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Soapweed
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Location: northern Nebraska Sandhills
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Jinglebob
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Location: Western South Dakota
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movin' on
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Joined: 25 Nov 2006
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Location: Independence, KS
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| Great pictures. When do you start calving?
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Soapweed
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Location: northern Nebraska Sandhills
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elwapo
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Location: medicine hat
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| I like your pics and the cattle!
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movin' on
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Joined: 25 Nov 2006
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Location: Independence, KS
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| Soapweed, it seems like most of your cattle are just my type. Lots of bone, capacity and depth. Mind telling me a little about where you get your bulls? I've been buying mine from a fellow over by Canton, Kansas that has a lot of Hoff genetics with a few other soggy type bloodlines thrown in. He has even been experimenting with some 1/4 simmental bulls lately. I feel like the angus (black) industry has really gotten watered down the last few years but there are still some really good ones up in your country. Any thoughts?
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Soapweed
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Location: northern Nebraska Sandhills
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| Soapweed, it seems like most of your cattle are just my type. Lots of bone, capacity and depth. Mind telling me a little about where you get your bulls? I've been buying mine from a fellow over by Canton, Kansas that has a lot of Hoff genetics with a few other soggy type bloodlines thrown in. He has even been experimenting with some 1/4 simmental bulls lately. I feel like the angus (black) industry has really gotten watered down the last few years but there are still some really good ones up in your country. Any thoughts? |
I am not real particular about where bulls are purchased. Commercial bulls fill the need just as well as registered. I like to buy high quality bulls in quantity, for as cheap a price as can be negotiated. Usually we buy all yearling bulls in the spring, use them one season, and sell them in the fall. This past year, the bulls cost a little more than usual and the fall market was not real good, so I elected to keep them over for another year. A friend thirty miles away is wintering them, for the cost of $1.50 per bull per day. This is about as cheap as they could be wintered here at home, if hay was abundant. By wintering them away, we are saving hay for cows that will calve in the spring. It is nice not having the bulls around tearing up the furniture and getting into trouble.
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movin' on
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Location: Independence, KS
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| Gotcha. Thanks for the reply. I wouldn't be at all opposed to using commercial bulls if I knew where to aquire good ones. Yes, $1.50 a day really is a good deal isn't it. Seems high at first, but it's not at all.
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Red Robin
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Joined: 23 Apr 2005
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Location: 8 mi S.E. of Harrison, Ar.
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| The Chain Ranch in Ks, and Oklahoma raise a nice set of commercial bulls and provide quite a bit of data on reasonably priced bulls.
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Sandy
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Location: Lake Manitoba
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:23 am Post subject: |
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| I was wondering Mr. Soapweed what kind of ration those good look'in heifer calves are on?
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Shortgrass
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Joined: 25 Sep 2006
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Location: Eastern Colorado
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| Good pics of good cattle. When I saw pics on the 2nd followed by pics on the 3rd, I was thinking we might see a snowstorm having moved in. That is what happened to us on this, the 5th. When you said the wind was west, I knew that would not be the case. If I recall right, it is an east wind that brings moisture to the sandhills. Windmill pics are always nice. I like the windbreak over the bunk. That looks like a good protection device.
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Jassy
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Joined: 23 Aug 2006
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Location: S. of Valentine, NE
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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| As good as your cattle pictures are Soapweed..you know me..I'm kinda partial to the windmill sunsets...so pretty..
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