calf and new barn pics

[firesweepranch]

Well, thought I would do an update. For Christmas, my husband gave me..... A New Barn!!! We have been doing this since 2007 with no barn. Tied cattle in shade under a hickory tree, then built a three sided 8 x 16 shed to tie under. Our wash rack consists of tying the cattle to a pipe corral, and wash in the mud outdoors. So, we built a 100 x 40 foot barn, and are going to build it to my liking inside. I plan on putting in a 16 foot wash rack, concrete floor, and one entire wall (100 foot) running pipe panels to tie to when breaking calves (the wash rack will be included in that 100 foot). Anyway, I am pretty excited! I also want to build a room for all my AI equipment, very difficult around here to load the kit and semen tank in the back of the car/truck and breed with flashlights and a power converter to keep the water warm when we AI  
Then, I decided to include some photos I took on my phone this morning. The two red calves are Rendition twins (identical - late Oct), dam is a Macho x Summer Sister. The red calf with a white face is a Built Right embryo (September). We had a bull out of the same flush we sold last spring, but he was black with a white face. And my favorite right now, our Make It Rain bull calf (solid black calf, October). He is a 3/4 blood, his dam is a Draft pick/Angus x Macho. We are flushing her Sunday, bred her to Mo Better (our best bull calf was her bull last year by Mo Better). Anyway, pretty giddy over here!
Thanks for listening to my rambling. Any suggestions on how to set up the barn would be welcomed!

 

[Mueller Show Cattle]

Congrats on your new barn and calves. Having the proper set up helps alot, we built a 100ft by 40ft barn/shop this summer. The shop is 40x40 and the barn is 40x60. We have been building pens the past couple of weekends and getting ready to build a wash bay, want to have everything ready come spring calving. The back of our barn connects to our corral which makes it nice for handling the calves/cows with opening gates and closing some we can drive them rite into pens or wash bay we want. It is exciting to get a new barn. I use the shop to store my AI and tack equipment then use the barn that is mostly pens and a wash bay beside 1 area that I stack some small square bales of hay and store feed in. I'm also going to build some AI chutes in the barn to make it easier than using my squeeze chute and less stressful on the cows, just small chutes that they can't turn around in or go forward and put a chain behind to keep them from back out. Was that type of set up at the AI school I went to and loved how it worked, would like to build 3 to where I could get set up for 3 cows at a time which will go alot faster then 1 cow at a time with my squeeze chute. Have fun.