How "commercial" are you?

[fluffer]

Ohh, good one...lets see....
1. She stays, for now
2. Talk to DL and see if the cows need tested for something, cull the poorer cows and try to replace as many as I can with the $
3. Oh, I have one of these, yeah, she stays
4. Have one of these too... She will probably stay unless she is on the cull list.
5. If I know $600 will fix her and I know I can't send her to the sale barn cause she can't walk off the trailer, I will fix her if she is one of my better cows, but if she isn't worth $600 on hoof she gets shot
6. GONE!!! Have to worry about that daughter of mine getting killed
7. Be glad my banker also is a cattle breeder and hope he will understand.  Get rid of culls that are open
8. I would say gone, but I do have a couple of those cows that have sold way more $ worth of calves then the average cow.  Those cows get to stay everyone else goes.

 

[xxcc]

1.Your most profitable cow's calf falls off a creek bank  ad dies. What do you do with the cow?

see if anyone you know (that is, anyone with a reputable herd and vaccination program) has an extra calf, graft the calf on the cow.  if she was a first calf heifer that won you all that money, run her over dry.

2.Your bull passes his breeding exam however when you preg check cows only 10% of the cows he was with are settled. What would you do with the cows?

a)  I'd try to rule out all explainable managment issues like bad water source, improper vaccination timing of a modified live virus (MLV) vaccine too close to bull turnout and thus too short of a window for ultrasound preg testing.
b) you only had one bull with your cows?  maybe he went on a walkabout...or ...500 head is too many for one bull.
c) First thing I'd do would be to test the bull for Trich.  If he's negative to a PCR test, ear notch the cows for a BVD test.  If they were clean of biological problems and it was just the consequence of a lousy bull, I'd breed them and sell them into a fall program (since we spring calve).

3.Your daughter's first bucket calf is getting some age and will no longer breed. Do you sell her(the cow not your daughter)? 

I have too big of a heart for that, some cows deserve to die on the place.

4.The dam of your highest indexing heifer calf comes up open. What do you do with the cow?

After weighing out the reasons she's open, send her to town.  Doubt I'd flush her, may not want reproductive problems propogated in the herd anymore.

5.A cow goes down in the pasture. You can save her life and she will be fine after the surgery but the vet bill will be $600. Do you get the cow treated? 

After the vet told me it'd cost $600, I'd ask him if he needed a shell for his .357 or had some with him.

6.You have a easy going cow who is a dream to work with however as soon as she has a calf you can not go within 50 ft of the calf without her charging you. Do you keep the cow? 

She probably weans a 900# calf, that's why she's in the herd.

7.Your cows start aborting calves a month before they are do. Turns out there is a toxin in the hay you have been feeding them. Half of the cows lose their calves what do you do with the cows?

Send them to town, cut your losses and regroup, unless the banker advises running them over.  That's a tough one.

8.Your best cow is getting old. She develops cancer eye and only milks out of three quarters but can still raise a calf with much TLC. What do you do with the cow?

Depends on how much TLC.  If she was that good, she'd only need one quarter.  I'd run her 'til she didn't rebreed.

 

[aj]

I finally got the link between communism and durham RED's. I still haven't deciphered the poem yet.I wasn't a liberal arts major.

 

[knabe]

a brief and shining moment refers to idealism of the camelot of king arthur, not JFK, well i guess they both had relationship problems, though it still bugs me he got his money from playing both sides of the liquor game as well as a monopoly contract with the import of liquor from canada.  the reference to the poem, "it is I" is because every cause needs a champion.  i was acknowledging you as the champion.

here's a youtube with franco nero being dubbed, but still gives me goosebumps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdrEmZ35fxc

here's some trivia about franco
The most obvious casting gaffe was choosing Franco Nero as Lancelot. There's no way to sugar-coat it: he's bad. Not just inadequate, but downright bad. His performance varies from clownish to over-the-top, and, aside from his good looks, it's inconceivable why anyone would cast him in the role. His singing voice is dubbed by Gene Merlino, making Lancelot the strongest singer in the group, and there are rumors that Nero's accent was so thick that, at least on some occasions, his speaking voice had to be dubbed, as well. One can only imagine how much stronger Camelot could have been with a more effective actor in this critical part.

i kinda liked him, so over the top.  kinda like hemi cuda painted bug green


you will succeed where a less fantastic man would fell!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hm, this one is kinda strange

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDZuiv88EQA&feature=related


ladies, do the blue eyes do anything for you, you know when he's looking almost right at you?

 

[aj]

In college I once tried to write in iambic pentamiter. But I felt the "Jack Daniels decanter" helped me more than anything.