True Grit Farms
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We're going to slaughter a steer for the first time in years. I'm looking forward to the butchering, processing and eating of Spot, the killing part not so much.
The benefit of low cattle prices.
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Clodhopper
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Another benefit is it's cheaper to go in more debt when you buy more cows.
Jogeephus
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Not Spot! How could you?
ClinchValley
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Clodhopper":3rm1ljzt said:
That's been my train of thought lately.
True Grit Farms
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Jogeephus":lskharag said:
If some women would just act like ladies, he'd of had a happy lifetime home.
Bestoutwest
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True Grit Farms":24n5er2o said:
Nooooooooootttt Spoooooooooooooott!!!!!! You heathen!
My wife and son name everything around our place. It makes it really not fun when something dies.
NECowboy
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Bestoutwest":27j6iumy said:
Do you name them things like Santiago and Rinaldi?
Bestoutwest
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NECowboy":bmbt0703 said:
Ha! No, we have an Annie b/c she was an orphan. And an Icee Hott b/c I have a little kid. Our cats are named Hawk and Dot (again, little kid). Chickens all have names. It's bad.
farmerjan
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We have certain cow families that have names, and there are cows that have real personalities that get nicknames even when they have numbers....but I don't have a problem with eating a "named" animal. Mostly anything that is likely to be designated as freezer beef gets a name like "rump roast or steak"....I have become much less "sentimental" as I have gotten older and am usually the one that says an animal has to go when it comes up open or is old or doesn't produce a calf up to snuff even when it is a pet. Cried when we had to ship our old red poll bull; he was having trouble getting up due to arthritis and was as sweet as any animal we ever had. Never saw him breed a cow but never had anything come up open when he was used in any pasture. But I wouldn't watch him suffer through a winter when he started getting so stiff in the hind leg, and he was getting some real age on him. I never make a steer a pet so don't have to feel bad about selling/eating them...not even the ones I raise on nurse cows or bottles. I regularly raise and have butchered jersey steers for my own beef and they are raised as bottle babies or grafted on nurse cows that I spend alot of time with in the barn lot. They are there for a reason and I try not to let them become something that they are not....I also feel better about killing one that I have raised as opposed to sending them off to a strange place and not getting treated decently at the end....And I have an "orphan Annie" too, and she was given a reprieve when we finally caught her out at pasture after her mother died, she isn't much, but gotta respect the will to live.
Nesikep
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i've just run out of names I like.. Few steers get names anymore, and not all the heifers do either.. The replacements usually do though.
Farmerjan, Your bull sounds like my old cow Rosie I put down 3 years ago.. I couldn't have her go through another winter with her arthritis
Farmerjan, Your bull sounds like my old cow Rosie I put down 3 years ago.. I couldn't have her go through another winter with her arthritis
john250
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The only steer I ever named was "ribeye'.
BK9954
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I only name the bulls. Caught my childrens nanny calling my new bull ugly in Spanish so I named him "El Guapo" which means "the handsome". Caught my kids naming a little brown cow butterscotch. I was going to sell that one. Wound up giving the cow up for adoption to my daughter for her birthday. All of my livestock goes by a number except the bull. Easier that way.
I have a lot of my cows named. Speck and Charity are the twins. Come running as soon as they see the truck for a treat. Some names I have are Lily, Nell, Buffy, Mica, Bunny, Joy, Hope, Bug, his mother is Ladybug, Lady, Brock, Mikie, Snowball. I named one Faith, but she was so wild I call her Cat now. I also have Buttercup, Ruby, Buffalo Girl, Pretty Girl, Speckles, Black Beauty, Pet, Lon,a little calf born on my grandfather's birthday so I named him after my granddaddy. Sunny, SuSu, Star, Daisy and the others are just numbers.
I know I let myself get to close to them, but it is hard not to. I sure could not eat one of them. My daddy always butchered one and sold some to his friends that he worked with on the railroad. I guess always having beef to eat makes me not want to eat it now. My daughter loves beef and has to have it regularly.
I know I let myself get to close to them, but it is hard not to. I sure could not eat one of them. My daddy always butchered one and sold some to his friends that he worked with on the railroad. I guess always having beef to eat makes me not want to eat it now. My daughter loves beef and has to have it regularly.
Craig Miller
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We have named a few. Ribeye. Hamburger. Steak. Stripey. Fluffy ears. Blacky. Whitey. We're creative like that.
crossbredcalves
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Next year's Jersey is named Ferdinand. We bought him off a lady who had named all her milk cows and their calves, so we aren't to blame.
bigbull338
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with the low prices ive got a dink bull calf that i may pen and put on feed.but not sure yet as the freezer is full.
TexasBred
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I could help you out with that oversupply of beef and veggies. :nod: :nod:bigbull338":advohq71 said:
Bestoutwest
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Craig Miller":2lh55i3o said:
I tried by naming our first bull "Bull." But the cows get "real" names. I like your names, they work well.
