs up!

You rang sombitch!

I had chicken for dinner.

That was the temporary plan but of course we never even got that far.

Good to see ya 😜

We are all here!

Ancestors were farmers. Cousins on farms in Illinois. Both got out of the feeder pig business couple years ago and are strictly crops. Economics of farm biz has long been interesting to me.
Am I correct that finished calf weight is 1000 pounds? To clear the 80 on 60 calves is over a grand per animal. Interesting stuff.
40 below in interior Alaska today. There're folks up here raising cattle!

Steer calves born maybe late march/April and shipped in November are targeted for a 650lb average so the contract buyer semis can be max loaded ackordingly so to speak. Buyers feed them out from there to finish weight, often adding 400 lbs or so.
That’s what many ranchers try for in Eastern MT. Some do it otherwise.

Osky

Fat blacks

Shaggies...

The calves we raise at home in our small easy country pastures will generally wean about 100lbs heavier than the calves that are out on the harder BLM and CMR country.

On a good year with grass and no flies the big country calves will wean 500-550lbs, home will go 600-650. Cows also breed back quite a bit at better at home as well.

This past year guys that run out in the hills similar to us had weaning weights 50-80lbs lighter. We didn't sell or weigh any of our calves at weaning(early Nov) but they looked lighter.

Our calves now look a lot better and I hope the heavy side of the steers goes 660lbs, last year they went 677 and most years close to 700. They'll be on feed for about 90 days since weaning and figure they put on 1.5lbs per day so 650-670 might be doable with a light wean weight of 510-520.

Crazy thing is a 550 steer calf is within about $50 of a 650 pound version. St Onge had a helluva sale yesterday.

https://www.stongelivestock.com/images/E0320101/C012624.pdf

$1800-1850 on some of the 6 weight steers.


On our little run of calves I'd be tickled with an average of $1650 between the heifers and steers.

Some of those Montana cows are damned tough.

Freeze branding

Bulls at Kenney Angus.

Prime rib

Easy weather today!






What do those little chubs weigh?

650 to 700?

Warm enough even the Duck of Death could make it on the river.


It's 50 right now and almost all the snow is gone.

Big coulee is running.

Nice looking calves Sam.


Where is your brand at? I should buy some heifer calves from you next year.

Right hip on everyone of 'em.



And here a month ago I was thinkin' I wanted some of your heifer calves!




It's floodin' off the roof right now into the leaky gutter by our back step.

Perfect!

Mines on the left rib.

How's the dog Sam?

I’m curious, what’s up with the grain scoop on the waterer? Diverter? Direct the water flow down? I know there’s a reason.

To hold down the draft. We bought anther cast tank heater, we need to rig lids.

Sam, can your horse dance like Trigger?

Good idea, thanks.

I put in a Mirafount auto waterer a couple years ago, ( the one with the floating balls that keeps out cold air ) and it works great. Temps down in the low teens a few times this year and the water didn’t freeze.

We had the Mircofout with the balls, It still needed more heat.

Inside laying around like she always does....lol

Went from 58 to 54 pounds during her week in Billings.

I bet so up there where it stays cold for so long. Around here it’s not as bad and I sure don’t mind chopping ice in the tanks with an old ax.

We have 8 different water holes going right now off of one main system. Insulated tanks with hydrants and no electricity all the way to Ritchie's.


I worry too much but water in the winter always worries me.

Guy yesterday was talking about something called a Frost Mizer or Freeze Mizer or something.

A cooler made by Richie.

Nice pics Sam...

Always appreciate your pics (and the rest of you Montana boys)... very different than here.

Interesting thoughts on water and the efforts we put in to supply such: Many years back, the Miles City Research Center (Fort Keogh) spent a ton of $$$$ developing a system to precisely track livestock weights on a daily basis. Such would have been really fine data on stock growth, nutrition, and development related to near any management program one could dream up. It involved pit tags in the ears coupled with an ID and scale system that would weigh stock with every visit to water.

Seems it was a failure, as even in their corrals on initial test runs some cattle never visited water for up to 2 weeks at a time. Turns out they were eating snow.

