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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1829466" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>Counting back through, my maternal grandmother's side of the family, I am a seventh generation farmer on some of the family land. </p><p>My fathers's father lived on someone else's farm and raised crops and garden someone else took care of the cattle on that farm.</p><p>When my parents married they lived in town for a while then after my mother's father passed her mother moved to town and she and her brother inherited the the land their father had and it was divided between them.</p><p>Soon after some adjoining land that was part of my mothers family came up for auction and my parents bought another piece of land. </p><p>They both worked public jobs and so they ran feeder cattle ( stockers ) around 80-100 steers at a time bought in at 400 pounds and sold around 700. </p><p>I grew up helping with the steers, no experience with cows and calves until I bought my first heifers right before goi g into high school and FFA.</p><p>By that time my father's health was real bad due to emphysema and they had quit running steers and leased the farm out to my uncle. </p><p>I was hooked, with those heifers, it started a lifelong love of cows and calves. I've raised dairy calves for several years, and ran beef breed feeder calves </p><p>bought heifers to resell as bred heifers, but I've almost always had a few cows even if for a while it was just dairy nurse cows, I've always gravitated back towards cows and calves. </p><p>Started out with registered Charolais, now have commercial mainly Angus, Hereford, and BWF cows, and currently going more towards Simmental bulls.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1829466, member: 24816"] Counting back through, my maternal grandmother’s side of the family, I am a seventh generation farmer on some of the family land. My fathers’s father lived on someone else’s farm and raised crops and garden someone else took care of the cattle on that farm. When my parents married they lived in town for a while then after my mother’s father passed her mother moved to town and she and her brother inherited the the land their father had and it was divided between them. Soon after some adjoining land that was part of my mothers family came up for auction and my parents bought another piece of land. They both worked public jobs and so they ran feeder cattle ( stockers ) around 80-100 steers at a time bought in at 400 pounds and sold around 700. I grew up helping with the steers, no experience with cows and calves until I bought my first heifers right before goi g into high school and FFA. By that time my father’s health was real bad due to emphysema and they had quit running steers and leased the farm out to my uncle. I was hooked, with those heifers, it started a lifelong love of cows and calves. I’ve raised dairy calves for several years, and ran beef breed feeder calves bought heifers to resell as bred heifers, but I’ve almost always had a few cows even if for a while it was just dairy nurse cows, I’ve always gravitated back towards cows and calves. Started out with registered Charolais, now have commercial mainly Angus, Hereford, and BWF cows, and currently going more towards Simmental bulls. [/QUOTE]
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