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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1818726" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>Got these loaded pretty easily and fairly early yesterday, so we decided to go by the feed lot place Clay works for, and weigh them. Mike and his cowboys were there loading up a couple of semi's with steers to go to Oklahoma, so we unloaded ours into the arena, and helped them load those trucks. 5 &1/2 mos old, and the lightest heifer was 712. Heaviest steer was 803. Mike made us an offer on buying them. $1150 per head for the 10 heifers, $1450 a head for the 12 steers. $28,900, and we had just paid $27,500 for the pairs. I told him we'd do that, and we'd being them back in 3-4 weeks, weaning time. He said "heck, we done started weaning when we cut them out to weigh them! Stay there while I run up to the house and get your money!" So, now we have 22 Plummer cows, bred to Chi-Angus for Feb calving, at $0,000.00 cost per head! We weighed them too, while we had them off the trailers. Lightest cow was 1638 and heaviest was 1800 on the dot. By then it was dinner ( Lunch to you Yankees and city slickers) So I asked Clay if he wanted to go get his shotgun, and go ahead and take these cows down to the Kudzu pasture, and shoot doves that evening. Now that we have zero dollars in them, we have a lot of options. Probably sell these next calves to Mike again, and just do that til each cow ages out to non-breeding age and sell her.</p><p></p><p>So. we got these 22, the 10 Plummer x Jersy's I bought this week, Zeke's 4 part-Jersies, that Brah/Chianina x Corr steer, and the 3/4 MFB x 1/4 Corr bull calf all over on the Kudzu. All females are bred so won't hurt for that little bull to be in there. They're fixing to take Gail back to Zeeke's house, to get her off the Kudzu before she calves in December. When all the row crops are in, the rest go over on that 450 acres til February. Long as we move them by opening day of quail and rabbit Nov 15th, we are good. Everything is in now except for a field of late beans and the cotton. Scott was cutting the corn yesterday. We always put the 100-120 Corr cows over there every year, and didn't have to feed, so surely those 32 will winter well over there.</p><p></p><p>Scott called this morning, and was talking about how gentle those half-Jerseys were, The people had used them in petting zoos, even. He said they were every bit as gentle as Zeke's four, maybe more so, He said it ought to be easy to make them into nurse cows. I said if he and Zeke wanted to fool with grafting calves a couple of times a year to 14 cows, to have at it, but count me out! I am retiring...sorta. Plus, wouldn't want to breed them to Brahmas like we are Zeke's four. These are 1/2 Jersey, 1/4 Brahma. 1/8 Longhorn and 1/8 Watusi. You'd want to breed them to Angus and still might get horned calves out of them. I have read enough of [USER=39373]@MurraysMutts[/USER] 's and [USER=25884]@farmerjan[/USER] 's endeavors...and they are two people that <em>know what they are doing with nurse cows.... </em>to know that I don't want to fool with 4, much less 14. Now, if I was truly 100% retired, with no other businesses or projects, and lived on the place, that would be a good thing to keep a person busy and bring in a little income. Get about 20, raise 3 calves each off of them a year. Dunno where you could find 40 beef bottle calves... or even dairy calves around here, though. But, just got off the phone with the boy buying that 3/4 MFB 1/4 Corr bull. He produces bulls for junior rodeo, Lil Britches Rodeo, HS rodeo, etc, and wants to raise bulls that are 1000lbs + or-. I told him they were bred to a Corr bull, and told him he could leave them here plumb up to next Feb if he wanted to, if he bought them now at $500. So he is mailing a check in the morning! I don'tt have any partner to fool with on this deal, so they are SOLD! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1818726, member: 40587"] Got these loaded pretty easily and fairly early yesterday, so we decided to go by the feed lot place Clay works for, and weigh them. Mike and his cowboys were there loading up a couple of semi's with steers to go to Oklahoma, so we unloaded ours into the arena, and helped them load those trucks. 5 &1/2 mos old, and the lightest heifer was 712. Heaviest steer was 803. Mike made us an offer on buying them. $1150 per head for the 10 heifers, $1450 a head for the 12 steers. $28,900, and we had just paid $27,500 for the pairs. I told him we'd do that, and we'd being them back in 3-4 weeks, weaning time. He said "heck, we done started weaning when we cut them out to weigh them! Stay there while I run up to the house and get your money!" So, now we have 22 Plummer cows, bred to Chi-Angus for Feb calving, at $0,000.00 cost per head! We weighed them too, while we had them off the trailers. Lightest cow was 1638 and heaviest was 1800 on the dot. By then it was dinner ( Lunch to you Yankees and city slickers) So I asked Clay if he wanted to go get his shotgun, and go ahead and take these cows down to the Kudzu pasture, and shoot doves that evening. Now that we have zero dollars in them, we have a lot of options. Probably sell these next calves to Mike again, and just do that til each cow ages out to non-breeding age and sell her. So. we got these 22, the 10 Plummer x Jersy's I bought this week, Zeke's 4 part-Jersies, that Brah/Chianina x Corr steer, and the 3/4 MFB x 1/4 Corr bull calf all over on the Kudzu. All females are bred so won't hurt for that little bull to be in there. They're fixing to take Gail back to Zeeke's house, to get her off the Kudzu before she calves in December. When all the row crops are in, the rest go over on that 450 acres til February. Long as we move them by opening day of quail and rabbit Nov 15th, we are good. Everything is in now except for a field of late beans and the cotton. Scott was cutting the corn yesterday. We always put the 100-120 Corr cows over there every year, and didn't have to feed, so surely those 32 will winter well over there. Scott called this morning, and was talking about how gentle those half-Jerseys were, The people had used them in petting zoos, even. He said they were every bit as gentle as Zeke's four, maybe more so, He said it ought to be easy to make them into nurse cows. I said if he and Zeke wanted to fool with grafting calves a couple of times a year to 14 cows, to have at it, but count me out! I am retiring...sorta. Plus, wouldn't want to breed them to Brahmas like we are Zeke's four. These are 1/2 Jersey, 1/4 Brahma. 1/8 Longhorn and 1/8 Watusi. You'd want to breed them to Angus and still might get horned calves out of them. I have read enough of [USER=39373]@MurraysMutts[/USER] 's and [USER=25884]@farmerjan[/USER] 's endeavors...and they are two people that [I]know what they are doing with nurse cows.... [/I]to know that I don't want to fool with 4, much less 14. Now, if I was truly 100% retired, with no other businesses or projects, and lived on the place, that would be a good thing to keep a person busy and bring in a little income. Get about 20, raise 3 calves each off of them a year. Dunno where you could find 40 beef bottle calves... or even dairy calves around here, though. But, just got off the phone with the boy buying that 3/4 MFB 1/4 Corr bull. He produces bulls for junior rodeo, Lil Britches Rodeo, HS rodeo, etc, and wants to raise bulls that are 1000lbs + or-. I told him they were bred to a Corr bull, and told him he could leave them here plumb up to next Feb if he wanted to, if he bought them now at $500. So he is mailing a check in the morning! I don'tt have any partner to fool with on this deal, so they are SOLD! :) [/QUOTE]
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