The cattle thread

[sandhiller]

1 hour ago, db1486 said:

I don't know how many times I been driving by and seen one laying like that on the pasture, race out to check it, run up to it, and they just open an eye and look up like what's your problem lol. I'm sure I've almost had a few heart attacks lol

Been there many times, breathe a sigh of relief to see that ear twitch😅

[ray54]

They get me worrying, then my dads  words come back "if you cannot afford to lose one once in a while  you cannot afford to own them".

One of his other thought was "you generally lose 3 if one dies". Not from a dieses outbreak, just random things, miles apart generally.

 

Dang you have going down memory lane, so you might as well get another. "You can never starve a profit out of a cow". With his meaning you don't have feed sell them to somebody that does.

[sandhiller]

4 hours ago, ray54 said:

They get me worrying, then my dads  words come back "if you cannot afford to lose one once in a while  you cannot afford to own them".

One of his other thought was "you generally lose 3 if one dies". Not from a dieses outbreak, just random things, miles apart generally.

 

Dang you have going down memory lane, so you might as well get another. "You can never starve a profit out of a cow". With his meaning you don't have feed sell them to somebody that does.

Wise words Ray.

Over a lifetime a cowman will lose many no matter how hard he tries otherwise. It a part of doing business. It is nature.

Around here, deaths come in threes and not just cattle. Not sure the science behind it but it holds true quite often.

"You can't starve a profit out of em" is heard here to.

Along with"you have to feed em to breed em".

[WishIhada1466]

We started our herd with three open heifers in 2017. Had a rough time getting everything bred back after the first calving. Every year since we have had 100% bred.  Have continued to grow the herd by keeping back heifers and buying a few heifers every year. We have been borrowing a bull from my neighbor. We finally got in a position this year where we could purchase our own bull. It is a great feeling having a complete breeding herd. My neighbors raise Angus and Sim-Angus bulls. I picked out and picked up a bull today and turned him out with cows. 

[hardtail]

Beautiful setting with lots of grass ♥️

[maxxum 140]

Just love when we can get the cattle on grass!  Moved these heifers yesterday.

[midnightman]

Finally got the cows hauled out on grass today.

[sandhiller]

Got the fall calves weaned and worked this morning. 

Dang that hyd chute is nice, even working by myself. 

I have a few spring calves each year from the neighbors bull and like to brand them when I wean fall calves. 

This year I had 5.

Usually just grab them in the alley way, drop and tie then work them. 

Not this year, they were bigger than I thought. Running with the 650# fall calves they looked small. 

I tied a innertube to the top of the chute with a catch rope tied to it and around the calves neck when I let them out of the chute it was kind of like holding with a horse. 

Cleared em dropped em and tied em. 

Then branded and vaccinated and cut them. 

Just so you don't think I am that smart, I am really feeling it tonight, three of the bull calves did not want to roll up on my thigh like they were supposed to. 

The old fat man dropped a couple pounds today

thinking next year I won't wait so long to do them or get some help from the younger generation

[mike newman]

On 5/1/2022 at 1:09 PM, ray54 said:

They get me worrying, then my dads  words come back "if you cannot afford to lose one once in a while  you cannot afford to own them".

One of his other thought was "you generally lose 3 if one dies". Not from a dieses outbreak, just random things, miles apart generally.

 

Dang you have going down memory lane, so you might as well get another. "You can never starve a profit out of a cow". With his meaning you don't have feed sell them to somebody that does.

Ray...a long way from cattle, but my old Father in Law one day was watching one of  his Grandsons...(my young lad..) ..feeding the chooks......and duly collecting the eggs.... 

Nothing unusual about that,..but "Grandad" said ,quite  solemnly....""I've never  yet known a chook not to die in debt ""

I thought it was very amusing...sadly...the lad was to young to get the point....

