creekdrive
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Kind of dreary & wet out today, so thought I would share some pictures from the past few days. Don't know what I did to my camera settings but these all have a yellow hue to them
17 yr old cow - still doing great. She doesn't move as quick as she once did, and her bag is starting to sag a little more than it used to. Last year I was convinced she was only milking on 2 quarters (still weaned a good calf), but this year her bag is definitely full and working on all 4 sides. The grass this year compared to last is a lot better too, which may have something to do with it? We were thinking we would sell her this fall, but I don't know anymore, prices aren't very good and it's not like she owes us any $$$ - she might get to stick around another year. I'd like to see if she could hit 20.
here's her heifer calf this year. This one will be retained for sure.
BA bull calf. There's quite a few nice ones this year, but I'm really like this one so far.
rear view
good place to lean
another pretty nice looking bull calf.
yearlings. Have about 50 of these - we always buy a bunch of 'scrubs' in late fall/winter. Most of these were roughly 300lbs when we bought them and pretty scrubby looking. Will probably sell them late August/September, or sooner if the grass runs out (which doesn't look like that will be the case this year)
Won't do quite as well this year with the market coming down like it has. But all of these were bought cheap enough that we still won't do too bad (nothing like last year though where we more than doubled our money on some of them even after subtracting feed expenses). The heifer on the far right of this picture was 145lbs when we bought her. Don't remember the exact amount off the top of my head but I think we paid $150 for her and 3 other ones all the same weight. Took a bit of pampering but they sure look nice now. Did better than I was expecting.
commercial pairs
crappy picture - but this little 2nd calver is sure doing a good job. She wouldn't be a whole lot over 1000lbs and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if that calf will wean over 700. The cow is Gelbvieh X Shorthorn and the calf is SimAngus sired.
Gelbvieh sired steer. His 10 yr old Sim/Angus dam behind him.
This girl always milks herself thin, but raises a big calf. This is another Gelbvieh sired calf out of a 6 yr old sim/angus cow.
Big Ears with a Gelbvieh sired heifer calf.
pretty close to my idea of a perfect cow. mostly Angus with a bit of shorthorn a few generations back. 5 yr old.
6 yr old Hereford x Shorthorn cow with a Gelbvieh sired heifer calf (born Apr. 19 so not even one of the older calves). This cross makes some real nice calves.
Hope I didn't overload anyones computer by posting too many - there was a few more than I thought there was going to be when I started this post
17 yr old cow - still doing great. She doesn't move as quick as she once did, and her bag is starting to sag a little more than it used to. Last year I was convinced she was only milking on 2 quarters (still weaned a good calf), but this year her bag is definitely full and working on all 4 sides. The grass this year compared to last is a lot better too, which may have something to do with it? We were thinking we would sell her this fall, but I don't know anymore, prices aren't very good and it's not like she owes us any $$$ - she might get to stick around another year. I'd like to see if she could hit 20.
here's her heifer calf this year. This one will be retained for sure.
BA bull calf. There's quite a few nice ones this year, but I'm really like this one so far.
rear view
good place to lean
another pretty nice looking bull calf.
yearlings. Have about 50 of these - we always buy a bunch of 'scrubs' in late fall/winter. Most of these were roughly 300lbs when we bought them and pretty scrubby looking. Will probably sell them late August/September, or sooner if the grass runs out (which doesn't look like that will be the case this year)
Won't do quite as well this year with the market coming down like it has. But all of these were bought cheap enough that we still won't do too bad (nothing like last year though where we more than doubled our money on some of them even after subtracting feed expenses). The heifer on the far right of this picture was 145lbs when we bought her. Don't remember the exact amount off the top of my head but I think we paid $150 for her and 3 other ones all the same weight. Took a bit of pampering but they sure look nice now. Did better than I was expecting.
commercial pairs
crappy picture - but this little 2nd calver is sure doing a good job. She wouldn't be a whole lot over 1000lbs and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if that calf will wean over 700. The cow is Gelbvieh X Shorthorn and the calf is SimAngus sired.
Gelbvieh sired steer. His 10 yr old Sim/Angus dam behind him.
This girl always milks herself thin, but raises a big calf. This is another Gelbvieh sired calf out of a 6 yr old sim/angus cow.
Big Ears with a Gelbvieh sired heifer calf.
pretty close to my idea of a perfect cow. mostly Angus with a bit of shorthorn a few generations back. 5 yr old.
6 yr old Hereford x Shorthorn cow with a Gelbvieh sired heifer calf (born Apr. 19 so not even one of the older calves). This cross makes some real nice calves.
Hope I didn't overload anyones computer by posting too many - there was a few more than I thought there was going to be when I started this post