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<blockquote data-quote="TheLazyM" data-source="post: 630132" data-attributes="member: 3117"><p>j nmmlTC Cattle,</p><p> I'm sorry my lack of writting ability. I started out buying bottle calves. After a few years I moved up to buying breed cows. At the time this was enough for me. I enjoyed all the different animals. THen came a state about building a herd in a day. My satifaction changed forever. Now I want to build a herd. The 37 cows is cows that I had bought bred. My heifers and bull was off that 37. I had 18 heifers after all the cows calved. This is what I started this herd off of. All the cows and other bull calves where sold. So I started with 18 heifers and 1 bull. I never put my bull to 37 cows.</p><p> Now I'm down to 5 cow pairs and 3 soon to be, and no bull. Or I can just say I have 8 female 5 of which has calves and 3 bred. I only have 1 bull calf. I'm thinking about keeping all of my heifer calves and buy and buy a young bull just at breeding. I looked today at a 3 year old today. The owner told me he's starting his 2nd season. Tomorrow I'm going to look at a 2 year and a 1 year old.</p><p> To fix my coyote problem besides hunting and trapping was with dogs of course, logging trees, and electric fencing. The fence has had the greatest results. It of course has the most maintance and pains in my rearend. I have to keep the weeds of the bottom 3 strands and keep the whole system trouble free. I know my heifers where healthy. No they where not found dead at the last place where I saw them. Coyotes are attacking cattle all the time around here. Most times they are not successive. I did'nt check the leg bones the heifers could have broke a leg trying to get away. I really dont know. It happens at night and its hard to keep a watch at night. I now have camras.</p><p> I dont know if the term "broke" is correct or not thats how I've always heard it. I can post a picture I kinda think thats tacky. Its pretty nasty. I've been told theres no turning it around. I'm sure if someone just spend all kinds of time with it. They might beable to heal it. I dont want to take a chance in it getting infected and lose him. I made the best decision I could at the time. Even now I would do the same thing over again. Everybody I know said they would have done the same.</p><p> Am I asking for advice. I sure am. I'm always asking for advice> just when I think I've seen it all something new to me happens. I love to learn. Its a bonus when its about cattle that I'm learning about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLazyM, post: 630132, member: 3117"] j nmmlTC Cattle, I'm sorry my lack of writting ability. I started out buying bottle calves. After a few years I moved up to buying breed cows. At the time this was enough for me. I enjoyed all the different animals. THen came a state about building a herd in a day. My satifaction changed forever. Now I want to build a herd. The 37 cows is cows that I had bought bred. My heifers and bull was off that 37. I had 18 heifers after all the cows calved. This is what I started this herd off of. All the cows and other bull calves where sold. So I started with 18 heifers and 1 bull. I never put my bull to 37 cows. Now I'm down to 5 cow pairs and 3 soon to be, and no bull. Or I can just say I have 8 female 5 of which has calves and 3 bred. I only have 1 bull calf. I'm thinking about keeping all of my heifer calves and buy and buy a young bull just at breeding. I looked today at a 3 year old today. The owner told me he's starting his 2nd season. Tomorrow I'm going to look at a 2 year and a 1 year old. To fix my coyote problem besides hunting and trapping was with dogs of course, logging trees, and electric fencing. The fence has had the greatest results. It of course has the most maintance and pains in my rearend. I have to keep the weeds of the bottom 3 strands and keep the whole system trouble free. I know my heifers where healthy. No they where not found dead at the last place where I saw them. Coyotes are attacking cattle all the time around here. Most times they are not successive. I did'nt check the leg bones the heifers could have broke a leg trying to get away. I really dont know. It happens at night and its hard to keep a watch at night. I now have camras. I dont know if the term "broke" is correct or not thats how I've always heard it. I can post a picture I kinda think thats tacky. Its pretty nasty. I've been told theres no turning it around. I'm sure if someone just spend all kinds of time with it. They might beable to heal it. I dont want to take a chance in it getting infected and lose him. I made the best decision I could at the time. Even now I would do the same thing over again. Everybody I know said they would have done the same. Am I asking for advice. I sure am. I'm always asking for advice> just when I think I've seen it all something new to me happens. I love to learn. Its a bonus when its about cattle that I'm learning about. [/QUOTE]
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