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Northern Rancher

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I just got off the phone with Fraser's and my Lad 20P bull got hit by lightning this weekend. I've never had a year where more animals found a way to shrug their mortal coil. I guess I'm lucky we have a large bank of semen at Genex. Lord knows I got enough sorry SOB's walking around could of got hit instead of him.
 
That really bites! :cry: Telling you that I've been there doesn't help a bit either. It sure does cook the meat though. :(
 
Sorry about your bad luck. We recently had a couple cows die presumably of lead poisoning, I did find a small piece of an old battery in some trees they were running in, so....that's something else to watch out for.
 
Northern Rancher said:
I just got off the phone with Fraser's and my Lad 20P bull got hit by lightning this weekend. I've never had a year where more animals found a way to shrug their mortal coil. I guess I'm lucky we have a large bank of semen at Genex. Lord knows I got enough sorry SOB's walking around could of got hit instead of him.
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Too bad,lightning is something that always worries me with animals out in the fields.
 
That's a setback. Sorry about your luck. Sometimes it seems as if it weren't for bad luck a guy guy wouldn't have any luck at all. Although right now I would be almost happy to have a bull struck down if rain was included in the deal.
 
The semen in the tank is the only insurance I ever carry. We still haven't had any rain this spring-I'm missing those two loads of cows I sold less and less as the days go by.
 
Northern Rancher said:
The semen in the tank is the only insurance I ever carry. We still haven't had any rain this spring-I'm missing those two loads of cows I sold less and less as the days go by.
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WOW...we insured the live animals also.



It's been raining here every PM.

Should have some dry days this week....so the 2nd cutting of hay is about to commence.
 
Mrs.Greg said:
Kola....most times the insurance is higher then the risk.
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I've carried insurance on my live animals for about 30 years....well worth the money spent in my eyes.


I can't complain about the costs at all.


A few hundred spent to protect a few thousand...I can and will do that for sure.
 
One go around trying to collect on bull insurance sours you pretty quick-Hartford pays up promptly on commercial cattle but the purveyors of purebred bull insurance up here aren't quite so handy at it. They do manage to invoice you lickety split if you owe them money. I'd rather have the genetics preserved in my A'I tank than a cheque anyways.
 
Northern Rancher said:
One go around trying to collect on bull insurance sours you pretty quick-Hartford pays up promptly on commercial cattle but the purveyors of purebred bull insurance up here aren't quite so handy at it. They do manage to invoice you lickety split if you owe them money. I'd rather have the genetics preserved in my A'I tank than a cheque anyways.
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I must be the lucky duck then as I've never had ANY problems collecting insurance when a bull or cow or horse died or was killed.

With all the feed, collection fees, hauling, maintenance expense I have in the critters....insurance is a must have for me.

Too bad about the bull. It seems the good ones always get whacked...and the sorry ones live forever!!
 
Most times it's just as thrifty to buy a couple extra bulls for guys who run commercial cows. If you lost a bull on day one of breeding season up here you'd never get paid out in time to replace them in time.
 
Harding & Harding charges 6% per annum (of established price) to insure a stud bull against death. They pay pretty quick too. 2-3 weeks.

Sorry for the loss..........

Maybe he'll have a son better than him? The good ones usually do.

Death can sometimes raise the price of semen..............
 
Sorry about the loss NR-- As I've told a couple of these bull breeders- that have often in the past just ran their bulls thru the auction and canned them out in June if they haven't sold them, to keep a few around thru July or so if they can, as I'm always getting calls or hearing about folks scrambling for a bull or two in June or July because theirs got hit by lightning, broke a leg, or a broken or sored up tool...
 
Northern Rancher said:
I just got off the phone with Fraser's and my Lad 20P bull got hit by lightning this weekend. I've never had a year where more animals found a way to shrug their mortal coil. I guess I'm lucky we have a large bank of semen at Genex. Lord knows I got enough sorry SOB's walking around could of got hit instead of him.
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I'm sorry to hear about your loss :( . Look on the bright side, at least you weren't the cause of your loss, like I was to the five cows that died here a few weeks ago :roll: . The five bum heifer calves did average $300 though :-) .
 
Northern Rancher said:
I just got off the phone with Fraser's and my Lad 20P bull got hit by lightning this weekend. I've never had a year where more animals found a way to shrug their mortal coil. I guess I'm lucky we have a large bank of semen at Genex. Lord knows I got enough sorry SOB's walking around could of got hit instead of him.
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That's a bummer :cry: Glad you have semen, hope you can get dozens of good bulls out of him. I don't know what else to say :cry:
 
Northern Rancher said:
I just got off the phone with Fraser's and my Lad 20P bull got hit by lightning this weekend. I've never had a year where more animals found a way to shrug their mortal coil. I guess I'm lucky we have a large bank of semen at Genex. Lord knows I got enough sorry SOB's walking around could of got hit instead of him.
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Sorry to hear about your bull.

That reminds me that if and I say IF we start to get any T-storms I have to make sure the cow and BULLs are not gathered around the west tank. Installed a new 3' x5' tank there five years ago and got it all plumbed in. For some reason there is a spot about 18 foot out from the SW corner of the tank that attracts lightning. I think the soil has a strong amout of irom oxide there. I have dug down about six foot and found nothing at the time. That exact spot has clamed 1 real good bull and 3 cows in the last 5 years. if it wasn't so hard to get reprmitted (BLM) I would move the tank. But I am hoping that the odds will go the other wasy from now on. :roll:

But enough of me :D Sorry about your bull though. :)
 

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