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HAY MAKER
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the_jersey_lilly_2000
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Good lookin green stuff Haymaker. So glad ya got rain when ya did. And hopin ya git a lil more here and there where and when its needed.
Them's some nice lookin brangus heifers.......even if that one does have ole elmo's attitude.....I'd take em.
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HAY MAKER
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HAY MAKER
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 8:33 am Post subject: |
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| the_jersey_lilly_2000 wrote: |
Good lookin green stuff Haymaker. So glad ya got rain when ya did. And hopin ya git a lil more here and there where and when its needed.
Them's some nice lookin brangus heifers.......even if that one does have ole elmo's attitude.....I'd take em. |
Yes I thought they looked fair,some he dealed on in Uvalde,ole coot aint said what he wanted for them yet,but was sortin and brandin a few replacements yesterday and decided to try em..............good luck
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the_jersey_lilly_2000
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| Sunday afternoon will be interestin around here, Got Lil Lilly's 5 hiefers for her Pen of 3 Commercials to run in the chute and clip their heads. Somethin we've never done before. I'm sure there'll be lots of bellerin n snot slingin goin on. This group is no where near like the ones she raised last year. They were all calm and some petable. This bunch is totally different, and she's spent more time with these than she did those last year. Strange how that works. They don't hafta be halter broke, so this is gonna be an experience gettin em in the head gate and turnin on a pair of them big ole clippers. I"m just glad it's just their heads, n not their whole bodies. It's not required that you trim their heads, but most of the pens have theirs done. Just makes em look nice and cleaned up. Since she's got a couple that really have "do's" on the top of their head we're gonna give it a go. LOL They look alot like those two you got there, but they are weighin in at about 1000 lbs now I'd say. Hafta wait n see what kinda gain she got when we take em into the fair, they weigh in the same day they go into pens at the fair grounds. They are penned (in a small pasture) for 5 months and fed and bred. Sure would like to just keep em...they are lookin good.
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the_jersey_lilly_2000
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We don't own a trimming chute. them thangs just look way too flimsy to do anything in, with a critter thats not halter broke. The ag mech teacher offered his, but I declined, and told him naw..we'll just put em in the squeeze chute and catch em in the head gate, put the bars on to keep em from raisin or lowerin their heads, and then use the nose pliers on em. If that don't work, then they'll get the halter and tied to the side.
Still won't matter..someone (most likely me) will end up with snot on em. There will be pictures to share I'm sure, since we hafta take pictures to put in record book of everything she does with them. LOL I'm just NOT lookin forward to this job. Trimmin goats is a job in itself..this is gonna be an experience LOL
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 11:30 am Post subject: |
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| It is-I do all of the clipping and trimming in the headgate, and when i start to groom them, but after that, I can susally just tie them up and purty them up. lol. But in the shows I go to you have to use a trimming chute so I always make sure that they arwe ready for that, or i will just tie them to a pole or fence and groom them that way.
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TXTibbs
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HAY MAKER
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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| the_jersey_lilly_2000 wrote: |
We don't own a trimming chute. them thangs just look way too flimsy to do anything in, with a critter thats not halter broke. The ag mech teacher offered his, but I declined, and told him naw..we'll just put em in the squeeze chute and catch em in the head gate, put the bars on to keep em from raisin or lowerin their heads, and then use the nose pliers on em. If that don't work, then they'll get the halter and tied to the side.
Still won't matter..someone (most likely me) will end up with snot on em. There will be pictures to share I'm sure, since we hafta take pictures to put in record book of everything she does with them. LOL I'm just NOT lookin forward to this job. Trimmin goats is a job in itself..this is gonna be an experience LOL |
Can't say as I ever gave a heifer a hair cut,but sounds ta me like you will do alright ,gotta heavy chute with a bar & chains,you get that nose lead on em they will behave,probably right about the snot part....................good luck
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