Good Ol' Doc Harris

[Not-So-Plain-Country Girl]

To Everyone,
I am a farm wife. I know nothing about cattle. I am going to need to know alot of things about them. We raise beef cattle, limos are all I know (and not at that). Please, someone can you tell me why our choose of beef cattle is so bad? So far, from what I've had to deal with (limos), I really love the breed. I have a 15 year old son that is at that stage in his life that he needs to know that family is where the heart is. I have a 2 and half year old that just absolutly loves farm aniamls. I would like to be educated by all the knowledge you guys and gals can give me. I would like to be able to raise my family the farm way, you know. I know I don't really know what to do on the board yet, and I have posted some pretty stupid things. Please, respond to any question that I may have. Let me know what needs to be done. I have bought the hottest cattle book posted by you guys and gals. I am getting info for helping get my 2 and half year old for showing cattle (because the info has came from this board). Don't let people like me down. We need all of the information we can get from the pros (I do feel that some of the people on this board are more than qualified to help people like me). I need to be my husbands right hand on the farm and I need to be a mother whos children will always remember as ,'Hey ya know, she really loved and thaught us right.' So please is anyone can help, feel free to give the good advice that I know several on here have!! All-in-all, and for all of the helpful information that I'm sure I will get from this board: A heart felt thank you, to each and everyone of you.

 

[Not-So-Plain-Country Girl]

Angus/Brangus,
Thanks so much. I will have alot of quetions! I do have some right now but do not know the proper place to post them. I hope you and the others will hang around for the people like me, because I will forever remain a farm wife and of coarse a mom. I don't know though, I think it is a wonderful life and experience to be a wife of a farmer.

 

[Ryder]

Angus/Brangus,
Thanks so much. I will have alot of quetions! I do have some right now but do not know the proper place to post them. I hope you and the others will hang around for the people like me, because I will forever remain a farm wife and of coarse a mom. I don't know though, I think it is a wonderful life and experience to be a wife of a farmer.

Just joking around about everybody leaving. Some leave but new ones come. Just because someone is new and doesn't have a lot of posts does not mean they may not know a lot.

I can't say much about your breed because I do not have any experience with them. Others do.

 

[mnmtranching]

Angus/Brangus,
Thanks so much. I will have alot of quetions! I do have some right now but do not know the proper place to post them. I hope you and the others will hang around for the people like me, because I will forever remain a farm wife and of coarse a mom. I don't know though, I think it is a wonderful life and experience to be a wife of a farmer.

I for one am glad your with us. No need to think about the proper place to post a topic, if you are undecided, post it on the "Every Thing Else Forum" We all check it almost daily. 8)

 

[cfpinz]

Since Bez doesn't seem that interested in the party, I think we should appoint him as the 'designated driver'. What do you think?

I'm not riding with that crotchety old fart. He might have a senior moment and think we're in a fighter plane or something. :lol: :lol: :lol:

cfpinz

 

[Cattle Rack Rancher]

As far as cattle goes, I was raised with them and I still think some days that I don't know too much. I'm still prone to the occasional dumbass move where I look back at it and think I could have handled that a little better. Some days I'm just not thinking but others, I'll come up against something that just is a bit outside my ken. The folks on this board come here with a vast amount and a variety of experience and its nice to know that if I post a question that for the most part, there's usually someone out there that has had something similar happen. The other thing is that it seems that in this Politically Correct, Post BSE world, things have changed a bit and some of the practices I never would have thought twice about before are now verboten. I had a run in with the local vet ( a pig specialist) awhile back who obviously knew very little about cattle but proceeded to tell me exactly how they should be raised and everything he felt that I was doing wrong. I think if he had his way, he would have liked me to keep them in a heated shop for the winter. It was enlightening, but the scary part is the new rules seem to be very stringent on what you can and can't do and I'm pretty sure that on most farms that if they wanted to nail you with something, they could. Anyway, it was one of those times when I got caught not thinking ( at least in a Politically Correct, Post BSE way) and next time I get caught not thinking like that I've been promised a $2000 fine. Anyway, I'm a little off topic, but my point is that even those with lots of experience can learn alot from the other people on this board. There's lots to know and if you figure you know it all, then I guess you don't need help from anybody here.

 

[Bud In lower Ala]

The few times I have posted a question, I have received a couple of good straight answers but I get more sarcastic, irrelevant answer. Therefore I look and read and keep my mouth shut. The coffee shop is a great place for humor. Keep the good guys and let the smart alecs GO!
Bud in LA

 

[Ryder]

Since Bez doesn't seem that interested in the party, I think we should appoint him as the 'designated driver'. What do you think?

I'm not riding with that crotchety old fart. He might have a senior moment and think we're in a fighter plane or something. :lol: :lol: :lol:

cfpinz

You might be right at that.
Thought maybe Lammie would hitch up a team of those little mules, or whatever she calls them, and take us in to town in a wagon. We could go in whoopin and hollerin and shooting off our pistols from the back of that wagon.
But she lost her glasses so I don't guess she can drive us in.

We'll come up with something.