First year results of summer calving

[Big Muddy rancher]

[gcreekrch]

[rancherfred]

Can't help you with the coyotes but I have seen our chickens kill both mice and sparrows. Kind of funny, I never thought my chickens would be mousers, much less a better ones than that worthless eunuch that hangs around, sheds, and eats cat food. The are mostly buffs and RI Reds that I have seen going after other small living creatures.

[Silver]

[gcreekrch]

It' s interesting how a thread on summer calving has gone to predatory, carnivorous hens to nutless tomcats.

[flyingS]

I'm kind of a chicken and I like to kill coyotes. The only thing that stops me is I am a damn poor shot, had to try a shotgun to see if I could actually get one.

[gcreekrch]

[Big Swede]

I came across this thread from a couple years back and have a question for Justin. Did you ever move your bull turnout date later or are you still at July 15th? With the storms you can get in April up in your area it got me wondering.

[lefty]

If BS was music you boys would have a brass band .
As far as the scour thing goes I think if you constantly bring new cattle to your herd you will always fight the bugs . We scour guard the spring calving cows , But havent the fall bunch so far the fall calvers no problems .
One time the nieghbor had 2 orphan calves bought them over & I put them on cows , those 2 calves never were sick . but that deal killed a bunch of other calves .

& yes wolves will clean up your coyote problem for sure

Good reading , you guys .

[Jinglebob]

I went and helped my son on the ranch he works on the last couple days. We gathered and shipped the calves. These are moderate black angus cows that start calving about April 15. Cows looked great and the calves did also. One string of steers weighed almost 700 pounds and another weighed almost 600. Sold like hotcakes. They have been feeding a few cubes the last month or so and have lots of grass left. Sure looks like they did a good deal. he usually keeps all calves over for yearlings but couldn't pass up these prices and is getting ready for the next drought that will be coming along.

I am thinking of turning in the b8uulss a bit later myself. We start about the same time but am thinking to drop back to 25 of April and see how it goes and maybe keep doing so until we end up about the first to mid May. Just kind of early fall calvers.