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Fall Fotos or......Slush and Scrubs

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gcreekrch

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A few pictures from the mountain top...........

The leaves turned colour a couple of weeks ago, this was taken Sept 19
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Got the oats and pea silage baled and wrapped on Sept 23
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What we woke up to this morning. Yuk
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Went through the cows that have come home to see who is missing this afternoon. The gates to the meadows have been open for about ten days, about 2/3's in, time to saddle up.
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The calf on the right was born May 2nd
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A couple of early April calves and their moms, for the most part this is the best set of calves we've raised. They should tip the scales as yearlings.
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There are a bunch of wild/feral horses east of us, this mare came over the mountain and adopted our cows. We'll see if the corrals are high enough in a couple of weeks.
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Cows and calves enjoying the sun, I wore my winter duds today.
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This is the biggest calf I've seen come home so far this fall, he was born April 3rd.
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PureCountry said:
Great calves, great cows and beautiful country. Thanks for sharing.

Are the wildies all Indian ponies from a res?
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Yes, most of them are descended from Indian horses, although there is a group of whities/old hippies that are trying to say that they are remnants of the horses Cortez brought over. In a sense they are right but the horses are so far removed that the issue is more than a little far fetched.
The horse issue in the Chilcotin is very serious as there are now over 1500 of them competing for grass with cattle and some ranchers east of us have had their stocking rates reduced because of them. Native Rights you know. :roll:
 
mytfarms said:
Man, they look good enough to sell! :wink: REAL nice set of calves. Hope they bring good money for ya.
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We are keeping them for yearlings, unless the financial situation gets a lot worse I see no point in selling 95 cent calves when 950 wt yearlings are bringing the same money and my cost of gain is 80 cents. Maybe Sandhusker will have some input on this. Anyway next year hindsight will be 20/20.
 
Mrs.Greg said:
Good looking cattle....Beautiful scenery....HATE the snow pic.... :P
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You had to be here to 'appreciate' :roll: the snow. It made for a lot of slop yesterday afternoon. It froze hard last night and made it pretty easy for 2 hay trucks to make it in and out at 5 this morning. 2 loads left to come, all this hay from Vanderhoof needs is salad dressing. :D
 
gcreekrch said:
mytfarms said:
Man, they look good enough to sell! :wink: REAL nice set of calves. Hope they bring good money for ya.
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We are keeping them for yearlings, unless the financial situation gets a lot worse I see no point in selling 95 cent calves when 950 wt yearlings are bringing the same money and my cost of gain is 80 cents. Maybe Sandhusker will have some input on this. Anyway next year hindsight will be 20/20.
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I'm sure I don't need to tell you this, but the biggest reason for the spread is the cost of gain that feeders have. It is cheaper for them to buy the weight than to put it on themselves. That spread will probably hold true as long as grain prices are high. What you really need is a crystal ball that tells you what those grain prices will be. Mine isn't working!
 
Good looking cattle & country. :)

Your Oat & Pea silage bales reminded me of this YouTube video I saw, it's a baler and a wrapper on the same unit. I'm sure I don't know who could afford such a thing but it is a cool machine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6owJSl_IEh8

The video is only 40 seconds long, so it doesn't take all day to load.
 
Well, BMR told me to ask lots of questions and here we go. I have to know what the advantages of wrapping bales in plastic is. I know it helps keep out moisture, but can you wrap bales as soon as the hay is cut or does it have to dry? Also, do you feed it as silage or just like regular round bales?
 
Go to www.mchale.net ours is the 991B model wrapper. We only stop for actual rain or ground that is too soft to get on. The haylage from our wild meadows tested 10.8 acual protein and 70% TDN last year. It is costly to wrap bales but black hay is more expensive.
And no, we don't wrap dry hay although it would probably save 10 to 15% loss due to weather. Just not enough time for the two on this crew.
 
Your calves look great! It still amazes me that mountain cows will come home on their own once the weather changes...Aint mother nature smart>?llol Our cows are kind of like that, when we finally round em up,,once we get on our own land, we just open gates all the way home and by the next day,,majority of them are standing at the fence wanting hay..lol


Another ? If you do get those wild horses in the correl, what do you do with them then...? Thanks for the photo's
 
Jassy said:
Your calves look great! It still amazes me that mountain cows will come home on their own once the weather changes...Aint mother nature smart>?llol Our cows are kind of like that, when we finally round em up,,once we get on our own land, we just open gates all the way home and by the next day,,majority of them are standing at the fence wanting hay..lol


Another ? If you do get those wild horses in the correl, what do you do with them then...? Thanks for the photo's
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Thanks Jassy.
There is only one mare with the cattle, she is big enough to make a saddle horse out of but that depends on if she wants to be one. She sure floats at a long-trot. Those wild shi@@ers can sure move in the bush once you get them broke. She definately doesn't want to leave the herd on her own, that may change when the fences start closing in.
 

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