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HAY FIELDS ARE LOOKIN FAIR

HAY MAKER

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Amazing what will happen when the weather cooperates



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couple heifers I got from elmo,he swears they will improve my black cattle,that one looks like she has an attitude bout like him...........good luck
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Good lookin green stuff Haymaker. So glad ya got rain when ya did. And hopin ya git a lil more here and there where and when its needed.

Them's some nice lookin brangus heifers.......even if that one does have ole elmo's attitude.....I'd take em.
 

HAY MAKER

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Mike said:
that one looks like she has an attitude bout like him.

You mean full of p*** and vinegar? :lol:

Your Sudan Sorghum hybrid looks good. Do you cut it before it heads out?

Yes I try and cut it before it heads,been lots of years around here that it would be 6 inches and head,just too dry,and yes that pretty much describes the ole coot................good luck
 

HAY MAKER

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
Good lookin green stuff Haymaker. So glad ya got rain when ya did. And hopin ya git a lil more here and there where and when its needed.

Them's some nice lookin brangus heifers.......even if that one does have ole elmo's attitude.....I'd take em.

Yes I thought they looked fair,some he dealed on in Uvalde,ole coot aint said what he wanted for them yet,but was sortin and brandin a few replacements yesterday and decided to try em..............good luck
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Sunday afternoon will be interestin around here, Got Lil Lilly's 5 hiefers for her Pen of 3 Commercials to run in the chute and clip their heads. Somethin we've never done before. I'm sure there'll be lots of bellerin n snot slingin goin on. This group is no where near like the ones she raised last year. They were all calm and some petable. This bunch is totally different, and she's spent more time with these than she did those last year. Strange how that works. They don't hafta be halter broke, so this is gonna be an experience gettin em in the head gate and turnin on a pair of them big ole clippers. I"m just glad it's just their heads, n not their whole bodies. It's not required that you trim their heads, but most of the pens have theirs done. Just makes em look nice and cleaned up. Since she's got a couple that really have "do's" on the top of their head we're gonna give it a go. LOL They look alot like those two you got there, but they are weighin in at about 1000 lbs now I'd say. Hafta wait n see what kinda gain she got when we take em into the fair, they weigh in the same day they go into pens at the fair grounds. They are penned (in a small pasture) for 5 months and fed and bred. Sure would like to just keep em...they are lookin good.
 

Angus Cattle Shower

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Faster horses said:
Lilly, put a halter on them and tie their head around to trim them.

But I bet you knew that already. :wink:

And do it ni the head gate or squeeze chute-they will flip the trimming chutes over-been there, done that. lol. Not to me but it happened at the regional show. lol. it was kinda scary tho. lol.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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We don't own a trimming chute. them thangs just look way too flimsy to do anything in, with a critter thats not halter broke. The ag mech teacher offered his, but I declined, and told him naw..we'll just put em in the squeeze chute and catch em in the head gate, put the bars on to keep em from raisin or lowerin their heads, and then use the nose pliers on em. If that don't work, then they'll get the halter and tied to the side.
Still won't matter..someone (most likely me) will end up with snot on em. There will be pictures to share I'm sure, since we hafta take pictures to put in record book of everything she does with them. LOL I'm just NOT lookin forward to this job. Trimmin goats is a job in itself..this is gonna be an experience LOL
 

Angus Cattle Shower

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It is-I do all of the clipping and trimming in the headgate, and when i start to groom them, but after that, I can susally just tie them up and purty them up. lol. But in the shows I go to you have to use a trimming chute so I always make sure that they arwe ready for that, or i will just tie them to a pole or fence and groom them that way.
 

