What I'm seeing today

[Angus Cowman]

He's kinda built like a buffalo, but I sure aint saying he won't do a good job. I've seen alot worse make good calves.

Why are you saying he is built like a buffalo ? because he looks taller in the front than the back?
if so he looks that way because he is standing with his front feet on ground that is 16 to 18 inches higher than where his back feet are

actually he has a pretty even topline if standing on flat ground

 

[Red Bull Breeder]

Looks ok to me. He could stand to put on a few pounds, but he will do that pretty quick as soon as Jed gets him signed up.

 

[branguscowgirl]

He looks good enough to me also! Just on the thin side.
You can make anything look out of proportion with the angle of the camera and the lay of the ground.
My pictures are not so good, I am working on that.

 

[TexasBred]

AC owed you some money and you had to take the bull to break even. ;-) Looks like he's missing some groceries, working hard or both.

 

[denvermartinfarms]

He's kinda built like a buffalo, but I sure aint saying he won't do a good job. I've seen alot worse make good calves.

Why are you saying he is built like a buffalo ? because he looks taller in the front than the back?
if so he looks that way because he is standing with his front feet on ground that is 16 to 18 inches higher than where his back feet are

actually he has a pretty even topline if standing on flat ground

That may have been part of it. In that picture he looked especially big in the shoulders and narrow in the back.

 

[sim.-ang.king]

One load out tonight.

 

[denvermartinfarms]

 

[skyhightree1]

 

[denvermartinfarms]

High dollar junk!

 

[denvermartinfarms]

4 months ago the vet said this cow was 7 1/2 months bred, she calved today.



Bought this pair yesterday.

 

[jasonleonard]

It sucks when you buy a cow that is supposed to be heavy bred and you have to wait like that. She did give you a nice calf, though. That red brockle-face will ring the bell in your markets this fall?
I like your white -faced cow there, is the calf bwf or black?

 

[denvermartinfarms]

It sucks when you buy a cow that is supposed to be heavy bred and you have to wait like that. She did give you a nice calf, though. That red brockle-face will ring the bell in your markets this fall?
I like your white -faced cow there, is the calf bwf or black?

The cow that calved is actually a 5 year old out of another old cow I raised from a heifer, I had a bull problem so I had some checked, my good vet is an hour away but I have a vet here close only about 10 minutes away so I tried him, now we know how that went. The heifer calf I will keep and breed to a brangus bull a year from June.

The pair I bought has a solid black bull calf. He's good and the cow hasn't been fed good and still has alot of milk.

 

[TexasBred]

High dollar junk!

Hey man...what are you doing sitting way up there in the cheap seats?? You deserve one of those close up theater chairs. :cowboy:

 

[denvermartinfarms]

High dollar junk!

Hey man...what are you doing sitting way up there in the cheap seats?? You deserve one of those close up theater chairs. :cowboy:

Naa, I was sitting on a bench that's even better than those seats, for some reason I've always set at the top or close to the top at most sales. Then there's a few that are built to where you have to sit close if your wanting to see very good.

 

[TexasBred]

about the cleanest looking sale barn I've seen over the years.

 

[denvermartinfarms]

about the cleanest looking sale barn I've seen over the years.

It was new in about 2001 so it ain't got much time on it.

 

[greybeard]

At least they've got seats in the 'balcony'. The closest one to me just has a couple of raised tiers up there, kinda like an amphitheater. Last time I tried to sit up there, I realized I had gotten old when I had to reach down with my hand and help my leg get high enough to make that step. (taught me to get there earlier).

 

[M5farm]

about the cleanest looking sale barn I've seen over the years.

that's what I thought too. every one I've ever been to has cow Shyt and cobwebs on the walls.

 

[greybeard]

One I go to ooks pretty clean in the lobby at first, but once the break right before the calves are sold happens, that same floor looks like someone dumped a 55 gal drum of cow shyt out on it.
You DON'T want to go to the restroom out under the stairs leading to the catwalks either. Pretty rank even for a salebarn.

 

[denvermartinfarms]

Around here the oldest barns are only as old as the 70s and most of them are very clean with a few exceptions. The more I get out I see it's sure enough not that way everywhere.