Allbert, The Bull."

Any feed citrus plup?

No, most of us still have teeth.

Nice thread Sam,,, was up yalls way this past week,visiting some family in Kalispel, and Whitehall and visiting the wifes old home place in Gold creek,and Libby,, Awesome country and tough people,, good looking beef for the harshness through most winters,, We been kicking around Mt.and Wy the past week, love the Bitter root area,, we also liked Cody ,Sundance and Thermopolis WY, but She's a Montana Girl LOL,, Best of luck

Thanks Cash!

It's a rough and dirty little piece of MT but it's home.







1minute, that would not work in our feed pens, and really NOT work with the cows on 15% moisture hay and cake.



Regardless of snowpack, a cow or calf is not gonna wait two weeks to hit the water tank when it lives in a giant pen or small pasture and is being fed. I call bull chit on the study.

I wouldn't wait more than a day right now to not provide our feed yard crew with liquid water.

You'll know real quick when the water isn't working which is why we pay attention.

Hos, don't take her to Wolf Point and MT will still be an option for you guys!

lol

I wish I had some new pictures to post. I'm afraid there are folks that don't know how much work, and money it takes to produce beef. They might think it grow in the store shelf.

Gilbert, the new cowboy in our outfit.

Some good pictures on this thread. Enjoyed it.

Missed this, you rangey wanker!

Not surewhat i am looking at Sam Are the prices on the 100 LB weight on that link

Norm

Lot's of cowfolks eat chicken, you can kill, and eat a chicken before it spoils.
Before freezers, canned beef was the beef,
Remember the red chickens on Gunsmoke?

Norm, yeah, price is per hundred weight.


Easy way to figure price per head is to simply move the decimal over 2 spots, take that number and multiply it times the weight.

For instance...


700lbs at $270.00 is 700 x 2.70=$1890 which would be my dream right now.

But in reality it's probably gonna be 650lbs at $2.65 for $1722, aka broke.

Ever ride a steer?
My Brother James did, not the right one!

still not bad though . are you still thinking the price will go up in late Febuary.. do the auction houses take a flat rate or overall average% rate

I do remember those red chickens. Stole the show.

Just a small timer here. We calve late April, wean Oct. , 550lb . I keep my 25 and buy another 20 4wts. we make use of forages and pasture to grow them to about a 1000lbs, then into the fat yard till primed at 1450-1600.
I have watched the St. Onge auction on line and it is probly the hottest feeder market going.

Mirafounts insulation get waterlogged with age and the dont work very well.

Yeah not a bad price.


If there wasn't so much outside influence in the market I would bet it climbs another $10-20 per hundred weight. But, you don't want to get greedy.

Hell the headline yesterday was outside influence from a giant real estate outfit in China going broke(?) to the troops killed in Jordan having a negative affect on the market. Main thing I worry about are the mega funds pulling out and profit taking like they did in November and December. Same thing happens in the grain markets, even if the market is fundamentally strong there are a million ways for it to falter.


Today it was up 2.70 which is a nice gain.

Nothing wrong with that plan!



St Onge is always a good market to keep an eye on. Last year in early February though Glasgow, MT had them all beat. I literally couldn't believe it.

Good size feeder sale in Miles City today and I'm very curious how that went. They might have results up by tonight.

http://www.milescitylivestock.net/

And it was 54F today, the calves were panting following that -36F two weeks ago. Too cold and now it's too warm!

Great thread, This is in Wisconsin at a restaurant

That's a chunky boy right there!

Miles was a good sale today.

Osky

Excellent.

What protein you feed?

Was looking around today and realized it was 90 degrees warmer than a couple weeks ago.

A friend is hauling some calves to Glasgow for a rancher out south.

Hopefully there will be good enough numbers to draw some buyers.

Isn't that some crazy scheidt?

I think your safe from the madding crowds if that situation arises. Who the hell wants to live there.

we hit 65F or so the past couple of days, but only after being down around 22 or so a few days earlier. Damn burr buttercup is already going gangbusters, I expect to see blooms on it soon. Wife will go on her warpath against it in the dog yard soon.

