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randiliana

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Here is a whole bunch more photos of the cows out swath grazing. And some of the backgrounding calves we bought this fall...
A bit different looking than a couple weeks ago....
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A swath that they've dug out.
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Digging it up
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Cows were sunning themselves this morning
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3 cows we just bought,
5 year old. Guy sold her because she throws grey calves when bred black, apparently raises a darn good calf though...
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6 year olds, sold because they have sand cracks in their feet.
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Some of our rising 3 year olds... The Heifer's calves averaged 542 lbs @ adjusted 205 day weights. They did pretty good.
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A couple bred heifers
One we raised, I think she is going to get too big, and the only reason she is in the herd, is that she was lame both when we sold calves last fall and when we sold our yearlings this spring. She's bred now, so we'll see how she does, her mama is a decent enough cow.
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One we bought.
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A rising 12 year old cow. Not the top cow as far as raising a big calf, but one of those cows that just does her job, without you ever really noticing her...
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Some various cow pics
5 year old, Shorthorn x. The only cow on the place with horns.
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6 year old. Shorthorn x Angus
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6 year olds. Red Angus x (possibly Simm)
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6 year olds, BA x
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5 year olds, BA x HH
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4 year old, HH x Black cow
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8 year old, HH x BA/HH
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Some Shorthorn and high percentage Shorthorns
3 year old, 3/4 Shorthorn
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3 year old purebred Shorthorn
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4 year old
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per

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Thanks as well to you Randi. I always enjoy your posts because you show functional cattle doing what functional cattle do on minimal inputs in a tough environment. Good work.
 

leanin' H

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Looks like those sisters have done pretty well on those swaths. Cows are an amazing animal that adapt to many diverse habitats and ranching systems. Thanks!
 

Soapweed

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You are taking good care of your cattle, randiliana, even if you do it the easy way by making them work for a living. :wink:
 

Gomez

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Great Pics! Nice to see cows working for you and not you working to winter cows. I am interested in your approach. That is, how many acres do you give them at a time? What is your animal/acre grazing intensity? How long have you been swath grazing? Thank you
 

randiliana

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Thanks, everyone. We are pretty happy with how this is working so far. What they are on actually would have been baled up except it rained, and then we needed to get on to the barley that we needed to have combined.
 

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