name is an unusual oneI know I'm not supposed to say but I'm curious what ya'll age is and when you start in with cattle. What is ya'll story?? Story time go!!! Name, area, age, cattle breed, did you stick with that or switch, what have you learned along the way, things to know good, and bad, funny stories of farm/ranch life about the years, pooping stories while farm ranching haha, and anything else ya'll may want add.... these are the stories of cattle life member memories.... maybe I'll write a book after.... bahahahaha for all my cattle friends.
S E AZ
age is between 20 and 80
started with a Hereford heifer calf given by Grampa when I was born, he was a Hereford man from way back.
raised in the city, came back to the ranch in 1986 to care for him. during that time a cousin was helping with the cattle and brought in some other bulls - brahma, limousin, saler, even a shorthorn for a while. we also bought a few longhorns kind of as a joke. we took over all the management after Grampa died. more recently the bulls have been black or red angus/brangus and we have one hereford. the cows are starting to be more uniform reds and blacks. I kind of miss the colors but you sure get docked for it around here, no matter the actual conformation.
biggest thing I have learned is to watch the cows and go slow. if you don't need a lot of expensive toys you can make do on a small operation. we run 150- 200 mother cows depending on feed. being in the west the ranch is only about 20% private, the majority State Trust and a tiny bit of BLM.
poop is life, we don't poison flies or dung beetles, but we are in a dry climate and flies aren't actually that bad of a problem - most of the time anyway.