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I've been to that point myself before. What's bad is when you get to that point you don't even care about the financial loss part anymore lol

I wouldn't myself, but you certainly can. From the looks of your picture I'd try to take some ear off the calves if those were my cattle.

The Angus calf is a 2 year old he is the new guy. The hereford is a 5 year old he has been excellent for us.

All the barns I've been to, you can't throw a rock without hitting someone wearing a cowboy hat, with a dodge dually a gooseneck trailer with a saddled up horse in the front of it. He would haul those 6 calves cheaper than what the fuel costs just to be able to bring something into the barn. I...

The best advice I could've given the op on this thread, I would've said sell the trailer, spend the money in freestanding drill stem panels and hire someone to haul the calves.

Good point, I never thought about that.

Exactly

I've found I like these type better myself than the type you have to prod and whack to get to move. Once you have you facilities right, all you have to do is show those type a hole, they'll move to it. You just have to have good enough gates and pens to stop them when you shut that hole because...

I've been saying the same thing, with $4,000+ an acre pasture, $60 hay, $15 cubes, $5 T posts, $100 wire.... $1,200 for a calf ain't much money

I decided I don't have enough cows to mess with all that. I can usually tell you what calf belongs to who pretty easily. The buyers at the barn don't pay any more for ear tags either.

Also tack on the fact that a big majority of the calves coming in are carrying either some ear, or some roping blood. Maybe even both. They have to have it. I know one reason cattle needing to have ear is the heat, but I also believe they need it because of our management style of low input...

Quite a few folks around here use longhorns, usually covered by a char bull. They seem to get the least amount of dock. I've never understood it myself. At some point the money you saved by getting in with used up roping heifers is costing you by years of selling half price calves. How can it...

Looks to me like a good buy

Good looking cattle

I had a son of his I was using was a good bull. Had to haul him this summer he started jumping the fence. Never kept any heifers from him but may this year we will see what all he got to. I threatened to keep some every year just never did.

Yessir hereford over super baldy