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<blockquote data-quote="Cattle Rack Rancher" data-source="post: 52689" data-attributes="member: 245"><p>My grandfather apparently wasn't a big fan of cattle. He usually had one jersey milk cow to supply milk for the house. There's a story I heard as a kid that shortly after he moved to the farm at about age 14, he was out milking and apparently this milk cow they had at the time kind of liked to take the odd kick at the person doing the milking. Apparently, the cow caught him right upside the head one day while he was milking, and he grabbed a pipe and dropped that cow right where she stood. His Dad came in, took one look, and walked away, didn't even say a word. Fortunately, my father developed a love for cattle from his mother's side of the family. They always had a good herd of hereford cattle and my father followed in that tradition. We had registered herefords on the farm well into my teens until one winter when the winter came early and the snow was deep and my father struggled all winter to bring the square bales in from the field 1 1/2 miles away. After that he downsized quite a bit and kind of lost interest in the whole thing. In the late seventies and eighties, I spent some time at the Bar 5 ranch where my aunt and uncle worked. That was back when those huge simmentals were popular. They had a couple of those bulls that were well over 3000 lbs. Now I have a variety of different breeds including a few Highlands, Galloways, and Shorthorns. But most of my cattle now would be at least half black angus only because they seem to be popular right now and I get a bit of a premium for them. Good Luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cattle Rack Rancher, post: 52689, member: 245"] My grandfather apparently wasn't a big fan of cattle. He usually had one jersey milk cow to supply milk for the house. There's a story I heard as a kid that shortly after he moved to the farm at about age 14, he was out milking and apparently this milk cow they had at the time kind of liked to take the odd kick at the person doing the milking. Apparently, the cow caught him right upside the head one day while he was milking, and he grabbed a pipe and dropped that cow right where she stood. His Dad came in, took one look, and walked away, didn't even say a word. Fortunately, my father developed a love for cattle from his mother's side of the family. They always had a good herd of hereford cattle and my father followed in that tradition. We had registered herefords on the farm well into my teens until one winter when the winter came early and the snow was deep and my father struggled all winter to bring the square bales in from the field 1 1/2 miles away. After that he downsized quite a bit and kind of lost interest in the whole thing. In the late seventies and eighties, I spent some time at the Bar 5 ranch where my aunt and uncle worked. That was back when those huge simmentals were popular. They had a couple of those bulls that were well over 3000 lbs. Now I have a variety of different breeds including a few Highlands, Galloways, and Shorthorns. But most of my cattle now would be at least half black angus only because they seem to be popular right now and I get a bit of a premium for them. Good Luck. [/QUOTE]
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