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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 825713" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>Thanks Iso - WOW been gone a few hours and you've been a busy boy Houston! Better take a few more pills. Honestly, I do hope you feel better. Bummer to be hurting.</p><p>Just to clarify (not that I NEED to justify what or what not I do - bottom line - I MAKE MONEY AT IT)</p><p><strong>Barn:</strong> My mature cows "know" that the only time they get in the barn is to calve. So, when I move them up close to the barn from the back 40, they aren't stupid - they want in the barn! out of the wind & on a dry bed. They don't even really get fed - I may throw down a flake of dry hay, but they aren't there to eat. They are there to have a protected area to calve - they get kicked out in the morning if they didn't calve during night - outside where I can observe them. Calf born - in 1 day - out to the weather. Calves do have protection from the weather after I kick them out - mom's don't.</p><p><strong>Blow dry</strong>- we do blow dry our cattle at the shows - never at home. I mentioned that we used the blow dryer to blow them off before the pics - but that was to get the sh$t balls or dirt off of them as best as possible.</p><p><strong>Baleage</strong> - best invention for putting up hay in NY. :banana: We RARELY get 3 days without rain. Extremely difficult to put up dry hay until mid summer (July/Aug) and that's real iffy. I don't own any hay equipment except the spears on my one and only tractor. If you wait for the weather to put up hay, you end up with crap hay done in July. We have ours done 1st week in June (which is still good early hay here - maybe about 2-3 weeks behind the dairymen)</p><p>Ignorance is bliss. My total cow cost has always been under $500/hd/year (taxes, fert, feed, hired hay labor, fuel, etc). The last 2 years my STEERS averaged $747. My breeding stock is a bit higher profit. So, you run your Texas herd the way you NEED to run it down there and I'll run mine under the stipulations dictated to me by my environment in as close to the best management possible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 825713, member: 968"] Thanks Iso - WOW been gone a few hours and you've been a busy boy Houston! Better take a few more pills. Honestly, I do hope you feel better. Bummer to be hurting. Just to clarify (not that I NEED to justify what or what not I do - bottom line - I MAKE MONEY AT IT) [b]Barn:[/b] My mature cows "know" that the only time they get in the barn is to calve. So, when I move them up close to the barn from the back 40, they aren't stupid - they want in the barn! out of the wind & on a dry bed. They don't even really get fed - I may throw down a flake of dry hay, but they aren't there to eat. They are there to have a protected area to calve - they get kicked out in the morning if they didn't calve during night - outside where I can observe them. Calf born - in 1 day - out to the weather. Calves do have protection from the weather after I kick them out - mom's don't. [b]Blow dry[/b]- we do blow dry our cattle at the shows - never at home. I mentioned that we used the blow dryer to blow them off before the pics - but that was to get the sh$t balls or dirt off of them as best as possible. [b]Baleage[/b] - best invention for putting up hay in NY. :banana: We RARELY get 3 days without rain. Extremely difficult to put up dry hay until mid summer (July/Aug) and that's real iffy. I don't own any hay equipment except the spears on my one and only tractor. If you wait for the weather to put up hay, you end up with crap hay done in July. We have ours done 1st week in June (which is still good early hay here - maybe about 2-3 weeks behind the dairymen) Ignorance is bliss. My total cow cost has always been under $500/hd/year (taxes, fert, feed, hired hay labor, fuel, etc). The last 2 years my STEERS averaged $747. My breeding stock is a bit higher profit. So, you run your Texas herd the way you NEED to run it down there and I'll run mine under the stipulations dictated to me by my environment in as close to the best management possible. [/QUOTE]
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