First let me say I appreciate all the knowledge and information I’ve gained from you all over the past couple years! Had I known some of what y’all know maybe I wouldn’t have been learning all this the hard way! In any case, here’s my dilemma:
We are in extreme drought in our part of southeast Oklahoma! No grass and no hay! Just prior to the rain stopping I sold three cows and bought two “purebred angus ‘replacement quality’ open” heifers. They are most certainly open! I bought them “sight unseen”, yes that’s dumb and when I unloaded them and got them next to my heifers the same age realized I had been taken!
I called the seller who immediately began to assure me he would make it right! I have gone back and forth with him and each time, prior to the last time, he assured me he was going to make it right! The last time he said, “I will call you tomorrow evening” and that has yet to happen.
The one heifer is not too bad size and looks wise but has 24-36 hour heat cycles but will not stand for breeding! And, she likes to go under or through fences!
The smaller one, is out of an ET heifer that apparently did a horrible job as a momma. She is tiny and frail and covered with warts. I know they will go away but in the meantime I call her Hogwart because she’s about the size of a big sow and has plenty of warts.
Both heifers have some mental issues that they didn’t get here and both were bought to AI and or breed to our Balancer bull to raise and sell custom processed beef!
Since the market has crashed I’m going to lose unless I can feed one or both out and sell per hanging hot weight. 3/1/21 and 5/7/21 are their birth dates. I’m not really interested in trying to keep the oldest one penned but do y’all think I can put some meat on the younger one and make decent beef out of her? If the older one cycles again in 19 days she is going to the sale barn.
Thanks for reading this letter and thanks again for all the information y’all have shared over the years.
By the way, when the seller says we don’t keep crazy infertile heifers on our place that probably means what he is selling you is just that! Buyer beware!
We are in extreme drought in our part of southeast Oklahoma! No grass and no hay! Just prior to the rain stopping I sold three cows and bought two “purebred angus ‘replacement quality’ open” heifers. They are most certainly open! I bought them “sight unseen”, yes that’s dumb and when I unloaded them and got them next to my heifers the same age realized I had been taken!
I called the seller who immediately began to assure me he would make it right! I have gone back and forth with him and each time, prior to the last time, he assured me he was going to make it right! The last time he said, “I will call you tomorrow evening” and that has yet to happen.
The one heifer is not too bad size and looks wise but has 24-36 hour heat cycles but will not stand for breeding! And, she likes to go under or through fences!
The smaller one, is out of an ET heifer that apparently did a horrible job as a momma. She is tiny and frail and covered with warts. I know they will go away but in the meantime I call her Hogwart because she’s about the size of a big sow and has plenty of warts.
Both heifers have some mental issues that they didn’t get here and both were bought to AI and or breed to our Balancer bull to raise and sell custom processed beef!
Since the market has crashed I’m going to lose unless I can feed one or both out and sell per hanging hot weight. 3/1/21 and 5/7/21 are their birth dates. I’m not really interested in trying to keep the oldest one penned but do y’all think I can put some meat on the younger one and make decent beef out of her? If the older one cycles again in 19 days she is going to the sale barn.
Thanks for reading this letter and thanks again for all the information y’all have shared over the years.
By the way, when the seller says we don’t keep crazy infertile heifers on our place that probably means what he is selling you is just that! Buyer beware!
