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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1849217" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>Whitey's calves are 6 months old now, so Lisa and Joe brought the Angus steer over Saturday, when they came to move their 220 + calves over to what will be Scott's cotton field, He won't plant that til mid-May, but will plow it under this week. That steer ought to weigh 500 lbs, or damned close to it. Lisa already has it and the Ayshire heifer eating feed some. My plan was to turn it out in the Kudzu pasture, and let it eat that 26% Kudzu til we took the first load of the Ang x Corr steers to the sale in July. But, that lasted all of about maybe 30-45 minutes,. We had Gail and her calves on that Kudzu pasture, and when she heard that calf bawling, here she came from the back of the place, and took it! And it went right to nursing her. So, Gail the Angus steer, and Gail's 3 calves are in the arena, I am headed down there at 6AM in the morning to get it. Clay's boss said he'd give me $2.50/lb for it. I am picking it up, and we gonna go ahead and wean Gail's grafted Fleckveih/Braunveih heifer that Clay wanted...so I am bringing it too. She is 5 months old now, and Clay is just gonna keep her at his boss's place on that mega-growth mix he feeds his Brangus x Fla Scrub calves on. No one has seen Gail nursing any of the Corr cows' calves, or seen her even try to take one. I guess that weaned calf bawling for momma was a different story. She had to feed 4 Saturday and today, but in the morning she will just have the two 1/2 Brahmas to finish raising, They get weaned in June. The Gyrr calf from our Guers- Hereford cow up at Scott's brother's place will get weaned and come home in July. She, Gail and Whitey will all calve again between Oct and Dec. The Jers/Guernsey and Jeresy/Brown Swiss heifers just calved in March, and Lisa will AI them end of May. The lady decided <em>not</em> to graft calves on them. She is just letting them raise our 2 calves, but she is milking them and feeding 2 bottle calves with them. And has some left over to churn butter. They look great! They are in good flesh, fat even for a dairy cow, and they are really making the milk. Scott's custom feed mix is doing its job. Question for [USER=25884]@farmerjan[/USER] and [USER=39373]@MurraysMutts[/USER] : Is that a good idea for her to <em>not</em> graft those bottle calves, since we intend for them to be nurse cows, too, if needed? Dunno why the lady didn't want to graft them...those are the 2 gentlest cows I have ever seen. Maybe let her do what she's doing this year, but start grafting with their next calves in February? Or just let her keep on doing it like she is now? </p><p></p><p>End of the month, Clay and I will go down there and steer the April bull calves, ear tag them all, and gonna move my Brangus bull and those Corr heifers back to the Kudzu place. They should all be bred now, between that MFB and the Brangus, so won't have to worry about them getting bred to those two big bulls we got from Scott's brother. They are going home by June. We are not gonna graze that old dove field anymore this year. We are gonna sow some rabbit food plots on it, and turn the hatched pheasants out on it. It already has couple of coveys of wild quail, and plenty of rabbits on it. </p><p></p><p>So right now, we have five 1/2 Brah heifers on the ground for Zeke's herd. And 5 more coming between October and February. Gail will be the only one Scott and I will have to fool with as far as grafting calves. It will be up to Lisa, Scott's brother, and the lady raising those two 1/2 Jerseys as to what they do with them. <em>If</em> that dairy has bred some more of its heifers to that Brahma, and <em>if</em> they end up with another orphan heifer, we will buy it to graft onto Gail. If not, we will buy beef steers or Holstein steers to put on her. and sell them at weaning! </p><p></p><p>What I had <em>rather</em> do with those five 1/2 Br 1/2 Dairy heifers each year, is sell them at about 14-15 months old as opens. And put the money into Zeke's trust fund. Zeke seems to lose interest in them now that they are bigger. He goes to see Gail about every day and will play with her calves some, but right now he is into the puppies and the chicks hatching out. Me and Scott are keeping our fingers crossed. He or I neither one gives a tinker's damn about calving out heifers!