There is a feed mill 50 miles south and we get all our 3/16 and 3/4" pellets and cake from them. They are real good about delivery/communication. I could call or text our feed guy right now and he'd respond. Of course it's not cheap, don't ask me what it is now.


16% protein screenings and grain by-products.

Hopefully the buyers have deep pockets and want to buy now while the gettin's good!

Remember the old Stockyards? I do, Sioux City, cattle on the ground level, hogs on the catwalk, sheep on top,

Sam, Hope I don't piss you cattle folks off, but.....................


I had a couple of lamb chops for dinner tonight!




Not to worry, I ate a t -bone from my neighbors' beef last night.

Geno, you know we're all still ready to fight after this Wolf moon drifts away.




I would fricken love to sit down and eat some mutton with you hippies. Conrad included...

I cooked chili burgers!

Fresh beef..

Looks about ripe there Shrapnel

Maybe if gas prices stay low enough and I get the urge for a road trip. Haven't been to MT since about 2013

Was speaking to a local farmer Sunday, while buying some beef.

We were talking about the crazy winter temps, this year, they are calving at present, so I said it must make it easier.

They said, Nope, really hard to keep the little on's clean, & therefore healthy, when everything is a sloppy mess !

Sure took me by surprise !!

But in hindsight, makes perfect sense.

You can always count on it being too hot, cold dry or wet!

Generally a coyote delicacy Shrap… however this year two went down this fall in what traditionally on the ranch would be the best spots for remote coyote interest. Neither was touched period and they melted out to nothing. Gazillions of dogs around, I’ve shot them all around but despite plenty of tracks they never got on those beeves.
Now had that been horse flesh….

Interesting year out there.

Osky

Guard dogs love them.

Don’t know much about that Jim.

Osky

For sure, Jim !!

A livestock guardian dog feels that it's civic duty is to reduce all dead animals to slick white bones as quickly as possible....so they coyotes don't get a chance at them.


Then...the bones are scattered from hell to breakfast.


Most of which end up on your front lawn and front door steps.

Or in your damn tractor tire...

Well, go figure.

I wasn’t aware.

Osky

Moose, Elk, Bison isn't gamey tasting.

If a cow simply dies here, the coyotes are on it. Get sickly, be doctored with some shots etc, then die, and the coyotes won't touch them for months.

" With a ten-dollar horse, and a forty-dollar saddle, I'm goin' to puhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4FOgKC-g9U&pp=ygULY2FzaCAgYWxhbW8%3Dchin' Texas cattle,"

The video is even better…

I didn’t have the guts to do that.
Good humor.

Osky

Turning cows on fresh cornstalks.

Good luck today Sam and Sam's Dad.

Thanks man!


Our neighbor might watch the sale on TV and if so he will have a report.



I see the futures are up almost $5, buyers better be buyin'!

Lightn' your cigar with a hundred bill?

I watched for a bit on my phone on Cattle USA...but I find it hard to follow.

They don't announce the seller so I can hear.

Well gentlemen I missed the average between steers and heifers by $20. They went $1630 apiece which considering how light they were was decent money.

I had to do a double take when our neighbor sent me a text of the results. The big end of the steers was only 565 lbs, still can't believe it but obviously they weaned way lighter than I figured. But apparently the flies did a number on a bunch of us around here because I heard there were a lot of lightweights this year going through the ring.


Silver lining was the price, the steers at 565lbs sold for $3.20 which isn't bad.

Cool deal

The next guys gonna have his work cut out for him.

I'm home now and fired up the desktop. They're selling a run of 443lb steers now, and another run of little 4 weights.


Crazy year.

Almost as much fun feedin' 'em as it is raising 'em!

It'd be interesting to fatten out those Olson calves.

You should be happy with that price. As for flies, I have been useing Garlic in my salt, comes pre mixed. isnt 100%, but really helps for the cost and ease of use.

KayDee feeds had a feed they called Flydits. Fly eggs don't hatch in manure.
Pour on. or Injectables can hold down fly's, and a wick with insectile all help.

