Well, we are NOT going to try to BBQ that steer whole at our Labor Day dove shoot. he will be weaned in July, and we are giving him to this boy to raise. There is an elderly black lady, Miss Mattie, that lives in a house on Scott's family's place. I bet she is in her 80's. Her late husband worked on the farm for Scott;s grand pa and dad, and when he died, Miss Mattie just stayed on in the house. This happens a lot with farmers in the rural south. Scott's family has always taken care of her, too..,makes sure she has food, medicine, ride to the doctor and to town, etc. She has no utility bills..Scott pays them. She has a grandson ( though we suspect it is really a great-grandson) that lives with her. He is about 17 and has Down's Syndrone but is highly-functioning. Probably about 9-10 yrs old emotionally and intellectually. The boy has a heart of gold, and is freakishly strong. I am talking if he wanted to play a joke on you, he might pick up the back of your truck and set it over in a ditch! But the boy wouldn't fight for any reason, and got picked on a lot by other kids because of that. (And remember this because it is a part of the next thread I am gonna post ). Anytime Scott goes to do something Ezekiel..we call him Zeke..is right there wanting to go with him and help. And he is good help. You give him something to do...make sure he understands...and you never have to check on him again. Scott and I pay him to feed our bird dogs and beagles. The pens and kennels are always clean and have fresh water in them. And I suspect our dogs get a lot of petting and grooming and loving that most hunting dogs don't get. Every time I go down there, I drive slow by their place honk the horn and here he comes on his bicycle down to the Kudzu field. He jumps up on the trailer to see what horses i brought. And I always saddle something and let him ride it around our corral whenever I come down and we aren't using the corral. .
Any way, several weeks ago Zeke and Miss Mattie had something horrible happen. Miss Mattie ended up with a broke hip and Zeke was roughed up pretty bad. So, me and Scott are gonna pay Zeke to feed this steer out for a year. and we will buy the feed, then we gonna process it and put it in the freezer for Zeke and Miss Mattie. In back of their house is about a 4-acre. fenced in, grown up, old milk cow pasture. Scott and Zeke repaired what needed to be fixed on that old fence today, actually.
Also, the 2 Corriente cows, bred to the black MFB, that I kept out of that last bunch I got from Mexico, have calved. Both had black heifer calves. And we had one bull calf from the blue roan Corr I got in that first load of 100. And his sire is a black Mexican fighting bull. He is about 3 months old now, and you can tell the difference in him and the pure Corr calves. He is not as beefy as our Corr x Brangus calves, but a little heavier built than the pure Corrs. So, we are thinking 1/2 Corr x 1/2 Mexican fighting bull might wean a better , heavier calf, with no more inputs than the Corrs. We will be tickled to death if the horns on these are Mexican fighting bull shaped vs Corr. We didn't cut that bull calf, and at weaning we gonna take him and these 2 heifers to Zeke to raise too. Gonna pay him more, of course, and these will end up being the gentlest, brokest, half Mexican fighting cattle there is. with Zeke raising them. We will use them to breed more like them, And use this bull instead of a pure Corr bull for clean-up. I hate to wait 2 years to see how calves from these half and halves bred to our Ultrablacks or Brangus will work for us vs the Corr x Brangus/Ultrablacks. I told George today, when he called needing some mor Chi bulls, to go ahead and find me 25 half Corr-half MFB cows, bred or open, and get 10 of them black. Doesn't matter about the color on the other 15. I will sell the 10 black ones to the guy that bought the black ones out of the last 2 loads, for more than enough to cover what all 25 cost and transportation. Then I could have some of those calves from our black bulls in as little as 10 months...maybe 9.
Any way, several weeks ago Zeke and Miss Mattie had something horrible happen. Miss Mattie ended up with a broke hip and Zeke was roughed up pretty bad. So, me and Scott are gonna pay Zeke to feed this steer out for a year. and we will buy the feed, then we gonna process it and put it in the freezer for Zeke and Miss Mattie. In back of their house is about a 4-acre. fenced in, grown up, old milk cow pasture. Scott and Zeke repaired what needed to be fixed on that old fence today, actually.
Also, the 2 Corriente cows, bred to the black MFB, that I kept out of that last bunch I got from Mexico, have calved. Both had black heifer calves. And we had one bull calf from the blue roan Corr I got in that first load of 100. And his sire is a black Mexican fighting bull. He is about 3 months old now, and you can tell the difference in him and the pure Corr calves. He is not as beefy as our Corr x Brangus calves, but a little heavier built than the pure Corrs. So, we are thinking 1/2 Corr x 1/2 Mexican fighting bull might wean a better , heavier calf, with no more inputs than the Corrs. We will be tickled to death if the horns on these are Mexican fighting bull shaped vs Corr. We didn't cut that bull calf, and at weaning we gonna take him and these 2 heifers to Zeke to raise too. Gonna pay him more, of course, and these will end up being the gentlest, brokest, half Mexican fighting cattle there is. with Zeke raising them. We will use them to breed more like them, And use this bull instead of a pure Corr bull for clean-up. I hate to wait 2 years to see how calves from these half and halves bred to our Ultrablacks or Brangus will work for us vs the Corr x Brangus/Ultrablacks. I told George today, when he called needing some mor Chi bulls, to go ahead and find me 25 half Corr-half MFB cows, bred or open, and get 10 of them black. Doesn't matter about the color on the other 15. I will sell the 10 black ones to the guy that bought the black ones out of the last 2 loads, for more than enough to cover what all 25 cost and transportation. Then I could have some of those calves from our black bulls in as little as 10 months...maybe 9.
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