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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1770742" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>No, I never miss any cows! I have had some horses I miss, and a couple of dogs, but no cows! LOL Now, I will miss the easy money and nearly-zero work to get it that we enjoyed with the Corriente Kudzu herd. I still have 7 Corr steers that I keep over at my buddy's house, whose arena we rope in. There are 8 of us that rope every week, sometimes 2 nights a week and we all bought a few Corr steers and put them together to make a roping herd of 30 steers. And I am half-owner of the 4 Corr heifers we have down there. And the bull is mine.</p><p></p><p>I am still doing a little of what I like to do most of all with cattle...buying and SELLING! Just not as much. I had an order for 25 Corriente cows and heifers, solid colored. ( Dunno why he wanted all solid because he is gonna breed them to Brangus bulls). He is paying $600 a head plus shipping. I got them for $350 in Lousiana and they will be delivered to him Saturday.</p><p></p><p> Only other project I got going on, I just got last night. Buddy of mine has just finished an $8.3 mil commercial building, and is getting a $180k bonus for finishing 3 months ahead of schedule. He wanted to buy as many Brahma cows as he could with that...hoping to get 100. That amount will probably just get him 70-75, though. I told him it is going to take $2500 a head for what he wants.... all grey (he calls them white) and polled. I am not going to mark them up. He is going to just pay me $5k plus expenses to get them for him as cheap as I can, but get top-notch cattle. I almost told him I couldn't do it, because I figured it would take a LOT of time to put that together. But, I made a couple of calls this morning, and a trader friend of mine said he was 80 1st calf heifers for sale in Florida, bred to Hereford and due in February and March. He's going to find out if the place still has them and how much they want for them, and let me know tonight! Then, I have to call my client and talk him into it. He wanted 2nd calf and up cows, because he plans on breeding them to Charolais and Chianina bulls. Then taking those heifers from those crosses and breeding them back the other way... Br x Char to Chianina, and vice versa. He wants to develope his own " Ultra Whites". Pretty ambitious for a 74 yr old man. I am going to tell him that those heifers bred to a Hereford will have little to no trouble calving,( they will be 25 to 26 months old when they calve) and those 80 f1 Brafords will bring a hell of a lot better price than what he is trying to do. Who know, IF we get them and IF he likes the money those calves would bring, maybe he will give up on the "Ultra White" thing and breed them back Hereford each year. Around here at least, any f1Braford cows for sale last maybe a day on the market before someone gets them. I am going to offer and incentive myself for him to get those 80 heifers. I am going to tell him if we buy them this week, and get them delivered, then he just pays me $1600...$20 per head... instead of $5k. Not bad for spending a day and night on the phone and the internet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1770742, member: 40587"] No, I never miss any cows! I have had some horses I miss, and a couple of dogs, but no cows! LOL Now, I will miss the easy money and nearly-zero work to get it that we enjoyed with the Corriente Kudzu herd. I still have 7 Corr steers that I keep over at my buddy's house, whose arena we rope in. There are 8 of us that rope every week, sometimes 2 nights a week and we all bought a few Corr steers and put them together to make a roping herd of 30 steers. And I am half-owner of the 4 Corr heifers we have down there. And the bull is mine. I am still doing a little of what I like to do most of all with cattle...buying and SELLING! Just not as much. I had an order for 25 Corriente cows and heifers, solid colored. ( Dunno why he wanted all solid because he is gonna breed them to Brangus bulls). He is paying $600 a head plus shipping. I got them for $350 in Lousiana and they will be delivered to him Saturday. Only other project I got going on, I just got last night. Buddy of mine has just finished an $8.3 mil commercial building, and is getting a $180k bonus for finishing 3 months ahead of schedule. He wanted to buy as many Brahma cows as he could with that...hoping to get 100. That amount will probably just get him 70-75, though. I told him it is going to take $2500 a head for what he wants.... all grey (he calls them white) and polled. I am not going to mark them up. He is going to just pay me $5k plus expenses to get them for him as cheap as I can, but get top-notch cattle. I almost told him I couldn't do it, because I figured it would take a LOT of time to put that together. But, I made a couple of calls this morning, and a trader friend of mine said he was 80 1st calf heifers for sale in Florida, bred to Hereford and due in February and March. He's going to find out if the place still has them and how much they want for them, and let me know tonight! Then, I have to call my client and talk him into it. He wanted 2nd calf and up cows, because he plans on breeding them to Charolais and Chianina bulls. Then taking those heifers from those crosses and breeding them back the other way... Br x Char to Chianina, and vice versa. He wants to develope his own " Ultra Whites". Pretty ambitious for a 74 yr old man. I am going to tell him that those heifers bred to a Hereford will have little to no trouble calving,( they will be 25 to 26 months old when they calve) and those 80 f1 Brafords will bring a hell of a lot better price than what he is trying to do. Who know, IF we get them and IF he likes the money those calves would bring, maybe he will give up on the "Ultra White" thing and breed them back Hereford each year. Around here at least, any f1Braford cows for sale last maybe a day on the market before someone gets them. I am going to offer and incentive myself for him to get those 80 heifers. I am going to tell him if we buy them this week, and get them delivered, then he just pays me $1600...$20 per head... instead of $5k. Not bad for spending a day and night on the phone and the internet. [/QUOTE]
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