elwapo
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Hi all. We have got our website updated with new pictures of this years private treaty bulls for sale.
http://www.watsoncattle.ca/listings.php?ltype=1
http://www.watsoncattle.ca/listings.php?ltype=1
elwapo said:Did I say I wasnt calving yet....oops. I had a cow calve in may last year (bred to a neighbours bull after I pulled mine), she went in the cull pasture and i threw a bull in early. I didnt get my cows home from pasture until two weeks ago, so i have not sold the culls yet. Be darned if the old gal didnt calve yesterday!
Soapweed said:elwapo said:Did I say I wasnt calving yet....oops. I had a cow calve in may last year (bred to a neighbours bull after I pulled mine), she went in the cull pasture and i threw a bull in early. I didnt get my cows home from pasture until two weeks ago, so i have not sold the culls yet. Be darned if the old gal didnt calve yesterday!
Back in the spring of 1980 when Peach and I were starting out, fifteen calves were born after our branding day which was the last Saturday in April. Twelve of those fifteen cows calved in the first third of our cows the following year. After seeing that evidence, I've never culled a cow for being a late calver. Very often they won't be again.
Justin said:Soapweed said:elwapo said:Did I say I wasnt calving yet....oops. I had a cow calve in may last year (bred to a neighbours bull after I pulled mine), she went in the cull pasture and i threw a bull in early. I didnt get my cows home from pasture until two weeks ago, so i have not sold the culls yet. Be darned if the old gal didnt calve yesterday!
Back in the spring of 1980 when Peach and I were starting out, fifteen calves were born after our branding day which was the last Saturday in April. Twelve of those fifteen cows calved in the first third of our cows the following year. After seeing that evidence, I've never culled a cow for being a late calver. Very often they won't be again.
i agree with you, Soapweed. i've never culled late calvers for that very reason, plus there is demand for those lighter calves as we get closer to spring.
katrina said:Justin said:Soapweed said:Back in the spring of 1980 when Peach and I were starting out, fifteen calves were born after our branding day which was the last Saturday in April. Twelve of those fifteen cows calved in the first third of our cows the following year. After seeing that evidence, I've never culled a cow for being a late calver. Very often they won't be again.
i agree with you, Soapweed. i've never culled late calvers for that very reason, plus there is demand for those lighter calves as we get closer to spring.
We don't either... But at the ABS meeting last monday, the big wigs were all pushing for first cycle calving and had a graph to prove that money was better.. pounds across the scale.. I know they had a product to sell..