Rod
Well-known member
I got a phone call from a complete stranger that lives down from my bull pasture and he was in need of a bull because his and his father-in-laws bull had went on to see the good lord. He wanted to know if I would meet them over there and let them look at some of my bulls. Well it was sunday which after church is my only half a day off work each, if you could even call it that due to owning cattle, but I went ahead and agreed to meet them over there anyway. They got there and we met each other and cruised amongst the bulls and they were like two kids in a candy store. They wanted to know about every bull in pasture, what kind this one was, what color of calves would this one throw, how much do they weigh and so on and on and on. After a while I asked them what their business plan is and what their goals and what kind of cattle do they like. Come to find out the father-in-law had about 40 acres and they owned 2 moma cows and 3 first calf heifers and two of which had calves that had died, one born dead and the other got sick. They wanted another bull that calved easy and wanted to have black calves so I suggested some lbw angus I had and after and eternity they picked one out. Next they wanted to see some of my cow calf operation so we went over to another farm. The whole way over there they asked about every question you can think of or have even seen on this board. I showed them my replacement herd, the commercial herd, a herd of brangus heifers I'm in the process of breeding and then selling and on to the feeder calves. They absorbed everything I showed and explaned to them. On the way back to their truck they asked even more questions, what if's, how do you? and so on. I let them out and they said "we want more cattle" and asked if they could come over when I was around and help out sometimes or just watch and I said that would be fine. On my way home I got to thinking about how glad I was to have the opportunity to pay back to someone else all the knowledge, stratgies, paitence, and time that so many others had given me. The whole point of my rambling on is not once did I ever consider them dumb wannabe's, and let me tell you some of their questions were out there in left field, but they had the passion for and the desire to learn about cattle and I don't know of a better way of going about it than by "ASKING QUESTIONS" from someone who might know a thing or two about it. Granted they could of picked a better mentor, like dun for say, but I'll always be happy to help when I can!