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<blockquote data-quote="marksmu" data-source="post: 655261" data-attributes="member: 9219"><p>Well - I picked em up on Sunday - that was an all day ordeal. The momma cows wanted nothing to do with being separated from their calves for the trip down. They put up a big ole show and we ended up having to not buy one that we wanted as she got caught up in the corral panels during loading and was injured. Seller was nice - and removed her and her calf from the deal, and substituted another of our choice.</p><p></p><p>We did get all heifers - 20 bred heifers, and 20 heifer calves - I did not start with steers, as I do want to build up my herd. I am going to let the bred heifers calve out their 2nd or 3rd calve (all 20 were either 2nd calve or 3rd calve) and then breed back the calves on the ground now and the moms after calving at the same time....It may mean waiting a few addittional months to get them all on the same schedule, but since I am only there 2 days out of the week, I want to be able to have them birthing in the same general time frame. I do have help while I am gone, but I prefer to do most everything myself. That way I know it was done right.</p><p></p><p>I do not need the return on capital immediately - I am treating this as a savings account. I want to get up to a good number, with as few health problems as possible. I think I can accomplish that by having good quality grass, good vaccination schedules, and heavy culling of the non-performing cows. I figure if Im going to start out - I might as well start out doing everything right, rather than pasting together something functional over years and years. I waited 3 years to get everything ready and built, so Im hoping it all works out.</p><p></p><p>Now if nature would only cooperate with me. - We have gotten 22 inches of rain in the last 10 days. We needed some rain - but its getting a bit ridiculous.</p><p></p><p>Here are the pics of what we ended up with. Maybe I paid too much but I am happy with what I got, and I made some new friends buying.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]2[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1[/ATTACH]</p><p></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="marksmu, post: 655261, member: 9219"] Well - I picked em up on Sunday - that was an all day ordeal. The momma cows wanted nothing to do with being separated from their calves for the trip down. They put up a big ole show and we ended up having to not buy one that we wanted as she got caught up in the corral panels during loading and was injured. Seller was nice - and removed her and her calf from the deal, and substituted another of our choice. We did get all heifers - 20 bred heifers, and 20 heifer calves - I did not start with steers, as I do want to build up my herd. I am going to let the bred heifers calve out their 2nd or 3rd calve (all 20 were either 2nd calve or 3rd calve) and then breed back the calves on the ground now and the moms after calving at the same time....It may mean waiting a few addittional months to get them all on the same schedule, but since I am only there 2 days out of the week, I want to be able to have them birthing in the same general time frame. I do have help while I am gone, but I prefer to do most everything myself. That way I know it was done right. I do not need the return on capital immediately - I am treating this as a savings account. I want to get up to a good number, with as few health problems as possible. I think I can accomplish that by having good quality grass, good vaccination schedules, and heavy culling of the non-performing cows. I figure if Im going to start out - I might as well start out doing everything right, rather than pasting together something functional over years and years. I waited 3 years to get everything ready and built, so Im hoping it all works out. Now if nature would only cooperate with me. - We have gotten 22 inches of rain in the last 10 days. We needed some rain - but its getting a bit ridiculous. Here are the pics of what we ended up with. Maybe I paid too much but I am happy with what I got, and I made some new friends buying. [ATTACH type="full" alt="herd 2.jpg"]2[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="calve 2.jpg"]1[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="herd 1.jpg"]0[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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