I'm not much informed on Simmental. One breed I've never owned...
He bred them all with the Brahma sexed semen. But if some don't take, he said we could re-breed them with that Simm. It was less than a week after I sold my Br x Chianina and my Br x Chi-Angus heifer that the client called about buying that herd of Brahmas for him, and a couple of days after that when I ran -up on this deal with the recip cows. And my client with the Brahmas told me I could bring those 16 cows down to his place. If I had known all of this before hand, I would have kept them, even though they gonna have @!%$# Corriente calves . As far as that goes, I could have sold the Br x Chianina to my client for $2250, since that is what he is gonna do with those Brahmas...breed half to Chianina and half to Charolais, then breed the F1s to the opposite bull. That heifer would have put him a whole year ahead of that game.
I did it. I am keeping the Ruger 44 mag semi-auto rifle and getting the heifer back. I gave him my half of the 4 remaining Corr heifers for her, and gonna sell her to my client for what the other 80 Brahma heifers cost.
When I saw these they had white Charolais calves on them form the donor cows, but yes, they were big heifers They were just weaning them ,as each calf got 200-something days old..is it 205?... and I:d guess they were 700 or close to it. I will ask Dan how much, next time I think of it. He did show me some 1/2 Fleckvieh..looked like the old timey red & white Simmentals.... recip cows that some of my cows had birthed. They were a little bigger than the red & white Simm cows I have seen, so might have gotten a little bit of high bread vinegar from that Simm/Braunvieh cross.
I guess he does it at actually 205 days because there are just 16 heifer calves, from just 2 donor dams. He had 2 -3 reach that age the same day, and all but one was weaned in about 6 days. The other was .... I think he said.... 3 weeks behind the others.
Jan, you ought to see him working a cow on the rail! And he has him circling the cow both ways almost as good as a g finished NRCHA contender! Don't know yet how he would do in the reining part yet. He needs about another year on him before he is started on that. I am going to tell Dan that it looks like NRCHA is going to be the way to go with this one. It just wouldn't be worth 6 figures to campaign a gelding in NCHA competition. If Dan wants to go that route, Reined Cowhorse, I am just gonna get him and my trainer friend together, and bow out of it. If he doesn't, I will go get him and bring him back and start trying him on the heel end. That was my plan anyway, until yesterday when Mr. Smith paid me that $17k for those cows! I been sitting on my hands all day to keep from picking up the phone and calling Dan to tell him I want to buy him! I had found a team of Percheron mules, 8 yr old mare m,ules...by a 16 hd Mammoth Jack and out of 2 full sister Percheron mares. They work single or double and they both ride. 16.2 hds. I had called Scott and told him about them. He said if I got them,. he was going to buy this rubber tired buckboard a neighbor had. We'd take the front bucket seats and the 2 rear bench seats out of his junked out Suburban, mount them on it and put a dog box on back, and we'd have us a quail hunting rig for sure. THAT'S what I need to do...I don't need that colt. I have had or trained 100's of horses in the last 62 years...500 I counted up one time in 2002..and only 2 or 3 had this certain something that is hard to explain to someone who hasn't experienced it. and it sounds stupid to try to explain it to regular people. Every once in a while...and I mean very rarely, there comes a horse that you and he (or she) somehow communicate at a sub-conscience level...best way I can explain it.. that he knows what you want...what you are about to do, before you verbally or via signal tell him. And you develope a sense of what he is about to do, or is thinking, or feels before he des it. Or shows it. An old horseman that took me under his wing as a kid, called it "becoming a Centaur". Anyway, sounds dumb, I know. Someone young enough and talented enough needs to get this horse.
I don't know him. Who is he? How was he going to contact me?
No not dumb.... not at all....
Sorry, That was routed wrong,,
Once again, I thought back on my Granddaddy's advice...a piece of advice that has served me wll through the years. and saved me tons of money. He said " Son, when you find that whatever that you have been looking for forever. And it is exactly how you wanted it. And you have the money to buy it. And it is priced way cheaper than others you have found. Make yourself walk away and sleep on it over night. Ask your self 'Is there any way I could possibly survive without that (whatever it is)?' If the answer is yes, you could survive without buying it, then don't."