TXTibbs

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
Sunday afternoon will be interestin around here, Got Lil Lilly's 5 hiefers for her Pen of 3 Commercials to run in the chute and clip their heads. Somethin we've never done before. I'm sure there'll be lots of bellerin n snot slingin goin on. This group is no where near like the ones she raised last year. They were all calm and some petable. This bunch is totally different, and she's spent more time with these than she did those last year. Strange how that works. They don't hafta be halter broke, so this is gonna be an experience gettin em in the head gate and turnin on a pair of them big ole clippers. I"m just glad it's just their heads, n not their whole bodies. It's not required that you trim their heads, but most of the pens have theirs done. Just makes em look nice and cleaned up. Since she's got a couple that really have "do's" on the top of their head we're gonna give it a go. LOL They look alot like those two you got there, but they are weighin in at about 1000 lbs now I'd say. Hafta wait n see what kinda gain she got when we take em into the fair, they weigh in the same day they go into pens at the fair grounds. They are penned (in a small pasture) for 5 months and fed and bred. Sure would like to just keep em...they are lookin good.


You mean lil Jersy don't have them halter broke and eating out of her hand yet? lol :lol:
 

HAY MAKER

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
We don't own a trimming chute. them thangs just look way too flimsy to do anything in, with a critter thats not halter broke. The ag mech teacher offered his, but I declined, and told him naw..we'll just put em in the squeeze chute and catch em in the head gate, put the bars on to keep em from raisin or lowerin their heads, and then use the nose pliers on em. If that don't work, then they'll get the halter and tied to the side.
Still won't matter..someone (most likely me) will end up with snot on em. There will be pictures to share I'm sure, since we hafta take pictures to put in record book of everything she does with them. LOL I'm just NOT lookin forward to this job. Trimmin goats is a job in itself..this is gonna be an experience LOL

Can't say as I ever gave a heifer a hair cut,but sounds ta me like you will do alright ,gotta heavy chute with a bar & chains,you get that nose lead on em they will behave,probably right about the snot part....................good luck
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Tibbs,

They'll eat out of her hand. Most of the time. But since they are in the Commercial Division they don't hafta be halter broke.....thank goodness.....can ya just see her lil bitty butt out there gettin drug around by them big ole heifers?????
 

Angus Cattle Shower

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
Tibbs,

They'll eat out of her hand. Most of the time. But since they are in the Commercial Division they don't hafta be halter broke.....thank goodness.....can ya just see her lil bitty butt out there gettin drug around by them big ole heifers?????

Don't underestimate the younger and smaller ones. My brother had his steer halterbroke, leading and setting up by the time I was still halterbreaking, and all I did was help tie him up. lol. It may seem unordinary, but I think that the animals responded better to the smaller people, and not the bigger ones-not saying it is that way all the time, just what has happened. lol.
 

Angus Breeder

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Lilly, every year we will shear out the entire cow hers (350 hd), head and entire body. Here is what the shearing crew does, it takes them about 5 minutes a head. Take a halter and cinch it down as tight as you can in your hans then put it in there mouth, make sure that it lays under their tounge and then pull it around and tie it off. That way you don't have any part of the halter to dodge with the clippers. Sometimes the goofiest heifers are the ones that move the least in the chute, fear kind of lock them up a little. Good Luck
 

Angus Breeder

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From feeding programs to general apperance of the cow herd we strive to keep the whole herd looking "sale ready" for visitors that come tour the herd. However, the biggest reason to shear the herd in the spring is to help lower the temprature through the breeding season, and help those fall calving cows shed off a little quicker than mother nature intended.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Where are you located Angus Breeder? I'm guessin somewhere it is actually cold in the winter time. LOL

Our cattle don't hafta put on much hair in the winter, so it doesn't take long for em to slick up in the spring. The few herefords we have get more hair than any of the rest. And takes them a lil longer to get slick. I understand now if your a registered operation selling stock to buyers, wantin to keep em perdied up. We're a commercial operation, so never gave it much thought.
 

Angus Breeder

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We are located in southern Missouri. The average low in the winter is proably 20. No longer than it takes to shear one out it is a pretty beneficial thing for the animal, especially those spring calvers. With fescue being our main forage, we must do something to deal with the endophyte which will elevate the cows body temp. When you are AI'n everything we cannot afford for cows to come through the chute with a temp of 103
 

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