Recent content by CattleAnnie

Sorry, can't give a vote on this poll, as basically the question to me boils down to "should a boy give a girl respect"...which is just too vague a question for me to try answer, could just as easily read "should a girl give a boy respect". Respect is earned and given as meritted to most people...

Well, I'm sure no expert, but here's what works for me...I was lucky enough as a kid to have an old fellow that won the CFR Team Roping at our local team roping events. He always like to give pointers to kids that were interested in learning. It's kind of hard for me to explain (easier to...

Bar 5 Spring Spectacular Production Sale Team Auction Sales (satelite auction) Membership signup is free and it's really kind of neat to see how these sales work (nope - not promoting their site, just adding it for those interested in the cattle). Some dandy Simmental, Black and Red Angus...

http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department ... endocument The most tragic of these accidents are the incredible number of children lost forever to their families. I posted the above link from Victoria's site as a reminder to all farm families - never relax your vigilance on children on...

Wow...sure didn't mean to start a range war with my questions about First Edition. :oops: Anyway, ended up the proud owner of a fairly nice yearling son of FE (just my opinion, though). I'll try and post a pic or two tomorrow, as it was getting dark when we brought him home. Sure was...

"A Bull's Worth" Feb.27/06 by S. Yewsuk for the Cattleman's Corner of The Grain News Things in the cattle industry have been improving as time passes. Markets are reopening to us and prices are rising, including for the cull cows and bulls. That's helping cattlemen to...

Just a word on tie downs.. Be darn careful if you use them when crossing rivers, bogs, etc. I know a foolish man who drownt a heck of a good horse crossing a river because he failed to undo his tie down. He was luckier than the horse and survived, but crying shame about the poor horse...

Mike, We used some old Jet fuel in our tractor with no ill results here. Dad had a friend who had to get rid of some, as it was out-dated for aircraft use, so we ended up with quite a few barrels of it for nada. Perfect, as it was during the first BSE year and money was sure tight so we were...

If you can have this seminar sometime not during calving or haying season, locate it closer to Edmonton than Calgary, and get a speaker in on predator control methods (snaring,trapping,etc) - then you can count me in. Please and thank you. Take care.

BRG, Wow! You are right about that lot number 1. Bet that who ever buys him won't be disappointed in the resulting calf crops. http://www.bigredgenetics.com/bigredgen ... 5B2%5D.pdf Take care.

I guess it depends on what you're after, mtnman. I own a female raised by the breeder that's having this sale, and they are big easy doing angus cattle. She weighs around the 1500lbs mark. I'd wager that if you told these gentlemen that they weren't raising 'real angus' they'd have a few...

Thanks everyone for the replies and a big thanks to LA for the birthweight. The sons I'm looking at have birthweights ranging from 89lbs to 110lbs, so I'm not too worried about calving difficulties on my mature cows if the bulls are properly built. Will have to bide my time as the sale isn't...

Flaboy, Sounds like you're having fun. I've got my hands full here right now too, as I'm currently starting two four year olds that I picked up (one is a big time over reactive kind of horse that loves to buck when saddled - so we've got a few kinks to get worked out yet before I step up on...

I was looking through an upcoming bull sale catalogue, and First Edition is listed as a reference sire. Anyone know what Hoff First Edition's (058 242) actual birth weight was? I can't seem to find it on his page. http://www.agonline.com/bullbarn/angblkepd.asp?ID=758 I'm interested in one of...

Personally I don't worry too much about the little coyotes. In all the years we've been here we've only lost one calf to coyotes - small runty thing who's mother had foot rot and couldn't defend her calf. On the other hand, I've lost 9 head of cows and calves over the last two summers to...