Mike

[yellowrosefarm]

Saturday I was mowing along the roadside and noticed one of my cows standing in the middle of the field staring at the ground. She would walk to the shade and then back to that spot. Definitely not normal, so I headed down there to see what was going on. When I got about 5 feet away I saw a calf head in a hole below ground level. The hole was about 20" in diameter and full of water. I got the best hold on him I could and got his front feet up out of the hole, then bear hugged him and lifted him all the way out.  He was very much alive, but judging from the size of his Mommas bag, had been in there a while. The grass wasn't matted down nearby so they must have been moving when he fell in. How he didn't die from hypothermia in that 55 degree water, I'm not sure, but so far so good. He was a big un, so maybe that helped. My hay feeder is over the hole now so no else can fall in it. There had been a small depression there for years, but I had no idea there could be a spring under it. If it stays full through the end of summer, I might develop it as a water source.

[hardtail]

Hoping for a full recovery, kind of weird event

[sandhiller]

[MTB98]

My wife bought a mini Jersey heifer a couple years ago for what seemed to be too good of a price.  I need her with our mini Hereford bull to make sure she was fertile. A few days ago she dropped a bull calf. He seems to have mostly Hereford markings but with the frame of a Jersey. Now that I know she is a breeder we may AI her with a mini Jersey bull and keep fingers crossed for a full bred mini Jersey heifer calf. 

[mike newman]

sunrise   and fog .....good time  for an old bloke to be alive ...and above the grass......

Mike

[Lazy WP]

26 minutes ago, mike newman said:

sunrise   and fog .....good time  for an old bloke to be alive ...and above the grass......

Mike

Awesome picture Mike!!

[Lazy WP]

This showed up on my Farcbook from 8 years ago. 

[sandhiller]

Starting with branding next weekend, there will be a lot of cows running through the new chute this fall. 

The 656 worked ok but it was a bit noisy.

 

I got a 220v pump put in the tack room and man oh man is it quiet. 

Will sure make life around the chute more enjoyable!

 

[Lazy WP]

36 minutes ago, sandhiller said:

Starting with branding next weekend, there will be a lot of cows running through the new chute this fall. 

The 656 worked ok but it was a bit noisy.

 

I got a 220v pump put in the tack room and man oh man is it quiet. 

Will sure make life around the chute more enjoyable!

 

I like that a lot. Now you need to donate your old chute to a pauper south of you!

[hobbyfarm]

4 hours ago, sandhiller said:

Starting with branding next weekend, there will be a lot of cows running through the new chute this fall. 

The 656 worked ok but it was a bit noisy.

 

I got a 220v pump put in the tack room and man oh man is it quiet. 

Will sure make life around the chute more enjoyable!

 

Nice set up.  The new pump looks very similar to the trash compactor set ups in the big box stores.  

We run our 656 at idle for about 2 days straight each year on a potting soil mixer using both pto and hydraulic remote.  Know what you mean about the noise.

[hobbyfarm]

 

This guy came out of a belted galloway in late March.  I bought a few animals  from my seed dealer over winter.  I wanted to stay black but he had a random belted cow and heifer that were pretty good.  We don't creep feed.  Probably should but we move the cattle every 2 days or so and that would be one more thing to move. 

[rrr4quality]

I put my cows back on the hay field, didn’t look like I’d get another cutting off. Took these pictures on the way home from church.

[sandhiller]

Ok boys, I got a story for ya 

And if I didn't know the story teller I'm not sure I'd believe it.

So a neighbor called, he shipped today and had one of Ruth's pairs come in with his.

He left em in the corrals, no water, I'm branding tomorrow almost dark 

Well crap better go get her now.

Oh and by the way she is on the fight and will take anybody gets in the pen with her. Good luck!

I get over there with about 30 minutes of daylight left.

They wasn't lyin, I walked up to the pen and she played the sucker rod and RR tie fence like a Spanish guitar.

She wouldn't leave the center of the pen unless it was to chase me out and it was gettin dark.

I looked in the back of the pickup for something to go to war with and all I could find was a shovel.

She come at me and I made the diggin end ring. She musta liked that sound cuz she stayed close enough to me to play her a song with it.

Back outta the pen I went.

After all I'm not like the rocket surgeon in the "Play stupid games" thread.🤕

So she's back to the middle of the pen puttin a ton of dirt in the air so out of frustration I threw a shovel full of dirt at her, hit square in the head and she stopped.

I thought, hmmmmmm.

So I  hit her in the head with another shovel full and she took two steps back.

Ha, got you now. I am blowing your mind

I moved her through the gate out of the pen down the alley way with shovel loads of dirt.

