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Chores Today (pics)

randiliana

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Well, pics I took during chores anyways. We got another 6" of snow yesterday, makes getting around kinda interesting. But I never quite got stuck thank goodness. They were are work out today, snow was deep, strings froze down, ice was thick. Cow's feedbunk was pretty empty so I had to do a bit of forking, calve's feedbunk was full.... of snow so I had to do a lot of shovelling. Waterer was frozen, but I did get it going. And it was cold, cold, cold, around -20 C. My toes were the coldest I've ever had them, my one big toe just about made me cry when I finally got in and could warm them up!!

Well, here's the photos

This bunch is bulls, horses, late and/or dry cows and a few cows we bought right at the end of December.
Feel quite free to critique whatever you want.

Snow was deep getting to them, but they are sharing well.
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A Black bull, born in 2007
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A Hereford bull, born in 2005
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Some of the cow's we bought. 4 of the 6 are purebred Shorthorn, sold as commercials, but I looked their pedigrees and such up on the internet. They should be some pretty good cows. Some were originally sold through the Shorthorn sale at Agribition. We know the people who sold them.

Mama cow, turns out that 2 of the 5 others we bought are her daughters. She is a purebred Shorthrn

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Daughter, also purebred Shorthorn.
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Together
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Hereford x Shorthorn cow
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burnt

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Yup your starting to buck a little snow there. We've barely got 6" here, pretty unusual.

That '05 bull is one heck of an animal. He could work here anytime.
 

randiliana

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burnt said:
Yup your starting to buck a little snow there. We've barely got 6" here, pretty unusual.

That '05 bull is one heck of an animal. He could work here anytime.

Well, TY, we really like him too, so you can't have him :wink: . He's left us some darn good looking replacements, and some really awesome steer calves too. His first daughters will calve this year, so it will be interesting to see how they do.

He was our pick of the bulls the year we bought him, not often that happens those bulls usually sell in the $10000 range, just a little out of our price range :lol:

We've had some lameness issues with him though, but he seems to stay sound during breeding season, so far anyways. Last year he had an abcess in one back leg, and this year he is walking strangely, lifting his leg way up when he walks, kinda like an old swing bag cow. Not really lame, but not sound either. At the moment he's good though, so maybe he's over whatever was bothering him.
 

gcreekrch

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per said:
I kinda like both of those bulls.


I do too. :wink:

It will never cease to amaze me how tough those prairie cattle are. Mine would be looking for anywhere out of the wind. (What you flatlanders would call a light breeze is a wind here.)
 

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