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With the new Hereford bull being stifled from fighting off bull that came over the fence from a neighboring property, it caused a huge problem and change of plans. Had to turn our big 5 year old bull out to take the place of the injured bull. We did not want to use the older bull because he has...

The pump handle or S tail ( I’ve heard it called both is a sure sign they are beginning to calve. I’ve noticed the off set tail a lot too leading up to calving. I always figured they were springing heavy and swollen there is what made the tail offset to the side. Haven’t really paid attention...

I'm not overly concerned about it not being black. We will sell calves in a Hereford Influence sale. They are graded and grouped with other similar size calves and the dock isn't nearly as much in those sales.

Yeah, I agree he doesn’t look overly impressive at this stage. Just short of 3 months old, if he does like his half siblings have done he should grow into a better looking animal. The sire is what I would consider CE bull, 70 lbs is about tops for his calves at birth even from cows, and it takes...

That’s a complaint I have with a lot of cattle nowadays is that the bulls lack a masculine look. I think sometimes it’s tied to an earlier maturing vs later maturing situation. The calf that I passed over, I liked extremely well, he was born the same day as this one and looked more masculine...

Most years I try to keep back a bull calf for a spare. This was not my first choice, but due to the other calf having been linebred on both sides, this calf only has the sires line on one side. This calf should have a bit more frame, The dam is a 3rd calf purebred but not registered Hereford...

We use more ground beef than anything else too. I see nothing wrong with using longhorn or longhorn cross for one’s own beef or even marketing as such. We are planning on having a longhorn cross steer processed this fall My thinking is longhorns are slower growing and don’t have the weight...

@gcreekrch @MurraysMutts IF the rain keeps up the grass should hold up decent, but the money ain’t holding so we’ll probably sell all of them in a month or so. Otherwise I’d probably almost all of the heifers.

I hope it stays good for a while.

September and October calves, Most of these are by our BWF bull, The rwf is out of a Beefmaster x Hereford cow. The little dinky heifer is out of a SimAngus heifer and a smaller black bull I had. The other SimAngus heifer had a good calf by the same bull. Hoping the market holds up for another...

I’ve always been on the side of not wanting to breed them too close, but I realize it’s done often to a point. This was a situation of having a heifer bull ( sire of several of the heifers) and wanting to bring in a bit bigger bull instead of another heifer bull. We had a string of bad at...

I’ve had some crazy bought Limousin calves and some from the same groups were fairly calm. Only had one bull and he was one of the calmest bulls I’ve had. All that said they were real popular here in the 80’s and 90’s and a lot of them at that time were crazy. Have heard folks say that their...

My opinion, whether you are selling direct farm to table or at the stockyards, the longhorn is going to be a negative. The calves will likely be smaller, grow slower and lighter at time processing, than straight beef breed calves. The quality of the meat may not be quite as good either. For beef...

Patch calved Tuesday, saw her with her tail out and a little over 2 hours later he was up nursing. Father daughter mating.

Maybe, I’ve never been to a public swimming pool so I don’t know🤔😂 Although after thinking about it, I can kind of imagine that a public pool in this area would be similar, probably lots of folks running their mouth back and forth, probably some fights. So if that’s what you were reading into it...

As of later this morning all was peaceful. Our cattle were laying around in the shade, bull included. The neighbor bull was standing by the fence watching,

Yeah, the most of that property has been let go by previous owners and the current one is no different except she insists on running a few cattle on it. At first they had several horses too. What little open space on it is pretty much covered with blackberry briars and multi flora roses, it's...

I’m glad that works for you, I wish it did for me. We employ a similar strategy in trying to get them back , but we help them along. We try in the evening when they are out bawling and looking for the cow, we’ll get behind and also try to head them too them and try to move them along towards an...

Got the fence patched back up from the Angus bull and got him up and the owner came and got him this morning. Now this evening it's back to patching fence after the JerseyX worked on it again last night. Our bull and most all the cows with calves were fastened in the front field, so it wasn't a...

That’s probably what it will end up being.