We would have loved to have you there in person, but here are a few pictures that I took after most everyone left.
This is the place that we rent. The cows summer here and then they will come home after calves are weaned and we have either corn stalks available to graze or the snow is too deep for them to graze. The nice summer rains made things look very nice although it sure has dried up the past week.
A bred heifer. We penned her with her mother and her grandmother and a sister who where nursing their calves. We weighed cows and calf on Monday. Her 2 year old sister wieghed 1170 with a 556 lb March bull calf at side and her 4 year old mother weighed 1140lbs with a 520 April 5 bull calf at side.
Her grandmother is pictured right and her sister has her calf nursing.
More of the same cow family
An overview of some of the display pens. Back and to the left were more pens
Another overview of a few of the display pens
Another pair with a may bull calf. Probably not the best angle on this cow for a picture.
Another bred heifer that I picture on here before. She is 0822 out of my 0232 bull. She was displayed with her mother and maternal sister who were both nursing calves. I have posted pictures of her as a calf.
Another pair who was displayed with her maternal sister and her calf. Calf is by 0232. Two yearling bulls were out of this cow family on display too.
A overview of the rest of the cows. We had planned on sorting the commercial cows out so people could go through them easier, but sorting pairs took us longer than planned and we ran short of time so we kept them all in. Several people looked through them.
Overall it was a very good day. Busy day, but I enjoyed what we were doing. Met a lot of good people from all over the country that I would never have normally met. I think about 140 people came to the place.
I had a friend that took some pictures too and once I get them, I will share them too.
Thanks for looking
Brian
