Aaron
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Couple 2 year olds I sold this spring/summer. Was going to keep the first one for myself, but someone else took a liking to him.
Used this bull as a yearling last year on 30 heifers. Easiest calving bull I have ever had. Calves weren't small, averaged about 90lbs, but were up and sucking within 10 minutes guaranteed. I timed a number of them at right around 2 minutes.
Fellow who bought the 2nd bull. Showing me his castle (barn). If I calved in winter, this is the barn to have. He thought of every little detail that could arise. This is his calving chute. With the checkerboard pattern, he can slide poles in between to make sure a cow never goes down when calving. Almost all doors and gates run on a system of ropes and pulleys.
His pen gates are narrower than his alley, so he built sliders into his pen gates so that it blocks the entire alley when moving a cow into the pen. He does pretty good for 85 years and 50+ cows calving each year.
Rebuilding corral this year, so dug out old pics of it from 20 years ago when we still had the last few black and whites kicking around.
A corral has been in this location for almost 100 years. Red tin building was the old blacksmith shop for the area. Tore the building down about 10 years ago. Had to clean up the scrap pile in front of it to do this project, which took 4 full days for the bigger stuff. Have dug down over a foot into the ground and still finding metal. Found a licence plate from 1947 on top of the ground, than 1935 when dug down a inch or two. Then one from 1930 about 6 inches in the ground. The one from 1930 was a trailer plate. Had no idea that they were plating trailers already back in 1930.
Mid-July of this year after the last bunch of cattle were processed and tossed to pasture.
The original corral 100 years ago was just this same straight section of alley with a pen beside it.
Can get to be a real mudhole in here with a few cows and little rain. Going to fix that with some 4" tile.
Well into the tear-down.
Scraping it down to clay.
Some good garden material. 50 year old rotten manure. Should make some pastures pop.
With the bale grazing, I don't haul manure often, only to clean out old piles, about once every 5 years or so. So to avoid having any decent money tied up in a spreader that is never used, I use this old AC 95G. Bought it for $200 and put new apron chains in it.
Still works.
Used this bull as a yearling last year on 30 heifers. Easiest calving bull I have ever had. Calves weren't small, averaged about 90lbs, but were up and sucking within 10 minutes guaranteed. I timed a number of them at right around 2 minutes.
Fellow who bought the 2nd bull. Showing me his castle (barn). If I calved in winter, this is the barn to have. He thought of every little detail that could arise. This is his calving chute. With the checkerboard pattern, he can slide poles in between to make sure a cow never goes down when calving. Almost all doors and gates run on a system of ropes and pulleys.
His pen gates are narrower than his alley, so he built sliders into his pen gates so that it blocks the entire alley when moving a cow into the pen. He does pretty good for 85 years and 50+ cows calving each year.
Rebuilding corral this year, so dug out old pics of it from 20 years ago when we still had the last few black and whites kicking around.
A corral has been in this location for almost 100 years. Red tin building was the old blacksmith shop for the area. Tore the building down about 10 years ago. Had to clean up the scrap pile in front of it to do this project, which took 4 full days for the bigger stuff. Have dug down over a foot into the ground and still finding metal. Found a licence plate from 1947 on top of the ground, than 1935 when dug down a inch or two. Then one from 1930 about 6 inches in the ground. The one from 1930 was a trailer plate. Had no idea that they were plating trailers already back in 1930.
Mid-July of this year after the last bunch of cattle were processed and tossed to pasture.
The original corral 100 years ago was just this same straight section of alley with a pen beside it.
Can get to be a real mudhole in here with a few cows and little rain. Going to fix that with some 4" tile.
Well into the tear-down.
Scraping it down to clay.
Some good garden material. 50 year old rotten manure. Should make some pastures pop.
With the bale grazing, I don't haul manure often, only to clean out old piles, about once every 5 years or so. So to avoid having any decent money tied up in a spreader that is never used, I use this old AC 95G. Bought it for $200 and put new apron chains in it.
Still works.
