Which bull would you pick?

[ALACOWMAN]

its easy killed,, spray it early spring before it blooms. ive sprayed it as soon as a warm Feb. day. for best results, dont harm the clover that way either.. 2-4-D will do a great job with timing... bushhogging will not control it... its gonna bloom no matter if its a 1/2 inch high

[mrvictordomino]

its easy killed,, spray it early spring before it blooms. ive sprayed it as soon as a warm Feb. day. for best results, dont harm the clover that way either.. 2-4-D will do a great job with timing... bushhogging will not control it... its gonna bloom no matter if its a 1/2 inch high

Thanks, I will have to do it.....Taking over here. Too late for this year though.

[ALACOWMAN]

i didnt spray this year either fuel and chemicals prices ridiculous... with hay season around the corner ill be spending enough on 4 dollar fuel...

[SSGenetics]

i didnt spray this year either fuel and chemicals prices ridiculous... with hay season around the corner ill be spending enough on 4 dollar fuel...

Same here.... The thistle is pretty bad this year too. Im just spot spraying it.

I did mix up some 2-4-D in the 300 gallon boom sprayer a few weeks ago to spray a hill that was looking pretty bad. Got across the bridge just about 100 yards from the field and the bottom of the tank just gave out. Lost it all. Bushhogging will have to do this year....

[tom4018]

Steve,
Thanks for posting the pictures, I always like the feedback from other folks perspectives.
The first bull is twenty-five days older than the second one.
Both bulls will be slick haired...All of our cattle are. Very important in fescue country.
The second bull's dam was injured in a tractor incident feeding hay as a two year old nursing her first
calf. Not anything geneticly. What is most impressive was the fact she was crippled and lost
most of her mobility and became very, very thin. I was sure she would not get bred back and
couldn't send her to town in the condition she was in so I took her to the commerial herd and
just let her mend up and gain some weight so I could sell her. To my surprize, she was bred
and had this bull. She has since calved again and had a very good bull but due to a bad attitude,
he got an attitude adjustment with the knife. There was a fifty pound difference last fall when these
two were weighed. The second bull actually had better post weaning performance since there was
a wider spread between the two at weaning. Both bulls will work on heifers.
Like some of the comments, one will just select on personal preference.
DM

They both look good, in pics I just preferred #1. Your cattle always looks good in pictures, hope you took no offense.

I see you have the yellow weed over in your part of Ky too.

No offence here Tom, just always admired the younger bull since I knew his history. Tremendous fertility demonstrated
in that young cow. We do have that yellow weed here and it is getting worse. Will have to get on a weed control program
next spring, or if anyone has had this weed, I would like suggestions on what to do with it.
DM

I talked with our extension agent about the weed, anything that kills it gets your clover. He said a good fertility program to help the grass out grow was about as good as you do with out starting over. He said the seed bank on it and other weed is so high that even if you kill everything it will come back.

Remember me next year if you got any white faced girls you need to sell.

[ALACOWMAN]

look at the farm lands that aint planted yet,, there covered solid yellow with it... from no competition,,, shallow root broad leaf you can spray it early enough to not harm clovers,, this is one weed i dont think can be eradicated, just controlled