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1849217, member: 40587"] Whitey's calves are 6 months old now, so Lisa and Joe brought the Angus steer over Saturday, when they came to move their 220 + calves over to what will be Scott's cotton field, He won't plant that til mid-May, but will plow it under this week. That steer ought to weigh 500 lbs, or damned close to it. Lisa already has it and the Ayshire heifer eating feed some. My plan was to turn it out in the Kudzu pasture, and let it eat that 26% Kudzu til we took the first load of the Ang x Corr steers to the sale in July. But, that lasted all of about maybe 30-45 minutes,. We had Gail and her calves on that Kudzu pasture, and when she heard that calf bawling, here she came from the back of the place, and took it! And it went right to nursing her. So, Gail the Angus steer, and Gail's 3 calves are in the arena, I am headed down there at 6AM in the morning to get it. Clay's boss said he'd give me $2.50/lb for it. I am picking it up, and we gonna go ahead and wean Gail's grafted Fleckveih/Braunveih heifer that Clay wanted...so I am bringing it too. She is 5 months old now, and Clay is just gonna keep her at his boss's place on that mega-growth mix he feeds his Brangus x Fla Scrub calves on. No one has seen Gail nursing any of the Corr cows' calves, or seen her even try to take one. I guess that weaned calf bawling for momma was a different story. She had to feed 4 Saturday and today, but in the morning she will just have the two 1/2 Brahmas to finish raising, They get weaned in June. The Gyrr calf from our Guers- Hereford cow up at Scott's brother's place will get weaned and come home in July. She, Gail and Whitey will all calve again between Oct and Dec. The Jers/Guernsey and Jeresy/Brown Swiss heifers just calved in March, and Lisa will AI them end of May. The lady decided [I]not[/I] to graft calves on them. She is just letting them raise our 2 calves, but she is milking them and feeding 2 bottle calves with them. And has some left over to churn butter. They look great! They are in good flesh, fat even for a dairy cow, and they are really making the milk. Scott's custom feed mix is doing its job. Question for [USER=25884]@farmerjan[/USER] and [USER=39373]@MurraysMutts[/USER] : Is that a good idea for her to [I]not[/I] graft those bottle calves, since we intend for them to be nurse cows, too, if needed? Dunno why the lady didn't want to graft them...those are the 2 gentlest cows I have ever seen. Maybe let her do what she's doing this year, but start grafting with their next calves in February? Or just let her keep on doing it like she is now? End of the month, Clay and I will go down there and steer the April bull calves, ear tag them all, and gonna move my Brangus bull and those Corr heifers back to the Kudzu place. They should all be bred now, between that MFB and the Brangus, so won't have to worry about them getting bred to those two big bulls we got from Scott's brother. They are going home by June. We are not gonna graze that old dove field anymore this year. We are gonna sow some rabbit food plots on it, and turn the hatched pheasants out on it. It already has couple of coveys of wild quail, and plenty of rabbits on it. So right now, we have five 1/2 Brah heifers on the ground for Zeke's herd. And 5 more coming between October and February. Gail will be the only one Scott and I will have to fool with as far as grafting calves. It will be up to Lisa, Scott's brother, and the lady raising those two 1/2 Jerseys as to what they do with them. [I]If[/I] that dairy has bred some more of its heifers to that Brahma, and [I]if[/I] they end up with another orphan heifer, we will buy it to graft onto Gail. If not, we will buy beef steers or Holstein steers to put on her. and sell them at weaning! What I had [I]rather[/I] do with those five 1/2 Br 1/2 Dairy heifers each year, is sell them at about 14-15 months old as opens. And put the money into Zeke's trust fund. Zeke seems to lose interest in them now that they are bigger. He goes to see Gail about every day and will play with her calves some, but right now he is into the puppies and the chicks hatching out. Me and Scott are keeping our fingers crossed. He or I neither one gives a tinker's damn about calving out heifers! [/QUOTE]
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