On a hope and a prayer, I hope there all bred by that bull calf or another one that was younger than the one that died. I only have the 4 original cows, plus I bought a bred one last fall, she is due at the end of march. I couldn't afford to by a bull and couldn't find anyone around here to rent me one. ( that's part of the last summer thing). The bull calf I have now is 8 months old and it's getting to late to breed anything now, I don't want to be having calves in the winter. So I'm either going to sell him or band him, he's related and I don't want to get into that situation, but if he has bred any of them I'll cross that bridge when I get there. I'm going to preg. cheak all of them in April and if their open I'll pick up a bull. I should be able to afford a decent bull by then, and get back on track with everything. It's just hard sometimes trying to build a herd up pinching pennies, and having a monkey wrench get thrown into it and screwing everything up. I install drywall for a living, and sometimes things get slow, so I have to fall back on the cows and sell a few. The future around here is looking dim for new house construction and I've been able to make it so far, but you never know, things could get better, or things could get worse. There suppose to be building a new steel mill up here, that would help the community all the way around, but their dragging their feet in the construction of it. And I'm wondering if it will ever be built.
