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<blockquote data-quote="cowgirl8" data-source="post: 1710379" data-attributes="member: 22072"><p>As long as you dont lose any... It happens. And as long as the weather cooperates and doesnt plunge into the 30s with rain and mud. The 50+ heifers we've been feeding, we have a stampeder in the mix. One day they spooked the herd and they broke through a very secure gate by breaking a large chain that has been used for over 35 years and was one gate we never felt was one calves would go through.. Luckily, they got out into another pasture and not onto a road where they can make tracks and go who knows where losing one or two along the way. No one was hurt that we could tell other than a steer we held back because he was limping and planned to sell with the next steers ( he appears to have injured his neck now, who knows when that happened and if it was his original injury or did it busting through the gate) We'll lose a lot on him if he dies, or, we get yet another gimpy calf to put in the freezer. That takes some of that extra you'd make weaning... Weaning steers is too iffy... wean them one week and by the time you are ready to sell someone coughs mad cow on the news and prices are lower that sale.. Pull them off the cow at 6am, unload at a sale at 7:30am....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowgirl8, post: 1710379, member: 22072"] As long as you dont lose any... It happens. And as long as the weather cooperates and doesnt plunge into the 30s with rain and mud. The 50+ heifers we've been feeding, we have a stampeder in the mix. One day they spooked the herd and they broke through a very secure gate by breaking a large chain that has been used for over 35 years and was one gate we never felt was one calves would go through.. Luckily, they got out into another pasture and not onto a road where they can make tracks and go who knows where losing one or two along the way. No one was hurt that we could tell other than a steer we held back because he was limping and planned to sell with the next steers ( he appears to have injured his neck now, who knows when that happened and if it was his original injury or did it busting through the gate) We'll lose a lot on him if he dies, or, we get yet another gimpy calf to put in the freezer. That takes some of that extra you'd make weaning... Weaning steers is too iffy... wean them one week and by the time you are ready to sell someone coughs mad cow on the news and prices are lower that sale.. Pull them off the cow at 6am, unload at a sale at 7:30am.... [/QUOTE]
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