We have been all over the place on these 24 pages! Lots of good info on here, once you filter through the pigeon assaults! So, there are no longer 120 Corriente cows on the place, Someone on these boards ( they can tell who they are if they want to) contacted me and wanted 25 solid colored Corriente cows that were pregnant with their 2nd to 5th calf. My friend only had 16 solids, though. He moved those 16 to his place that has facilities last month, to get them all the shots etc. needed for the health certificate . Poured on Ivermectin, as much for the ticks as for worms. Today they left for their new home. We had no way of knowing if any of these got bred by the Corriente clean-=up bull in June, but the new owner said they'd be fine if a couple had a Corriente calf...just hoped they would be heifers.
Last Friday he bush-hogged the 6-7 acres of Johnson grass by the gate, pens and pond. This will be parking for those coming to the dove shoot Saturday. He has a dove field about 1/2 mile down the road. He parks them there and shuttles them to the dove field. and, we set up tents to feed everyone with there, too. That's where I come in, and I dread this Saturday! This is the first year in GA, opening day begins at dawn instead of 12 noon, as it has been all of my life. I will start the fire in the smokers for the brisket at 4 AM, and gonna fry some deer sausage, wild hog sausage, deer tenderloin and wild hog tenderloin to serve with biscuits for breakfast that morning. At noon they all come back for a Labor day fish fry: Catfish, slaw, hushpuppies and fries, and a LOT of sweet tea. After noon, I will put the chickens, butts and ribs on the smokers. They don't take no where near as long as brisket....I smoke brisket 12 hours. At dusk, everyone comes back over there, and we feed them BBQ and fixins, and cold beer. He does not allow alcohol or even coolers on the dove field, but after the guns are put away, people can enjoy good food, cold beer and music. We will have a generator out there to power the PA and lights for a band. Good times! $250 to shoot that day, and only 200 spots are sold. All proceeds he donates to the county 4H and FFA. He just takes out for food, the seed and fertilizer ( the field is alternating strips of sunflower, corn, millet and peanuts), and the insurance for the event. The net is probably $30k or more, so its is a great thing for the 4H and FFA kids. Those kids and their parents and advisors, do parking, and serving and clean-up...a BIG help. I gotta cook from 4Am til probably 7PM., so I doubt I will get to shoot any Saturday!
When he cut the Johnson Grass last Friday, it had already headed out with seed, and under it, is volunteer wheat and millet from past dove fields. He said after he cut it Friday, it was covered up with dove and wild pigeons Saturday morning. So Monday he bushogged what patches of JG he could get to with his tractor. Probably 30 acres all totalled. Family and friends will shoot this Monday. Anyone who came to the paid hunt Saturday, can come back Monday and shoot either place for free.
Anyway, I will be gone from Friday til Tuesday, so all of you have a safe and happy Labor Day weekend