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Post by smokinm on Jul 6, 2020 17:04:41 GMT -6
Missing a lot of the originals and some good ones on here. I know it got a little catty here for awhile but had hoped they would come back. I see M5 some now after a little break but Randy, Highgrit, Jehosafat, and abunch of others seem to have disappeared. Hope they are well and it gets tiresome sometimes but would love to see them contribute again. Hopefully they are busy and will be back.
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Post by bulltrader on Jul 6, 2020 19:07:32 GMT -6
I will tell them to get their butt back to talking
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Post by M-5 on Jul 6, 2020 19:22:23 GMT -6
They are still around. I check in a few times a day to see if anything needs cleaning up.
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Post by chuckie on Jul 9, 2020 8:31:00 GMT -6
I think a lot of people are busy with farming and chores. So much going on and many are trying to stay away from all the negative crap going on with the democrats. There are days that I just don't turn on the news as it is a constant short tape of the same thing over and over. I get sick of hearing the same short tape being played over and over.
But at the same time, I want to know if there is a major change going on around me. I don't want to be caught off guard.
Keeping up the hay fields, crops, cows and calves and repairs that come along this time of the year sort of limits many to their free time. Maybe they will catch a breather and jump back on.
I hope all is well with them
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Post by ebenezer on Jul 10, 2020 6:57:12 GMT -6
Some of the true negativity that comes from sensational posting and posters drives a short term spike but deadens a site. Often seen but the guards comes down, the events happen and then the tone is set. That pretty much came and went in one person. He wrecked the other site and was allowed to set a tone here. Too bad. As Randy Travis ang, "I told you so..."
Many are tired of the politics of beef. It is a Pandora's box of politics and greed beyond the individual. Many are beyond the basic learning. Most know if they prefer Ford or Dodge. And the debates of cattle selection by art, eye, EPDs, gurus or on the fly have been hashed out. Honestly, if I have a Vet need I use a Vet and do not treat by public opinion.
The real concern for me is if the society can survive the stupidity of cultural ignorance and lies. Guilt can be doled out with limits by the self-proclaimed victims. Whites are guilty by historical linkage but the capturing blacks of Africa are not. Americans are guilty but Italian decedents of Roman slave owners are not. Americans are guilty in the current generation but the current generation of Germans are not guilty of the Holocaust. Current actual criminals are not guilty as products of their environment if they are black. Are biracial people partly guilty; the white part of them? So the "what are you breeding" and "I like a bull in spite of his awful EPDS - what do you think" are pretty lame topics for most right now with culture and virus.
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Post by 3LT Farms on Jul 10, 2020 14:37:58 GMT -6
I'm still around, just been real busy lately. Haven't had much of a chance to do anything but check once or twice a week to see if y'all burned the place down yet. Hopefully here soon things will slow down a little and I can spenore time here.
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Post by highgrit on Jul 17, 2020 20:54:52 GMT -6
Scared of catching the China flu been in hiding.
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Post by dave on Jul 19, 2020 15:41:59 GMT -6
It seems to me to be a lot of links to articles as opposed to original discussion. So I check in once or twice a week but just don't see much worth commenting on.
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Post by smokinm on Jul 20, 2020 11:29:10 GMT -6
The politics get old but are interesting all at the same time. Really do miss the valuable input on both boards from a lot of the originals. A lot to learn from them and very interesting to see parts of their operations.
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Post by chuckie on Jul 21, 2020 8:50:28 GMT -6
My operation stays the same. Not high tech at all. Cows are still making that tremendous mud wallow under the trees. They all lay in the hole and urniate while laying there. Looks much like watery quicksand, except it is clay mud. The hole never goes dry as they keep it hydrated. They lay on one side then the other. Every single cow I own comes up to the barn covered in a mud clay pack. I guess I could sell it by the jar to women. Ha-ha!!
The part that I don't like is when I am out there and they are in a group and I try to walk through them. Their tails are wet with the mud and they always swat me with it. It is wet and gooey. I will have to get a picture of them once again. Years ago on the other thread, people would ask me why my cows were always so muddy. With the heat now around 95* and the horse flies swarming, the mud is very cool and the flies cannot bite through a layer of mud.
The mud is probably 2 feet deep in the center. So they have to coat both sides.
Funny how each generation learns what the mud hole is all about. The cows at the other farm do not make these mud wallows. Here at the house, they have made two of them. I can honestly say that I have never seen another herd covered in heavy clay mud grazing out in other pastures.
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Post by bulltrader on Jul 21, 2020 14:51:40 GMT -6
I'm going to bet the herd with the mud hole does not have water they can get in such as a pond or stream
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Post by tcranch on Jul 22, 2020 6:56:07 GMT -6
I check in but not as much. I avoid politics, religion and most controversial topics.
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Post by chuckie on Jul 24, 2020 7:31:40 GMT -6
I'm going to bet the herd with the mud hole does not have water they can get in such as a pond or stream You are correct bulltrader! Now the two bottle babies that I am raising are making a mud hole under my Burr Oak tree. Often they are standing in the mud when it is hot. I noticed that the tree is putting on a lot of new growth with the nitrogen coming from the manure and urine they are adding to it. The mud is getting ankle deep. Funny how they have learned nothing from the other herd and act the same way the mamma cow did as well. If you get behind these two, they both will kick. None of the others do that, just from this line of cows. I do not like this habit at all. I am amazed at the amount of water and milk these two drink. Of course they get 1 gallon of milk split into 2 feedings a day, and I have two containers, one being 15 gallons and the other 20. I fill this up twice a day. Often when I fill it up, both might have one inch of water left in it. I remember reading where a grown cow drinks 20 gallons a day. With these being 4 months old, I am going to say they drink a lot more than 20 when grown in the heat |
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Post by okie on Aug 27, 2020 14:21:02 GMT -6
I'm still around and lurk once a week or so. I'm not directly involved with cattle anymore so I don't post much, although it's still very near and dear to me.
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Post by smokinm on Aug 28, 2020 4:21:35 GMT -6
Good to see you still around Okie. How’s the hotshot business going? If your ever up around central Virginia and need a break would love to visit with you.
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