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[R A]

 

[Faster horses]

Nice pictures of nice cows. But they are so darn wild, how do you ever
get anything done with them??????????

 

[gcreekrch]

When ill your trees loose their leaves? By Oct 15 ours are pretty well done.

Judging your bull by his progeny, he looks just fine. :wink: What are you planning to breed his daughters to?

 

[R A]

Nice pictures of nice cows. But they are so darn wild, how do you ever
get anything done with them??????????

Thanks! I do want to apologize for posting such wild eyed, tails in the air, type cattle on here! Here at the RA, we don't believe in spending hours with our cattle to know who to cull, or any taming, training or anything like that to suit our needs and goals, we just spend all day at the coffee houses, check them once a month if there isn't a good ball game on and try to keep them within two counties of where they should be....

I sold two heifers last year that I was going to keep based just on how they acted being halter broke...lol....sold their moms too. I'm going to have a big herd of being able to pour them all while grazing in the pasture type cattle.

 

[R A]

When ill your trees loose their leaves? By Oct 15 ours are pretty well done.

I went and grabbed some pics of last Oct here at my place. taken Oct 3rd - 27th...I believe in reverse order???

These were all taken in Nov of last year. Looks like the leaves were gone by the end of Nov last year. Anything can start to happen here in Nov.

 

[R A]

Judging your bull by his progeny, he looks just fine. :wink: What are you planning to breed his daughters to?

Thanks on that! I like his calves better than I like him or my cows.....for something to start with anyway. Long story short - I'm breeding his daughters back to him until I have my intial cow loan paid off. So, I have a couple years here to think about it, unless I come across great wealth or this crossing just sucks something awful...which I know how things can line up doing this.

I'll always have Horned Hereford bulls on boughten Angus cows on my ground somewhere....I really like doing this! Then experiment on the baldy heifers. To be honest, as of right now, I see a herd of my baldies I have raised, eating green grass and Brangus bulls checking bottoms. I can't wait until all this folds out more!

 

[katrina]

Nice, nice, nice....Your bull is very nice and I really like that baldy calf....Good to see some green....

 

[gcreekrch]

Gosh! How do you deal with all that snow? :lol: :lol:

 

[dakotasky]

I like your drive RA and how you are set on building something, it gives me motivation to press on with my own ambitions. Keep it up and good luck.

 

[Hayguy]

are you trying to keep those wild cows in :wink: or something else out,6 wires and a hot wire, nice fence

 

[Nicky]

Great pictures as usual! Glad to see you have some help fencing, always makes it easier I was a little disappointed though...no captions to the pictures, and no pigs, goats or chickens.

Your green grass is beautiful, and your calves are looking great.

 

[leanin' H]

I'd like to compliment you on all your nice cattle, good fences and great management practices. I'd also like to invite myself down to hunt turkeys. Things look great thanks to the rain RA! Green for miles and miles! Wow!

 

[RSL]

Nice!

 

[R A]

Nice, nice, nice....Your bull is very nice and I really like that baldy calf....Good to see some green....

Thank you!

Gosh! How do you deal with all that snow? :lol: :lol:

Yeah, Missouri, it is a frozen hostle wasteland.....there is much work to be done....if we want to survive the elements. After boring a whole through the ice....to find food, my good friend Nantook and I, usually build an igloo.....to protect ourselves......lol.. ....I came across a stand up comedy video of Jim Carrey on youtube the other night...talking about how he hates to tell americans he is from Canada because we all just think it is just bitter cold all year long up there....which going by your weather reports, doesn't really help that thinking any... :wink: That is where that first part came from...I changed the words slightly. I thought of you Canadians on here right when he started talking about it.

Pretty pityful excuse for a snow storm, huh? That right there is as deep as it ever got last winter. You probably dust that much off your tractor on the morning of the 4th of july up there. :wink: I didn't have to shovel a single flake of snow last year.

 

[R A]

I like your drive RA and how you are set on building something, it gives me motivation to press on with my own ambitions. Keep it up and good luck.

Thanks! It's out there, lets go get it! Good luck to you also!

are you trying to keep those wild cows in :wink: or something else out,6 wires and a hot wire, nice fence

Again, ya gotta do what ya gotta do when you have wild stock! That's cross fence that I built. I'm doing all my cross fencing that exact way. My perimeter fence is 5 wires with hot wire, hot wire 4 feet from the fences on sides that cattle are on the other side. I haven't had to mess with any perimeter fence yet, but I guess will put it in like the cross fencing...I like me a six wire fence. I did an 8 wire one by the house and it looked wierd to me...lol....so I changed it.

 

[Hayguy]

a cross fence????? :???: you've got to be kidding :lol: :lol: I guess your getting ready to start your own zoo or game farm. i run two 17 gauge hot wires with a grounded centre wire between for perimeter,posts are 15 paces apart. cross fences consist of a single wire on 4 ft re-bar posts with adjustable insulators,pounded in a foot in the summer and not near as far in the frozen ground of winter. have never had any great escapes YET

but then my cattle probably aren't as wild as your's :wink:

 

[R A]

Great pictures as usual! Glad to see you have some help fencing, always makes it easier I was a little disappointed though...no captions to the pictures, and no pigs, goats or chickens.

Your green grass is beautiful, and your calves are looking great.

Thanks!


...and I know you're jokin, but....

Jax, my billy, was pretty wild when I got him...now I just let him run free during the day. He's as tame as any dog now. He does hot laps around my stock trailer and then gets to bouncing like a mule deer and I just roll....lol.

Doe goats bighorn sheepin' it up... Man, they get to doing this and running all over and jumping all over and I get laughing at this also!!! I read the other day from some old type sayin' stuff...that when heading out on a quest, it is good luck to meat a goat.....well I meet 4 of the happiest to see me goats in the world every time I head out on my quests here and I think it is bringing me good luck!

Gracie and Sage in their new for now pen.

I took them with to go get some wire out in a pasture I had rolled up from taking down an electric fence.

Made them a new pen. I'm going to build them their own shed and kick butt realistic rock formation playground.

I bought Bacon for freezer meat, but.....stayed tuned for 1600 pet pig pics... I like having him around. He loves to see me also everytime I go out there. I've moved him to the 2nd garden spot and he is doing a great job of eating what is left and roughing up earth.

My chicks are growing like weeds! I wonder if this hen that hatched these will go broody again? I hope she does!

Bonus hummingbird pics...I'm scared I've never had more than 3 or 4 tops at one time....I start making my own nectar and this started happening. I don't think it is my nectar, just happened to happen that way, but is funny.

 

[R A]

I'd like to compliment you on all your nice cattle, good fences and great management practices. I'd also like to invite myself down to hunt turkeys. Things look great thanks to the rain RA! Green for miles and miles! Wow!

Thanks! We could of shot one out the front door this afternoon. I snapped a shot, but it isn't very good. I always have cold pepsi in the fridge.

 

[R A]

Nice!

Thanks! Real nice cattle chute and handling system you are putting together!

 

[R A]

a cross fence????? :???: you've got to be kidding :lol: :lol: I guess your getting ready to start your own zoo or game farm. i run two 17 gauge hot wires with a grounded centre wire between for perimeter,posts are 15 paces apart. cross fences consist of a single wire on 4 ft re-bar posts with adjustable insulators,pounded in a foot in the summer and not near as far in the frozen ground of winter. have never had any great escapes YET

but then my cattle probably aren't as wild as your's :wink:

lol...quit making fun of me, hayguy...I cry easy..

It's part of my plan, man. Give a few years here and I'll explain or show what's up in pictures. I'll also say I wouldn't own a cow that won't stay in a single wire fence that isn't turned on.