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pictures....5/24/10

R A

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2 yr old brahman heifer
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2 yr old registered L1 horned hereford
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I can't beleive I can pet him already with how he acted when he first came.
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Hauling hay...I would use my tractor, but it doesn't exist.... :)
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Some scattered cows
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Boomer helping me pop electric fence insulators on.
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End of the day...I took this one a few evenings ago.
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garn

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leanin' H said:
Could ya ship us some of that grass about August? :D Wow. The green almost hurts my eyes. That last picture is a dandy!

trees have been leafed out around here for close to 5 weeks now a good 2-3 weeks ahead of schedule, first part of April was way warmer than normal.

R A, how does those brahman's handle the cold of the winter months?
 

R A

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leanin' H---- one order of green grass to be shipped around August is on the books :D

garn---- they handle the cold just fine. I make sure they can get in some trees in a valley or on the backside of a hill. Mine have a very established pecking order that they inforce on a daily basis...especially when it comes to eating, so I just have to feed hay in a way that the ones on the bottom of it get their fill too. I haven't had any problems.
 

R A

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gcreekrch---Thank you! I had to tie a rein up in that picture so the silly sucker would hold his head up. He is real hungry at that time of day. Every time I would walk away, down went the head. :)
 

garn

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R A said:
garn---- they handle the cold just fine. I make sure they can get in some trees in a valley or on the backside of a hill. Mine have a very established pecking order that they inforce on a daily basis...especially when it comes to eating, so I just have to feed hay in a way that the ones on the bottom of it get their fill too. I haven't had any problems.

Thanks for the answer, I always envisioned the brahman breed has more of a warm weather breed and not so much a breed you would find in this part of the country.
 

R A

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garn---- oh I bet they wished I would send them south for the winter :D , but they do just fine like I said. The way they handle this humidity and heat we get is amazing.... my black cows are already in the ponds.... it doesn't even phaze my brahmans. What I really like about them is I never have troubles with them...never on anything. I have had my black beef cows 3 months and I have had a whole huge list of stuff happen already. :D
 

MO_cows

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I'm a sucker for sunsets anyway, but that photo of yours is one of the best I have ever seen. You should shop it around in your "spare time", many publications will pay for cover shots.

Looks like you are on a nice piece of land. Good grazing, big shade trees, pond, etc. Pretty much bovine heaven this time of year. :lol:
 

Faster horses

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Hey, you turned that great shot into your avatar!!! Awesome!

That's a nice bay horse...thought so the first time you posted
a picture of him, and I still think so!

I know that in Missouri some folks have to top dress lime
or something like that on their grass. Do you have to do that,
and do you know why it is done?
 

R A

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Justin---Thank you! Yep, it was warm real early here, then cooled off, but I think summer is here now.

Dylan---- Thanks! I'm waiting for the sky to do that again. Got some other things I am going to try on that hill again.

MO_cows---- Thank you!...I like sunsets too. I worked night shift in a factory right out of high school to get my place going I had at the time..... had to watch the sun set through bars every night.... :) I stop to watch the sun go down every night since now that I am free of that.

If selling pictures would make it to where I didn't have to ride outside horses.... I'd be a picture selling fool :D Might have to look into that :D

Faster Horses---- Thanks!....I have two bay geldings that look almost identical that I have put on here. Skip and Boomer. Skip's a lot bigger. I just got Skip...he has lost a lot of weight since I have got him though. :D....been baby'd all his life...never rode.

I'm a bad one to ask on fertilizer. :) I have never had a dime I could spend on it. Never have fertilized. I just unrole big bales to feed on the bad spots...the good bales....the bales that might have weeds go on a certain spot. That has worked great. I know I have heard a lot of good things about lime....just have no idea what it does????????...changes ph???? good for grass, bad for weeds???? I have been very bad about only tryin to raise a bull that bucks and not caring about anything else...land,water,etc.. That is all changing now.
 

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