O9 Calves

[justintime]

We will have about 220 calves, unless I get the 50- 60 cows sold that I was hoping to sell before Christmas sold in February. These are commercial cows but all the bred cow sales in December were packed full when I tried to book mine in November. Lots of people up here sick of being sliced and diced a hundred different ways in the commercial markets. In my case, I am getting tired of it as well. I sold 3 heifer calves, 3 bred heifers, 1 pregnancy, along with 2 flushes, in a purebred sale last fall and got more for them than I received for 61 commercial calves.My embryo sales were  triple what my commercial calves brought in.l One of my neighbours told me he sold his calves last fall and just got enough money to make his tractor and baler payment. Nothing more for the hundred other expenses in this business. I keep thinking that some day we, as food producers, will be appreciated.

That said, I am looking forward to a new set of calves. We start with a set of ET calves around Feb 1. Another set in mid Feb. AI calves start also in mid Feb. We synchronized a set of cows and heifers to calves in late Feb, and turned out 6 bulls on the same day, so things could get interesting in late Feb.  There is something about calving time that gets a guy excited again.

 

[red]

had one in December. The rest are all due within 2 weeks of each other starting in the end of February. 7 more to go. Used Hard Core, Money Man, Gigolo Joe & Gizmo for a little different breeding.

Red

 

[Chap]

will have about 70 this year.  Alias, Sunseeker, Monopoly, Point Taken, Buckcherry, #22 Unforgiven, High Voltage and Exclusive.  21 cows (mostly Destiny Ace Daughters) we bought from Deiter's dispersal bred to Copyright and New Edition.  Heifers to Stevenson Benchmark and CE Deluxe.  ET calves by My Turn, Alias, Heatwave, Point Taken and Dream On.

 

[Beach Limousin]

We are expecting 23 calves this spring summer by:
RGMA Night Rider
Wulfs Nasa
EDGE Endeavor 202M
Polled Independence 32E

Hopefully will have 30+ in 2010

 

[showcattlegal]

we should have 25 calves out of sunseeker, point taken, monopoly, milkman, hard core, ali and Pha free contender bull we cleaned up with.

 

[inthebarnagain]

1 Northern Lite
1 Dreamcatcher
1 Duff New Attraction
1 T510
1 Northern Improvement
4 430's
2 ranchhand
10 bred to a Goldmine/Meyer 734 angus X
18 bred to a OCC Legend/600U

 

[justme]

8 Gigolo Joes
10 Money Man
1 HAA Stockman (Cann't wait for it!)
1 Mama's Boy
about 8 Boom Box

 

[cowman]

What calves are u expecting this year? were only expecting 2 this year.

We expect a bit of variety this year....

DJ Salute * Stockman 365 Angus - couple ET calves
Point Taken * Stockman 365 Angus
Friction Son * Angus
Alias * Maine/Angus
White Warrior * Angus
Crimson Tide * Angus
Crimson Tide * Red Angus
Friction Son * Maine/Angus
Dirty Harry * Simm/Maine/Angus

Cowman

 

[redwingfarm]

between my brother and I we have
2  Star power
1  Ali
1  King meyer
1  Hard Core
2  Gladiator  SH  herd sire  centurion/fools dancer
several out of 734/angus herd sire

 

[OhShOwEr]

4 hard Cores
4 Naughty pines
1 Strictly business
2 heatwaves
2 Doctor Whos
2 Hannibals
Rest to our herd bull

23 in all

 

[BIGTEX]

1 Monopoly
1 Dr. Who
1 Yellow Jacket
1 Naughty Pine
1 Golden Child
10 Brangus that we AI

150 commercial cows.

 

[dutch pride]

6 in all, Most ever. Not sure if that is a good thing or not
2 Strictly business
1 Sunseeker
1 Paddy o malloy
1 Sin City
1 Radio Active

DLZ

 

[CJC]

between my brother and I we have
2   Star power
1   Ali
1   King meyer
1   Hard Core
2  Gladiator  SH  herd sire  centurion/fools dancer
several out of 734/angus herd sire

Let me know how the King Meyer turns out.

 

[Spring Creek Farms]

1 RS After Hours ( Bought a bred from K-Kim)
4 Our Herd Bull ( Sonny/ Augusta Pride 883)
2 Pure Solution (ET)

Thats all in the Spring but alot coming in the Fall and just had 10

 

[Cattledog]

6 BC Marathon 7022
4 SAV Bismarck

 

[furinsilex]

We bred about 50 cows last spring/summer.
Bred to
Heatwave 1
Sunseeker
Hairy
Dr Who
I am Legend
Hannibal
Maximus
Tyson
Checks in the Mail
Strictly Buisness

and about 12 heifers to
734 (1) bought in a sale*
grizzly (1) bought
Total solution
Witch Doctor
004

Had our first birth today came out as twins. Doin fine out of Checks in The Mail

 

[Cattledog]

6 BC Marathon 7022
4 SAV Bismarck

Just had our first one!  85 pounder out of Bismarck. Alive and well!

 

[midway6376]

6 BC Marathon 7022
4 SAV Bismarck

Just had our first one!  85 pounder out of Bismarck. Alive and well!

85lbs that is kinda big for how low his birth weight is.

 

[shortyisqueen]

We are just getting started for 2009, with 20 calves on the ground out of about 100 head. In addition to our herd sires Canasta (Sonny son), Maverick (Mr. Gus 30B son),  and Grandmaster (Quartermaster son) - all Shorthorns, and our Headliner 10H son (Hereford), we used DR World Class (Hereford), Churchill (Shorthorn), Gold Count (Shorthorn) Dr Who, Manchild, and Gigolo Joe.

It has been pretty exciting so far and we've had some really nice babies. This morning, we got a blue Gigolo Joe bull calf that looks like he'll make a pretty decent steer. I can't wait for the rest!!

 

[nck21]

What calves are u expecting this year? were only expecting 2 this year.

We expect a bit of variety this year....


White Warrior * Angus

                 

Let me know how your white warrior calf comes out Cowman. We're showing a WW steer this year. We really like him. He won the charolais division at the Kansas beef expo.