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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 1725884" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>I'm 43, got our first bred WILD mutt heifers in the fall of '91, we were total greenhorns, and anything that could go wrong, did.. I think our first calving season we lost 3 calves and 2 cows.. (out of 12 heifers), then lost a few more to pneumonia, back in the days before draxxin, Exede, etc. in the mid-late 90's we did row crops, which paid the bills a lot better than cattle.. we had an acre of carrots, half acre of onions, 2 acres of squash, and we mostly did it all in 3 people. That was hard on the back, and I feel a lot of old injuries coming back to me now.</p><p></p><p>The cows we started with were mostly hereford/angus with some simm/fleckvieh in there too, </p><p>This was my first cow "Josie", a real pet, cooperative, milkable, nothing special to look at but she made a few nice daughters</p><p>[ATTACH=full]12164[/ATTACH]</p><p>Her older daughter Rosie (Salers sired), with her daughter (Cenci) and granddaughter (Chroma) stealing milk... those two calves turned into some of my best cows, they're both 11 years old now, Rosie had 16 calves for me</p><p>[ATTACH=full]12165[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>First bull was a Red angus, next was a Salers that we kept for a long time, then we had shorthorn bulls for about 8 years, the last one broke his pecker right as breeding season started, so we called up our auctioneer, and he had a Gelbvieh bull for sale, which was probably our best bull, kept him for 6 years, then tried Limousin, but that wasn't what I wanted.. Used a couple homeraised sons of the first gelbvieh bull and was really happy with them. I found a local (only 3 hours away) Gelbvieh breeder, got into an argument with my old man about buying a heifer, he wanted none of it, I bought a heifer calf anyhow and just threw her in with my calves.. (this is the day after I brought her home) [ATTACH=full]12160[/ATTACH]</p><p>for 2 years my dad was saying how much he liked that cow, and last fall he asked who her mother was and I finally told him I bought her, and with how many times he said he liked her, he just had to shut up</p><p>This is her first daughter, and I think I like her better than her momma, have high hopes for her (but holy smokes is she ever a headstrong girl!)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]12161[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I've since bought a PB gelbvieh bull from the same ranch and have some nice calves from him too, but I'm still going to raise some of my own bulls, The cow line from *my* first cow is now about 80% of my herd, Working on consistency, meatiness and build, I have a few that are really promising, This first timer really made a gorgeous and big calf, he's nearly as big as an intact bull from a mature cow, and kinda regret not having left him intact to see what he could have turned into</p><p>[ATTACH=full]12162[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>You all probably know Hector already, he was the first homeraised bull I kept.. well, I kept him intact, sold him to a friend, then got him back, little high in the birthweight department but his daughters have been really good milking cows (the two above are from him), His momma and his sister were both my milk cows when I felt like milking, He was a very well behaved boy, but he'd take no crap from any other bull, and took on bigger, older bulls several times while at my friend's place and sent them back where they came from</p><p>[ATTACH=full]12163[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Outside of cattle, I've always been a jack of all trades, machinist, welder, dabble in computers, naturally a mechanic (I think we have nearly as many tractors as cows!).. the newest one being 40 years old.. a couple Holder A10's articulated tractors, a couple Leyland 154's, a massey 165 and 255, an IH 684 and a 274 (offset row crop) a Case 464 (HD garden tractor), and we just found an Allis Chalmers Model G we'll pick up shortly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 1725884, member: 9096"] I'm 43, got our first bred WILD mutt heifers in the fall of '91, we were total greenhorns, and anything that could go wrong, did.. I think our first calving season we lost 3 calves and 2 cows.. (out of 12 heifers), then lost a few more to pneumonia, back in the days before draxxin, Exede, etc. in the mid-late 90's we did row crops, which paid the bills a lot better than cattle.. we had an acre of carrots, half acre of onions, 2 acres of squash, and we mostly did it all in 3 people. That was hard on the back, and I feel a lot of old injuries coming back to me now. The cows we started with were mostly hereford/angus with some simm/fleckvieh in there too, This was my first cow "Josie", a real pet, cooperative, milkable, nothing special to look at but she made a few nice daughters [ATTACH type="full"]12164[/ATTACH] Her older daughter Rosie (Salers sired), with her daughter (Cenci) and granddaughter (Chroma) stealing milk... those two calves turned into some of my best cows, they're both 11 years old now, Rosie had 16 calves for me [ATTACH type="full"]12165[/ATTACH] First bull was a Red angus, next was a Salers that we kept for a long time, then we had shorthorn bulls for about 8 years, the last one broke his pecker right as breeding season started, so we called up our auctioneer, and he had a Gelbvieh bull for sale, which was probably our best bull, kept him for 6 years, then tried Limousin, but that wasn't what I wanted.. Used a couple homeraised sons of the first gelbvieh bull and was really happy with them. I found a local (only 3 hours away) Gelbvieh breeder, got into an argument with my old man about buying a heifer, he wanted none of it, I bought a heifer calf anyhow and just threw her in with my calves.. (this is the day after I brought her home) [ATTACH type="full"]12160[/ATTACH] for 2 years my dad was saying how much he liked that cow, and last fall he asked who her mother was and I finally told him I bought her, and with how many times he said he liked her, he just had to shut up This is her first daughter, and I think I like her better than her momma, have high hopes for her (but holy smokes is she ever a headstrong girl!) [ATTACH type="full"]12161[/ATTACH] I've since bought a PB gelbvieh bull from the same ranch and have some nice calves from him too, but I'm still going to raise some of my own bulls, The cow line from *my* first cow is now about 80% of my herd, Working on consistency, meatiness and build, I have a few that are really promising, This first timer really made a gorgeous and big calf, he's nearly as big as an intact bull from a mature cow, and kinda regret not having left him intact to see what he could have turned into [ATTACH type="full"]12162[/ATTACH] You all probably know Hector already, he was the first homeraised bull I kept.. well, I kept him intact, sold him to a friend, then got him back, little high in the birthweight department but his daughters have been really good milking cows (the two above are from him), His momma and his sister were both my milk cows when I felt like milking, He was a very well behaved boy, but he'd take no crap from any other bull, and took on bigger, older bulls several times while at my friend's place and sent them back where they came from [ATTACH type="full"]12163[/ATTACH] Outside of cattle, I've always been a jack of all trades, machinist, welder, dabble in computers, naturally a mechanic (I think we have nearly as many tractors as cows!).. the newest one being 40 years old.. a couple Holder A10's articulated tractors, a couple Leyland 154's, a massey 165 and 255, an IH 684 and a 274 (offset row crop) a Case 464 (HD garden tractor), and we just found an Allis Chalmers Model G we'll pick up shortly. [/QUOTE]
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