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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1690704" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>She might do fine for the neighbor, but not worth taking the chance on her since she is not some high priced fancy animal that you are dying to get off spring from.... </p><p>The drought situation in the west has farmers and ranchers shipping some GOOD cows as they cull to try to be able to afford to buy hay to keep their best.... my heart aches for them... we are seeing a smaller/lighter hay crop this first cutting and rain is hit and miss.... we cut numbers some in the last 2 years and are in pretty good shape, but if it doesn't rain a fair amount soon, we could go to "way too dry" real quick. Only the ones that will do their job and do it well, will still be here. </p><p>Had a 3rd calf cow just have a dead calf... got her in the barn, got a holstein bull calf to put on her. She is an average cow but not mean or anything. Wasn't thrilled with the calf but never kicked it off. A week later it is nursing her whenever it wants and she goes back out to pasture with it this weekend... her disposition and willingness to accept that grafted calf is "plus lots of points" in my book.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1690704, member: 25884"] She might do fine for the neighbor, but not worth taking the chance on her since she is not some high priced fancy animal that you are dying to get off spring from.... The drought situation in the west has farmers and ranchers shipping some GOOD cows as they cull to try to be able to afford to buy hay to keep their best.... my heart aches for them... we are seeing a smaller/lighter hay crop this first cutting and rain is hit and miss.... we cut numbers some in the last 2 years and are in pretty good shape, but if it doesn't rain a fair amount soon, we could go to "way too dry" real quick. Only the ones that will do their job and do it well, will still be here. Had a 3rd calf cow just have a dead calf... got her in the barn, got a holstein bull calf to put on her. She is an average cow but not mean or anything. Wasn't thrilled with the calf but never kicked it off. A week later it is nursing her whenever it wants and she goes back out to pasture with it this weekend... her disposition and willingness to accept that grafted calf is "plus lots of points" in my book. [/QUOTE]
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