She balked at the trailer so I hit her in the azz with another dirt bomb, her and her calf jumped in, I slammed the gate and another successful cowboy story is in the books.

 

Cute little 4H calf she probably was.😆

 

Don't remember John Wayne using a shovel to move steers in The Cowboys🤠

 

[ray54]

😵 Cows who knows what they will do.  Been very careful of what we keep after a very bad accident here over 20 years ago.  

I have a neighbor that works at being  a big pain some times.  Calls and says he had one of mine in the corral. Better get here she has been penned 3 days no hay or water. Has a very poorly layed out corral to load a goose neck.  She was like Jeff's , all stirred up. Move 2 panels he had to make a wing, stole a very small flake of hay. After most of a hour she ran right in. The son of B never came out of his house .

My son says keep right on going taker another 20 miles to the auction. I did not want to loss that much on her, as beside the 3 days of dry corral, grass was just starting to take off. Turned her with some old cows. She genitaled right back down. Never got anything like that again.

I hind site I think he was trying to train his dogs on her. I sure never expected her to settle down like she did.

 

[Lazy WP]

46 minutes ago, sandhiller said:

Ok boys, I got a story for ya 

And if I didn't know the story teller I'm not sure I'd believe it.

So a neighbor called, he shipped today and had one of Ruth's pairs come in with his.

He left em in the corrals, no water, I'm branding tomorrow almost dark 

Well crap better go get her now.

Oh and by the way she is on the fight and will take anybody gets in the pen with her. Good luck!

I get over there with about 30 minutes of daylight left.

They wasn't lyin, I walked up to the pen and she played the sucker rod and RR tie fence like a Spanish guitar.

She wouldn't leave the center of the pen unless it was to chase me out and it was gettin dark.

I looked in the back of the pickup for something to go to war with and all I could find was a shovel.

She come at me and I made the diggin end ring. She musta liked that sound cuz she stayed close enough to me to play her a song with it.

Back outta the pen I went.

After all I'm not like the rocket surgeon in the "Play stupid games" thread.🤕

So she's back to the middle of the pen puttin a ton of dirt in the air so out of frustration I threw a shovel full of dirt at her, hit square in the head and she stopped.

I thought, hmmmmmm.

So I  hit her in the head with another shovel full and she took two steps back.

Ha, got you now. I am blowing your mind

I moved her through the gate out of the pen down the alley way with shovel loads of dirt.

She balked at the trailer so I hit her in the azz with another dirt bomb, her and her calf jumped in, I slammed the gate and another successful cowboy story is in the books.

 

Cute little 4H calf she probably was.😆

 

Don't remember John Wayne using a shovel to move steers in The Cowboys🤠

 

Did something similar with one of your neighbors. Sorted off one of their heifers for the third time that week. Called Phill and told him either you keep her home, or pick her up in Valentine. 
He said her owner was from Iowa and wouldn’t be impressed. I said she will be on our scale, but she is a tad bit edgy. You might wanna leave her in the trailer over night if you come get her.

He loaded her up, I hauled her to Valentine the following Monday. 
A week later he told me I wasn’t  kidding and the check was on the way to Iowa. 

[sandhiller]

11 minutes ago, ray54 said:

😵 Cows who knows what they will do.  Been very careful of what we keep after a very bad accident here over 20 years ago.  

I have a neighbor that works at being  a big pain some times.  Calls and says he had one of mine in the corral. Better get here she has been penned 3 days no hay or water. Has a very poorly layed out corral to load a goose neck.  She was like Jeff's , all stirred up. Move 2 panels he had to make a wing, stole a very small flake of hay. After most of a hour she ran right in. The son of B never came out of his house .

My son says keep right on going taker another 20 miles to the auction. I did not want to loss that much on her, as beside the 3 days of dry corral, grass was just starting to take off. Turned her with some old cows. She genitaled right back down. Never got anything like that again.

I hind site I think he was trying to train his dogs on her. I sure never expected her to settle down like she did.

 

I'm glad she settled down for you Ray. 

I am sure this old gal will to. 

She was just out of her element, now that she is back in her own pasture and once she finds her "girl buddies" she will be fine. 

If that SOB was siccing his dogs on your cow that is about as low as you can go. 

He needs a meeting with a 2x4 up along side his head.