warren: just wondering (1) do you or have you ever separated a few of your corriente cows with a corriente bull. ropers? roping cattle seem to be a big thing in texas, how about alabama?
Back before Scott and I got dementia, we used to keep 100-120 Corr cows and we bred them to calve in February. We'd use 5 or 6 bulls...enough to get them all bred. Put them in mid-April, and get them out Memorial Day weekend. We had a Corriente bull we'd put in when we took the Brangus out, in case some got missed. We'd get anywhere from zero to (one time)10 Corr calves. At weaning I'd take the Corr Steers and heifers back up to my place up here, and use them for roping. But once the heifers got 14 months or so old, I'd bring them back to our operation and add them to the herd. We have a couple places here where we hold practice/jackpots. 2-3 times a week. Everyone that comes supplies 3 head each, so that makes up a big enough pen for the night. In the 80's, when they started letting cows and bulls cross the border, I started raising pure Corrientes, to sell for roping, or to supply to people holding ropings. About 1997 or so, team penning had become huge. Everybody was having team penning practice at every arena around, about every night of the week. You needed a minimum of 2 groups of at least 21, and the actual penning competitions you need at least 4 groups of 30. All 21-30 head in the pen need to be polled and the same size and color. That is when I started breeding most of my solid Corrs to Angus bulls. About 2005 or 2006, everyone that has team penning practice had changed to team sorting, Don't need as many cattle and uniformity in color wasn't as important in sorting. Now I just sell them all at weaning. The contract we started this year with a buyer calls for a supply of up to 1000 ( we got about 720 cows now) 6 mos old calves each month, so we now keep bulls in with them year round, so no longer have any that got missed and the Corr bull would get them.
apologies for the incorrect location.Back before Scott and I got dementia, we used to keep 100-120 Corr cows and we bred them to calve in February. We'd use 5 or 6 bulls...enough to get them all bred. Put them in mid-April, and get them out Memorial Day weekend. We had a Corriente bull we'd put in when we took the Brangus out, in case some got missed. We'd get anywhere from zero to (one time)10 Corr calves. At weaning I'd take the Corr Steers and heifers back up to my place up here, and use them for roping. But once the heifers got 14 months or so old, I'd bring them back to our operation and add them to the herd. We have a couple places here where we hold practice/jackpots. 2-3 times a week. Everyone that comes supplies 3 head each, so that makes up a big enough pen for the night. In the 80's, when they started letting cows and bulls cross the border, I started raising pure Corrientes, to sell for roping, or to supply to people holding ropings. About 1997 or so, team penning had become huge. Everybody was having team penning practice at every arena around, about every night of the week. You needed a minimum of 2 groups of at least 21, and the actual penning competitions you need at least 4 groups of 30. All 21-30 head in the pen need to be polled and the same size and color. That is when I started breeding most of my solid Corrs to Angus bulls. About 2005 or 2006, everyone that has team penning practice had changed to team sorting, Don't need as many cattle and uniformity in color wasn't as important in sorting. Now I just sell them all at weaning. The contract we started this year with a buyer calls for a supply of up to 1000 ( we got about 720 cows now) 6 mos old calves each month, so we now keep bulls in with them year round, so no longer have any that got missed and the Corr bull would get them.
I am in NW Ga not Alabama, but can be in NE Ala in 30 minutes!
If you talking about that slash across the avatar that says OP, that means original poster.
These past few months, I see Corr steers advertised as high as the heifers, bulls and cows these days. It depends on whether they are fresh or roped out, and whether they are slow, mediums, or d fats ones. And whether they drag or not.
Supposed to be 150 bred corriente type. A lot have been de-horned. I'll be watching whether online or in person I ain't decided yet. Problem is, if I buy some of them, they ain't worth much if they don't breed back. And I'll bet they ain't heavy bred enough to do my any good. I'd have to hold em too long to do what I want to do.
They said they sold some steer calves off these cows this week for $1500-$1600 weighing 350-450#, So ythose cows would only be 3 months or so bred. The others might be bred longer, I don't know. But they said they are bred to Charolais bulls. I wouldn't be interested in them myself, being bred Charolais, but curious as to what they bring.
I watched some sell, never saw any bring that much, but when they started running in regular beef cows i quit watching it. I knew they had a lot more to go, though. The first ones they sold were just about all blacks,. I probably saw abut 20 or 30 sell, before I turned it off., But the ones I saw were still briniong 1500 or more. I wouldn;t have bought any either, bred to Charolais. Would have lost a year before I could get the kind pf calves that fit my program. Where do you usually sit when you go? Didn't look like a lot of folks there, but there might have been a lot of Baptists there, and we tend to fill up a place from the back first! LOL
Lots of folks sit up high out of camera view. I'm usually right over there. Didn't ya see me? I'm sure ya did.
you don't like charolais x cross?? the last corriente sale i went to (think i posted this already wherever it goes to), i bought an eight-month bred to an advertised charolais. two weeks later she had a new black calf. (must have been an angus bull in the pasture). i try to buy charolais cross pairs or advertised?? bred to charolais. just like them, but i do not run charolais bulls,
