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Post by angusrancher on Feb 9, 2021 15:01:37 GMT -6
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Post by bulltrader on Feb 9, 2021 21:03:22 GMT -6
We have a trailer going within an hour and a half of there tonight. Corsica SD
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Post by angusrancher on Feb 9, 2021 21:52:18 GMT -6
We have a trailer going within an hour and a half of there tonight. Corsica SD It's cold. I hope they don't have any problems. Supposed to be down to -25 on Saturday night in western part of the state. |
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Post by chuckie on Feb 10, 2021 8:35:48 GMT -6
Looks like he made a good buy with this bull. I like everything about him. He ought to give you a lot of good babies that will hit the ground running!!
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Post by angusrancher on Feb 10, 2021 14:27:39 GMT -6
Looks like he made a good buy with this bull. I like everything about him. He ought to give you a lot of good babies that will hit the ground running!! Thank you. Certainly hope it's all good. |
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Post by chuckie on Feb 11, 2021 17:49:28 GMT -6
To be honest, I like a heavier birthweight. They seem to do better and grow off faster from what I can see. I have only had one calf I had to pull that was large and it was because his head and leg were turned back. But he came out OK and mama cow did good as well. Bought three heifers one time that had a really high BW that my husband took away from me. I kept telling him that I wanted them back and he would not bring them to me. He kept them on the other farm. Oh well, he paid for it somewhere along the line. I looked up her birthweight a minute ago, and it had dropped down to 6.0. But it had gone higher than that. My tiny brain cannot remember what it used to be. Your new bull has a great neck on him and I like his big forearms. He has all the three covered they are supposed to have as well. Butts, nuts, and guts. If you need me to, I can try him out the first year and give you a report how his calves do!  |
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Post by angusrancher on Feb 12, 2021 8:15:01 GMT -6
To be honest, I like a heavier birthweight. They seem to do better and grow off faster from what I can see. I have only had one calf I had to pull that was large and it was because his head and leg were turned back. But he came out OK and mama cow did good as well. Bought three heifers one time that had a really high BW that my husband took away from me. I kept telling him that I wanted them back and he would not bring them to me. He kept them on the other farm. Oh well, he paid for it somewhere along the line. I looked up her birthweight a minute ago, and it had dropped down to 6.0. But it had gone higher than that. My tiny brain cannot remember what it used to be. Your new bull has a great neck on him and I like his big forearms. He has all the three covered they are supposed to have as well. Butts, nuts, and guts. If you need me to, I can try him out the first year and give you a report how his calves do! LOL....too far away. I forget which bull it was now, but we had some heifers AI'd to a lower birth weight sire some years ago, that had very little predictability to what weight the calf weight would be. I know the bull is only 50% but the size of the calf was really a crap shoot, and some way too big. The smaller calves can't take as much cold to begin with, either. |
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Post by chuckie on Feb 12, 2021 10:33:10 GMT -6
I was wondering about that. When do you calve? You are a much bigger operation. Here, every tract of land is put in crops, and the land per acre sells high. So, if you already owned the land and decided to raise some cattle, then that works out. But to purchase more land going up to $6,000 an acre to put cattle on is nuts. If you have ground that does not have sand or white spots on it, then you get top dollar. You can always spot the white spots from the road. I have crop land, but it is good soil and right now, I don't need to increase what I am tending to.
There is one huge cattle farm down the road that is several thousand acres. It is not over crowded with cattle and they look great. I love driving by there and looking to see what they have. You drive for quite a few miles past the pasture and it is deep. They run a white bull, which I don't understand as they cut the heck out of the price here. He may be sending them up north when he sells as the price is much higher there.
But looking at your pictures, it looks like you ranch on "The Big Country." The movie with "The Big Muddy" river in it. (Gregory Peck) Except you have concrete swimming pools for the cattle. I loved that picture of the girls in their cement pond. Ha-ha!!
Looking at your pictures of the girls coming in, it looks like you have over a thousand cattle. That bull will be so happy!!
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Post by angusrancher on Feb 12, 2021 13:59:52 GMT -6
I was wondering about that. When do you calve? You are a much bigger operation. Here, every tract of land is put in crops, and the land per acre sells high. So, if you already owned the land and decided to raise some cattle, then that works out. But to purchase more land going up to $6,000 an acre to put cattle on is nuts. If you have ground that does not have sand or white spots on it, then you get top dollar. You can always spot the white spots from the road. I have crop land, but it is good soil and right now, I don't need to increase what I am tending to. There is one huge cattle farm down the road that is several thousand acres. It is not over crowded with cattle and they look great. I love driving by there and looking to see what they have. You drive for quite a few miles past the pasture and it is deep. They run a white bull, which I don't understand as they cut the heck out of the price here. He may be sending them up north when he sells as the price is much higher there. But looking at your pictures, it looks like you ranch on "The Big Country." The movie with "The Big Muddy" river in it. (Gregory Peck) Except you have concrete swimming pools for the cattle. I loved that picture of the girls in their cement pond. Ha-ha!! Looking at your pictures of the girls coming in, it looks like you have over a thousand cattle. That bull will be so happy!! We used to calve in February and March. The cold and storms during those months, especially, can be brutal. Dead calves can't be avoided when there's near zero visibility and snow too deep to get around, much less into the barns. The dock for frozen ears and tales on sale day is often ridiculous. Now the replacement heifers will start the third week in March, and the cows are scheduled to start ~ April 12. We used to raise quite a few acres of small grains, but have stopped. Wheat allergies are my kryptonite, and I don't miss it at all. Have planted the farm ground to some grass, and raise forage crops on the rest. Still expanding the cow herd slowly and run all of the calves over as yearlings. Last summer got bone dry so we'll see how that works out if it continues into spring. |
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Post by cowrancher75 on Feb 17, 2021 6:47:48 GMT -6
looks good
i need some bulls i'm going to check out some OHLDE ones next week
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Post by okie on Feb 17, 2021 17:56:19 GMT -6
Looks like he did really well! I like that pedigree, too. I saw the silviera bull in person and a bunch of progeny on the bextor bull. I think you'll like what you see. They keep them fed up but they don't really need it to do well. I know a guy that ran a lot of similar genetics on range in CA and they did just fine without help.
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Post by angusrancher on Feb 17, 2021 18:03:59 GMT -6
looks good i need some bulls i'm going to check out some OHLDE ones next week Keep us posted. Take a picture. |
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Post by cowrancher75 on Mar 13, 2021 20:38:51 GMT -6
looks good i need some bulls i'm going to check out some OHLDE ones next week Keep us posted. Take a picture. they didn't look good. slow growth bulls, pretty weak calves. |
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Post by chuckie on Mar 14, 2021 9:06:14 GMT -6
angusrancher, I noticed that one of the little heifers had just a little bit of her ears burned back from when the temps got so low and it snowed so deep. But it isn't bad at all. It looks pretty even on both and I am anxious to see what they will look like when she gets a little older. At first I thought it was just a smaller ear, but I can see the skin rim on the ends now.
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Post by angusrancher on Mar 15, 2021 9:41:31 GMT -6
Keep us posted. Take a picture. they didn't look good. slow growth bulls, pretty weak calves. That sucks. |
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