hangin tuff

[alacowman]

I see you haven't built your sunshades with fans and sprinklers yet Soap, don't you know cows need them to survive your summers? :wink:

No, and I probably won't. :wink:

Speaking of animal abuse, wouldn't it be considered just as abusive to get cattle too obese to perform to the best of their ability as it is to have them too thin? Correctness is such a relative term. Who are any of us to judge whether or not someone else is doing it "just right"? It is just as abusive to raise cattle in very hot muggy conditions as it is to raise them where blizzards and too much wind are regular occurances. To each their own. We don't need armchair quarterbacks telling each other how best to ranch. :roll:

Hmmmm...something tells me that #542 got a wee bit extra feed today!!!!

Who are any of us to ' judge'??....and this question comes from YOU?? :roll: :roll: :roll:

If you haven't noticed in the past few years....that's what happens here....DUH!!!!!

well if she did she deserved it. regardless

 

[Northern Rancher]

If you constantly pamper the weak you fail to appreciate the strong that goes for cowherds,hockey players and society in general.

 

[Turkey Track Bar]

If you constantly pamper the weak you fail to appreciate the strong that goes for cowherds,hockey players and society in general.

:tiphat: :clap: :tiphat: :clap:

Outstanding NR.

I am not for abusing/abandoning livestock, but when they are all appropriately fed, and you have a couple that are thinner, and a couple that are fatter, it is called individuality. Thank God we still have that in cattle or else we'd be raising chickens, turkeys, or amoeba.

Any herd of any size, that is well managed, will and should have a majority of their cows in "correct" condition, and a minority of those who are too fat and those that are thinner (and I don't mean emaciated either.)

Soap, I think you're doing fine job of managing your cowherd.

On the NM cows, those are the kind (or more correctly, their owner/caretaker is the kind) that give all of us a black-eye with the general public, who by the way still buy our product BEEF. The day we forget that, is the day we've worked ourselves straight outta a job.

Cheers---

TTB :wink:

 

[alacowman]

heck they may belong too some roper who dont care what they do too the beef side of the industry,,,

 

[Hooks]

I think I have a simple explanation for this whole management situation.................when the snow melts, look for empty Copenahgen cans.................................... :wink:

 

[kolanuraven]

I think I have a simple answer for this whole management situation.................when the snow melts, look for empty Copenahgen cans.................................... :wink:

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........................ :wink:

 

[tenbach79]

Soapweed I agree with you about the neighor thing. But what I dont like to see (and its hard to miss) is when the snow is flying and the wind is blowing 40 mph and its 15 degrees outside, dont you think those cows should be feed to help them throught the night. I beat you feed your cows when you know a storm is coming. And do you feed them the next morning either after the storm or still during it? Thats just being proactive.

Yes if you feed your cows 24-7 it is going to cost alot of money. The next thing is are you feeding bought hay or is it feed that you raised. If you go buy all your hay you got to make it last so the way you feed will be diffrent then the guy that raised all of his.

Right now I feed everyday, but I am on corn stalks right now and with all this wind that we have had I dont have much stalks left out in the field. I don't have a option not to feed I cant go to grass yet so I got to feed. I am not going to let my cows stand out in the corn field looking for something to eat when I have hay sitting in the hay yard. But my cows are not fat they are right in the perfect body condition. And just like your number 542 I have few cows that are alittle thinner then the rest but that just those cows, but they still have calves that are looking the same as the rest of the cows that are alittle bigger then them.