Well, what happened was.....LOL. No seriusl;y, 3 or 4 weeks ago, a brother went down...hit by a b*tch on her phone, and last weekend we did a benefit ride and concert for his widow. I had a goal of $10k and we got $8900 that day. At the benefit, she told me that Screech had bought 2 bottle claves l;ast April, and now she could nopt take care of them. Can;t tote hay or feed,. etc, and asked me if I could help her sell them. They are a Jersey x Guernsey and a Jeresy x Brown Siss heifers.. 16 to 17 months old now. I knew the place he had got them from. I asked her what she hoped to get for them. She said he had paid $200 each for them, and she hoped tpo get that and p[ossib;y some of the feed they had bought over the last 16 mos. She said about $500 probably so he was hoping to get like $900 for them. I told her not to say nothing to anyone else about it, and I would be over there today. I knew of they were alive they would be worth a lot more than that, and didn't want anyone to take advantage of her. Well when I got there, they were pitiful. Hairy as hell, huge grass bellies and there was NO grass in that dirt lot. Weighed about 600 lbs, maybe 700, but I doubt it. They were obviously wormy and no telling what else. So I told her I thought they might bring $1500 each at the sale next week, so I would just go ahead and give her $1500 each,$3k, for the pair. and take them with me and get them all cleaned up and all, and carry them to the sale next week. if she thought that was fair, She did, I was wanting to give her another $1000 to get to the $10k we had hoped to raise anyway. So, I brought them over to my horse barn, and put them in a 3 sided shavings shed and closed it off with panels. Already started them on my special conditioning feed I mix up. Vet is coming tomorrow to float teeth and pull Coggins, and do some blood work on Smoke. So I will get her to worm them and give them anything else they might need. Anyhow, I was feeling kinda stupid for paying that much for 2 flea-=bit bag of bones. Kept thinking I ought to have given her that $1k I wanted to, and put that other $2k in Zeke's nest egg we are trying to build up for him. But, it made her happy and she said "
Screech always told me they'd grow up to be $1000 cows, but I didn't believe him. But he was right, huh? It is like he is reaching out to help me from the other side "
Anyhow, the reason I was asking this , Murray, is because I have decided when I get them in shape, I am gonna carry them to eke. This will give him 4 possible nurse cows. I already been looking, and we can get sexed semen form polled Brahma bulls for $50 a straw. That way, he will get four 1/2 Brahma heifers each year, worth about $2k each. So, that will be better than a one time deposit of $2k. I was hoping you said they were raising an additional 3 to 4 calves per lactation. If we can get 3 more to put on each one of them, that would sell for at least $500, then I'd have those 4 cows generating Zeke about $3500 each....$14k a year. Me and Scott will buy the feed, etc., and buy the bottle calves...so Zeke would get all of that money.
@MurraysMutts , if you wanted to put 3 more on one of them per lactation would you do it like add one every 3 or 4 weeks? How would you do it?
