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Awesome, thank you :D

I bought the calves already weaned lol. Sorry I may be misreading that. He being the guy I bought my 3 steers from, the one I'm thinking about buying is also a full Jersey. He weighs around 750, should dress out around 450-475. He was on pasture during summer, on hay and being supplimented...

Things are going great :D I have gotten attached to them and they were named. I name my other animals that I eat and treat them like the rest of my group, so I figured why should these guys be any different? I've had people offering me $400 each for them, I'm debating it though, would yall...

:lol2: My uncle use to raise pigs and would give the ones he was keeping for himself to eat names like porkchop, bacon, sausage, etc. I usually give the animals we're going to eat names, I guess I just feel different with the calves because I just got them and they're bigger and adorable.

They've already been castrated :) Thanks yall, I'll try to not do any of that and remind myself they're for food. It'll definitely be hard though. When I first got into meat rabbits it was really hard, it's not as bad now, but it still bothers me some. So I'm not sure how this will turn out...

I called a few people around here that raise beef breeds, but none of them had any younger calves for sale. A couple of the others I called never called me back. Some of them told me to call them back around June/July and they'd have some then. We got in 3 Jersey steers a couple days ago. I...

Thank you! :) We're going to go look at some Jersey Steers and pick out which ones we want either this weekend or sometime next week. The guy is only 45ish minutes from us. We're getting some 4 month olds, I'll post some pictures once they're here.

thendrix: I'll keep that in mind for sure. Working with horses I've learned to never turn my back and forget about anything in the pasture. I've been charged, reared at, kicked at, bit, trampled, etc. :lol: lynnmcmahan: Thank you for your post :) Trust me, I know there's a big...

Thanks! :) I love goats milk, I use to milk my friends goats for her when she was too busy to, in return she'd give me some of the milk. I've been looking into getting some for a couple years now, I have a few friends that raise them, however they all raise nigerian dwarfs and I'm wanting...

Gale Seddon: Thank you for your post :) I understand where you're coming from, just to clear up some stuff, I don't plan on getting any dairy cows anytime soon. I had put up a ad for some calves and the guy called me and asked me if I was intersted and I figured I should look into it just to...

Okay thanks! :D What should I look for in a cow that I'm just wanting for milk?

The director of the Agriculture Center in Lenoir called me back yesterday (I had called looking for some breeders earlier) and answered a lot of my questions. He also said Jersey meat was some mighty tastey meat :lol: He wants me to go to some Cattlemen's Association meetings, so I'm excited...

Thanks yall! I'll be making some calls tomorrow about some Angus calves then :) ~Amber

Hello everyone, I'm trying to figure out what breed I should get to grow up and finish. I was thinking Jerseys but I don't know if this is a good idea or not? From what I've read, you don't get as much meat from them because they are meant for dairy. Half of them will be for me, my family...