Steer-calves (lots of pics)

IluvAltaBeef · Member Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 271 Location: Alberta

Hi everyone. This is my first post, been reading on here for a while and finally built up the nerve to post. I'm more of a farm girl than a rancher, but I've been around cattle all my life, working with them and the whole bit, but I'm still learning about the industry.

We (me and my folks) buy and sell commercial-breed steers, backgrounding them for about a year before they're shipped off to the local feedlot only a couple miles away. They're fed on feed that are grown on our land, and pastured too for the summer months, before they're sold in the fall.

We don't do the cow-calf operation, but me, I've got an interest in the whole deal and am learning a lot just by reading, and also the schooling I'm getting in becoming an animal scientist at the U of Alberta.

Here's some pics of this year's herd: they're seven months old now, btw, and a lot calmer than last year's steers.

Early this morning calves up and at 'em

At an eatin' down bale

Some more at the same spot

Back bunch eating at some silage

What you lookin' at??

HerefordX steer: he's a bit wild, that's why I had to take the pic thru the bale feeder

They're looking at something (hint: cats, lol)

One of my pet farm cats nose-to-nose with a steer, lol

One of those red angusxshorthorn steers

Friends and the some of the front bunch

More of the front bunch at the bale

A glimpse of the farm and calves

Head-butting competition (I think the black one won)

Front and back bunch

Red angus steer, in nice-lookin shape

There they are, they're still young and got a fair bit of growing to do yet. But I can't wait to see what they're like out on pasture this summer.

Smile