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Triple_S

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Been watching these boards for a few years now so I thought I'd join and introduce myself. My family has always raised cattle. Grandfather and Father built up a pretty large herd of Herford's in the 70's and 80's. Fences were in bad shape and when Hurricane Hugo centered us in '89 it destroyed all the fences that were left. By the end of the year we had caught all of them and were out of the cattle business. 8 years later, I was a freshman in high school when i decided to start rebuilding fences. Worked after school and weekends fixing fence. Pastures didn't need much work, they had been kept up pretty well. Bought 3 steers, sold them. Bought 8 Heifers, sold them. Bought 12 heifers, kept them. That was the start of my herd. Since then, my father has gone in halves with me. We've built some new pastures, raised and bought some cattle, and have gotten our family back in the cattle business. We run angus based commercial cattle, bred to angus and balancer bulls. Nothing fancy, just cows that have calves.

Here's some pics from around the farm. Before you say anything, this has been the WETTEST winter in over 30 years. The mud is awful (ground here doesn't freeze) and some parts of the pastures look like swamps. Just something we have to deal with. I reckon its part of His plan.

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Grass has held on well on the hills
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Cows and calves behind the barn
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Ditches are running hard
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Obviously not concerned about privacy
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Replacements hiding in the woods
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There's one that came out for a photo
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No horses here, but I do have a pony like Soapweed. Told you it was wet!
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Cows have just started calving. Most will freshen in March.
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Cows are eating about 5 lbs. of hay. They get the rest from grass. We usually roll it out but its too wet to cross the pastures right now.
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This is for all you deep south boys and girls. My one and only Brangus cow. Ugly as sin (not because she's Brangus, just this one in particular), terrible bag (don't keep anything from her), raises a big calf every year, and mean as a snake. Her calf is never gets tagged. There will be a lot of dogs and coyotes rejoicing when this old cow dies, and thats the reason she stays.
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Some heifers that are expecting their first calf soon
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A two year old Balancer bull enjoying his time off. Rye grass is starting to come on pretty good
 
welcome TS , gee water , trees , blacks cows what more could a fella want , it ill dry up soon enough , some guys on here could only wish for water . we have to pump are's , nice look'in place
 
Thanks for the pictures. Your pastures look like ours here in NE TX. I haven't worn leather boots since last Oct. It's been the nastiest, wettest, coldest winter I can remember. And I decided to calve in Feb. this year.
That's quite a fence along the road. Good luck and thanks.

P.S. I used to work for a Company based in Greensboro and I used to get in there quite often. NC is a beautiful State.
 
Good pics SSS. Like Little bow wet pastures that can't be driven across are fairly rare here. Your cattle look good and from what we could see that bull is outstanding (in his field :-) ). Could use a few fences like that here as well.
 
How far do you live from the ocean? Do you farm any crops? It's always cool to see new country without having to drive for 2 days. My wife always crabs at me when we are driving in new country. I spend more time looking than driving.
 
Big Swede
When the wife tells you to quick looking and drive pull over and let her drive that way you are free to look all you want.
 
Yall got some good dirt up there. I bet the deer huntin good to. My dads family came from south carolina and homesteded the seaboard islands like edisto. They ran cattle and grew cotton and were nown as the see island clan back before the war between the states. Our bunch wound up in fla and crossed with the indians that would not walk the trail of tears. Were just a bunch of lowbred, flatwoods crackers now. Lol. Sure looks like u got it goin on. Your young, got a good start on makein it and many projects, just waitin. I know how bad the storms hit yall. The loss of timber was unreal. Best of luck to ya. I'm not to far away. Get a hold of me if u need any info on drainage. I've got some experance with it but I'm sure yall do to.
 
Big Swede Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 8:42 am Post subject:

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How far do you live from the ocean? Do you farm any crops? It's always cool to see new country without having to drive for 2 days. My wife always crabs at me when we are driving in new country. I spend more time looking than driving.


We're about 150 miles from the beach. Go down there once a year with the wife and son. I ain't much of a beach bum though. Something about sitting in the hot sun, burned to a crisp, sweating, with sand in every crack on my body ain't my idea of relaxing. We can be in the mountains in the same amount of time, and i prefer that 10 to 1.
We lease out all of our crop land. I'll do some early soybeans behing oat hay to build up organic matter on the hay fields but thats about it. My cousins do all the farming. Corn, wheat, and soybeans is all they do but you can find some cotton around and a little farther east you start seeing tobacco (gov't has about bought them all out though)
 
Clarencen Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 8:49 am Post subject:

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Enjoyed your pictures. Keep sending them. Mud, I always thought North Carolina had sandy soil. Just where you happen to be I guess.

We're just out of the sandy land. 20 miles south or east will put you right in bermuda grass country.
 
cowhunter Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:14 am Post subject:

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Yall got some good dirt up there. I bet the deer huntin good to.

We got the deer. Plenty of pine timber land combined with crop land gives us a huge deer population. Most farmers have to deal with pretty tough losses due to them. A good average buck around here will be in the 130-140 bc. Somebody will kill a 160 or so each year but thats out of the ordinary. Within the last couple years we've had to start dealing with hogs. Never thought that would be a problem here. Being from FL, I'm sure you know what a couple dozen hogs will do to a newly planted corn field.
 
Welcome SSS! :D You have a nice set up there. You could ship a bunch of that water this way come july and we'd sure appreciate it. Don't be a stranger and pack you camera with ya. Always fun to see how folks ranch. Thanks again! :D
 
Thanks for posting SSS - your pictures of wet cows, mud, the dripping wetness and ditches running full reminds me why I left Scotland. We used to get 6-7 months of the year like that. It's was just miserable - i'm glad to live where the sun shines now even if it's too cold and too dry sometimes :D
 

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