Recent content by Aaron

Barnes dehorner followed by cauterizing with Rhinehart dehorner. Easy peasy.

No. Passive immunity through colostrum has been sufficient.

Still using it. Haven't had any scour or mastitis issues since I started. Pinkeye has been eliminated and foot rot is minimal to non-existant. They cant make claims about pinkeye and footrot but other testimonials have noted the same effect. I do all the cows and heifers once a year, and...

I don't see these prices coming down for several years, if ever. Gonna see contraction in cowherd in North America like never before in the next 3-4 years. Everyone that rode the wave in 2014 is 10 years older and there are no new 25 year olds jumping in with a million in debt to replace the...

Bought one yesterday at farm auction. $1000 ($737 US). Any good? It's about as mint shape as you can get for 40 year old implement, just needs tires and hoses due to age. 8 shanks. Enough for my needs. Just want it to pull out rock up to 8" deep. Already took tires off before I snapped pic.

Always had a little love for the Simms 😉. Grew up around Simms/Chars/Herfs as kid, so it's come full circle. No love whatsoever for the Chars, but if they net me an extra $5-10k a year, it helps pay the mortgage on the next round of farm land acquisitions.

The last place a guy wants his cattle is in the shade of trees all day. Cattle don't gain much weight where the grass don't grow. I've naturally eliminated all of the dark red Hereford cows from the herd for this reason; they were the first to run for shade on a hot day and last ones to leave.

Yep. White and buckskin cattle bring the premiums in Canada. No one in North America pays more for feeder cattle than the Amish and Mennonite farmers in Southern Ontario with 50-100 head feedlots. As was told to myself and others by a very well known auctioneer/order buyer, those guys have...

Nah, the old guy is a gentle giant. He likes an actual challenge. He'd love to take on the Simm that is same age. But I keep them separated for that reason.

My final plan once I reached 100 cows and had a small F1 cowherd component was to introduce either Angus or Charolais for the terminal cross. Being that Char cross cattle are an easy 10-20 cents over blacks here, it's a simple decision. Picked this guy up yesterday and will be covering my...

Talking to the local guys in their 50s and up, none are looking to expand beyond their pre-drought cow numbers. Equipment, land and labor is too expensive to hang a fresh new rope of 1M debt around your neck at age 55 and 8% interest. Most are looking to hit the cows hard this fall (15-20%...

You had me until auto trans. If it ain't a stick, it ain't worth ****.