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<blockquote data-quote="HOSS" data-source="post: 1028918" data-attributes="member: 1863"><p>I grew up on my grandfathers 500 acre farm. He raised Herefords and RWF cattle that I helped with some. My dad had a hog operation on one end of the farm so I spent more time on that than with the cattle. Like CB I hated hogs. After my grandfather retired and sold his herd my uncle started one on the farm. Mostly herf cows with an angus bull. I used to help him with tagging, fly control etc. Eventually I left for the military and swore I would never do any farming again. During the next several years my Dad had a couple of herds of herfs with angus bulls and I would help him a bit. After I moved back to Tennessee 14 years ago my dad was running a few red angus cows. I bought a couple of jersey bottle calves to keep my kids busy and to teach them responsibility. As I kept messing with the red angus and bottle calves the old bug hit me and I changed course 180 degrees from what I said I would do. We sold the house in the lakefront subdivision and bought a small farm. I started with 3 red angus heifers and a red angus bull. I only run about 30 head now and I still have 2 of the original 3 red angus cows I started with. I am in the process of switching over to registered Gelbvieh and Balancer cattle. I have about 10 head of registered stock at the moment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HOSS, post: 1028918, member: 1863"] I grew up on my grandfathers 500 acre farm. He raised Herefords and RWF cattle that I helped with some. My dad had a hog operation on one end of the farm so I spent more time on that than with the cattle. Like CB I hated hogs. After my grandfather retired and sold his herd my uncle started one on the farm. Mostly herf cows with an angus bull. I used to help him with tagging, fly control etc. Eventually I left for the military and swore I would never do any farming again. During the next several years my Dad had a couple of herds of herfs with angus bulls and I would help him a bit. After I moved back to Tennessee 14 years ago my dad was running a few red angus cows. I bought a couple of jersey bottle calves to keep my kids busy and to teach them responsibility. As I kept messing with the red angus and bottle calves the old bug hit me and I changed course 180 degrees from what I said I would do. We sold the house in the lakefront subdivision and bought a small farm. I started with 3 red angus heifers and a red angus bull. I only run about 30 head now and I still have 2 of the original 3 red angus cows I started with. I am in the process of switching over to registered Gelbvieh and Balancer cattle. I have about 10 head of registered stock at the moment. [/QUOTE]
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