I actually talked to our feed guy about IGR mineral today. We go through about 3 ton of regular mineral a year but that's 99% here at home and not out in the hills where we summer graze.


But it would be nice to cut down on the flies here close to home.
(obviously)

Bought 6 bags of IGR mineral just to see how the cattle like it before we buy a pallet. I believe Jim said his cows didn't care for it. Not cheap, $49 for a 50lb bag.

We have it added to our protein pellet for the animals in our feedlot. It's one of those products you have to be religious with, can't half ass it. Otherwise you wasted all your money.

Even if we had a 10-20% fly reduction it would be worth it.


Beyond terrible last year. And I'm talking out in the pasture in pristine hills without a cow in sight. And of course here at home around the feed yard.



One day last summer we stopped to unload horses(not a cow within at least a mile) and the hood of a white F350 turned black. Unreal nasty.

I bet you're kids already have a nursing home picked out for you.

What a relief!


Glad you got a decent price.


Our heavy steers were born the end of May and we shipped to Glasgow off the cows on the 14th of December.


They weighed 501 we got 285


How many days did you feed them Sam?


And yes...our cows never did eat fly mineral.

We think we had better luck with the fly tubs.

Jim, we weaned in early November. Still shaking my head about the weight but at least the mid-weight feeders are in demand.

We have a couple slick bull calves that were born out on grass in June. I should take a pic, they are hefty but then again I missed our sell weight by 100lbs!

But the time and effort and cost of putting on that next 100lbs is taking a chance of the price holding or + or -. So figure how much time and let us know if you would have won or lost or broke even.


Norm

Sam, you're birthing all the calves you sell. How many calves can you get from a heifer? How old is a heifer when she is first bred. Didn't I see you mention having bulls? You don't buy semen?
Have been trying to figure out which state you're in. I give up! Where are you?
Enjoying the thread!

Any withholding or are you feeding the public, insect growth regulators?
Implanting beef with growth stimulators and feeding them insect growth regulators, What the [bleep] could go wrong? This is why I buy no beef in the store.

Sam and Jim,

Check this out.

Go to the 2:35 mark. This guy has a bale unroller for behind a 4 wheeler. Ever see one?

Looks dangerous!


Must be a 4 foot wide bale.


I would not try that on anything except for extremely level ground.

Like on the driveway?

lol

Norm, judging by the Miles City sale they had in early November back when we weaned, we probably would have got about $1400 for the better steers calves. That is estimating a wean weight of 450lbs at $3.10/lb.

As I mentioned we got $1813(565lbs at $3.21lb)

$1813-1400 is $413 more per head.

Of course we have about 90 days worth of feed in them and figure it's $1.50 per day to feed a calf. So that's $135 off of the $413 difference leaving us with a gain of $278 per calf.

I should also add(knock on wood) that we lost only one calf this winter since we weaned which is really good. And we tried to get that calf out of the pen for a shot but he got wild and we figured he must not be very sick so we aborted the mission. Laying there dead the next morning... So death loss was basically nothing when it comes to the profit.

Time-wise all we do in the winter is feed cows anyway so it's not like we'd be doing something fun like go on a trip like the farmers do in the off season.

The are still selling feeders at the Dunlop Sale.

Feeding cows

Trapper, yes we raise all the calves we sell.

A heifer will have her first calf right around when she turns two years old and they have a 9 month gestation period so they are roughly 15-18 months old during breeding season.

We tend to sell our old cows when they are 11-13 years old so they'll raise around 10 calves during their mature lifetime.

We buy bulls from other ranchers and all of our cows are bull bred in the pasture, no AI'ing.

And we live in northeast Montana where the living is always easy!

Rooster, I concur with Jim!


That is a funny video in more ways than one...lol

Cute little bales, bet Nugget would really like 'em!

What are they getting for the 565lb dinks?



I see St Onge didn't have a sale today.

Any horse pictures Sam? Got spurs?

Dang!

I wish my dinks were that heavy.

They have a website.

I listen to that tune all the time.

I just figured it would come in handy if you needed to roll over a ravine or something...


No. Seriously, I thought it looked pretty neat until Jim brought up the stability factor.


He rained on my parade.