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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 1724912" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>I'm 70 now. My first cows were some mixed group of 4 weaned steer calves in 1977, we were going to eat them. We lived in a little cottage close to a road on 10 acres. The calves got out through the back fence into some thick scrub, impossible to find them so I said to my wife Pam, bugger it whoever finds them can have them, they were more trouble than they were worth. About 2 weeks later we had not seen any sign of them then at about 1am Pam wakes me up and said the cows are back, I said ********, she said no, they are walking down the road, come on we'll get them in through the gate. I wanted to stay in bed but Pam, barefoot and heavily pregnant, she dropped our 2nd daughter about 2 days later, went out in her knickers and T shirt and herded the steers into our yard. I must have felt guilty because I did turn up but by then Pam had them all safely back in our paddock. I know I killed one of them as we had it hanging in our bathroom from an exposed timber rafter for a day or two before we cut it up. I think I gave the others away.</p><p></p><p>I started back into cattle 15 years ago one year before I retired with commercial Black Angus and then saw a female sale at a well known New England breeder and thought I wouldn't mind getting a couple to benchmark against my commercial cows and I liked what I got so kept going back each year for a few years and bought another couple each year and with heavy use of AI and a lot of advice with bull selection from my friends here I think I have a pretty handy herd now.</p><p></p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 1724912, member: 16453"] I'm 70 now. My first cows were some mixed group of 4 weaned steer calves in 1977, we were going to eat them. We lived in a little cottage close to a road on 10 acres. The calves got out through the back fence into some thick scrub, impossible to find them so I said to my wife Pam, bugger it whoever finds them can have them, they were more trouble than they were worth. About 2 weeks later we had not seen any sign of them then at about 1am Pam wakes me up and said the cows are back, I said ********, she said no, they are walking down the road, come on we'll get them in through the gate. I wanted to stay in bed but Pam, barefoot and heavily pregnant, she dropped our 2nd daughter about 2 days later, went out in her knickers and T shirt and herded the steers into our yard. I must have felt guilty because I did turn up but by then Pam had them all safely back in our paddock. I know I killed one of them as we had it hanging in our bathroom from an exposed timber rafter for a day or two before we cut it up. I think I gave the others away. I started back into cattle 15 years ago one year before I retired with commercial Black Angus and then saw a female sale at a well known New England breeder and thought I wouldn't mind getting a couple to benchmark against my commercial cows and I liked what I got so kept going back each year for a few years and bought another couple each year and with heavy use of AI and a lot of advice with bull selection from my friends here I think I have a pretty handy herd now. Ken [/QUOTE]
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