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Calving can be so rewarding - and so gut wrenching!
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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1837635" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>Reading this thread got me to thinking about just how hard farming/</p><p></p><p></p><p>ranching is, and how unfair life can be. Like I have said, ain't no one on here that knows more about cattle, or takes better care of their cattle, than [USER=968]@Jeanne - Simme Valley[/USER], and look what happened. For 30 years or so, we have had 100-120 Corriente calves born, and we have never lost a calf, and the only cow we ever lost was the one the poachers shot last year. We have never seen one born..they are a week to 3 weeks old, sometimes nearly a month old, before we see them for the first time, when we round them up to tag them and cut the bulls. And the hell of it is, that heifer Jeanne lost was worth more than 15-20 of our cows. That sux. </p><p></p><p>The more a mare is worth, or the potential worth of the foal, seems to be directly proportional to the chances something goes wrong with pregnancy or foaling. I got a pony when I was 4 or 5 years old, a mare, and she had a colt a few months later, We never got him cut, and when he was about a year old, I got a horse. We only had about 4 acres fenced in at my folks' house, so my granddaddy took Dolly and Blaze over to his 45 acre angus pasture one county over, and turned them loose. Every year for 4 or 5 more years, she had a foal, and never any problems. I think they said they gave $5 for Dolly when they bought her for me.</p><p></p><p>Same thing with dogs. Seems like every time I paid 3 or 4 figures for purebred hunting dog, of any kind, something always happened to it. But the mutts that showed up at the house hen I was ypung..we called them yard dogs... always lived to a ripe old age. We might have wormed them, and pulled a tick off every now and then, but never any kind of vaccine or meds, etc. They ate table scraps. including chocolate, too. Never any Alpo or IIams, etc...just maybe some dry Ole Roy or Jim Dandy to mix with the table scraps if we didn't have a lot of leftovers from that meal. Scott and I have AKC reg bird dogs and beagles, that we get 4 figures for the puppes. Always lose one or two out of each litter, ( had a crazy German Shorthair Pointer bitch that would eat her babies!) and no telling how many $100's of dollars we spend on vet bills, meds, etc, for those dogs. But a stray, or a mutt bitch will have 10-12 pups a litter, and every dang one will live. </p><p></p><p>I tell Scott every year, when we borrow those $5k-$10k bulls from his brother: "<em>You KNOW if we lose any cattle, or get one injured, which ones it will be, don't you</em>?!!"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1837635, member: 40587"] Reading this thread got me to thinking about just how hard farming/ ranching is, and how unfair life can be. Like I have said, ain't no one on here that knows more about cattle, or takes better care of their cattle, than [USER=968]@Jeanne - Simme Valley[/USER], and look what happened. For 30 years or so, we have had 100-120 Corriente calves born, and we have never lost a calf, and the only cow we ever lost was the one the poachers shot last year. We have never seen one born..they are a week to 3 weeks old, sometimes nearly a month old, before we see them for the first time, when we round them up to tag them and cut the bulls. And the hell of it is, that heifer Jeanne lost was worth more than 15-20 of our cows. That sux. The more a mare is worth, or the potential worth of the foal, seems to be directly proportional to the chances something goes wrong with pregnancy or foaling. I got a pony when I was 4 or 5 years old, a mare, and she had a colt a few months later, We never got him cut, and when he was about a year old, I got a horse. We only had about 4 acres fenced in at my folks' house, so my granddaddy took Dolly and Blaze over to his 45 acre angus pasture one county over, and turned them loose. Every year for 4 or 5 more years, she had a foal, and never any problems. I think they said they gave $5 for Dolly when they bought her for me. Same thing with dogs. Seems like every time I paid 3 or 4 figures for purebred hunting dog, of any kind, something always happened to it. But the mutts that showed up at the house hen I was ypung..we called them yard dogs... always lived to a ripe old age. We might have wormed them, and pulled a tick off every now and then, but never any kind of vaccine or meds, etc. They ate table scraps. including chocolate, too. Never any Alpo or IIams, etc...just maybe some dry Ole Roy or Jim Dandy to mix with the table scraps if we didn't have a lot of leftovers from that meal. Scott and I have AKC reg bird dogs and beagles, that we get 4 figures for the puppes. Always lose one or two out of each litter, ( had a crazy German Shorthair Pointer bitch that would eat her babies!) and no telling how many $100's of dollars we spend on vet bills, meds, etc, for those dogs. But a stray, or a mutt bitch will have 10-12 pups a litter, and every dang one will live. I tell Scott every year, when we borrow those $5k-$10k bulls from his brother: "[I]You KNOW if we lose any cattle, or get one injured, which ones it will be, don't you[/I]?!!" [/QUOTE]
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