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Pictures taken January 2, 2007

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Soapweed

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Our heifer calves being wintered at a neighbor's place
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More of the same
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Another view
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Heifers bellied up to the bar
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Rob Cook of R & D Angus
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R & D Angus bulls
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These guys sell at auction in early April
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A nice guy and his nice bulls
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Meanwhile back at the ranch, coming three-year-old heifers expecting their second calf
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Arriving in force
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Wind from the west at sundown
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The day's last hurrah
 
Soapweed, it seems like most of your cattle are just my type. Lots of bone, capacity and depth. Mind telling me a little about where you get your bulls? I've been buying mine from a fellow over by Canton, Kansas that has a lot of Hoff genetics with a few other soggy type bloodlines thrown in. He has even been experimenting with some 1/4 simmental bulls lately. I feel like the angus (black) industry has really gotten watered down the last few years but there are still some really good ones up in your country. Any thoughts?
 
movin' on said:
Soapweed, it seems like most of your cattle are just my type. Lots of bone, capacity and depth. Mind telling me a little about where you get your bulls? I've been buying mine from a fellow over by Canton, Kansas that has a lot of Hoff genetics with a few other soggy type bloodlines thrown in. He has even been experimenting with some 1/4 simmental bulls lately. I feel like the angus (black) industry has really gotten watered down the last few years but there are still some really good ones up in your country. Any thoughts?
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I am not real particular about where bulls are purchased. Commercial bulls fill the need just as well as registered. I like to buy high quality bulls in quantity, for as cheap a price as can be negotiated. Usually we buy all yearling bulls in the spring, use them one season, and sell them in the fall. This past year, the bulls cost a little more than usual and the fall market was not real good, so I elected to keep them over for another year. A friend thirty miles away is wintering them, for the cost of $1.50 per bull per day. This is about as cheap as they could be wintered here at home, if hay was abundant. By wintering them away, we are saving hay for cows that will calve in the spring. It is nice not having the bulls around tearing up the furniture and getting into trouble.
 
Gotcha. Thanks for the reply. I wouldn't be at all opposed to using commercial bulls if I knew where to aquire good ones. Yes, $1.50 a day really is a good deal isn't it. Seems high at first, but it's not at all.
 
Good pics of good cattle. When I saw pics on the 2nd followed by pics on the 3rd, I was thinking we might see a snowstorm having moved in. That is what happened to us on this, the 5th. When you said the wind was west, I knew that would not be the case. If I recall right, it is an east wind that brings moisture to the sandhills. Windmill pics are always nice. I like the windbreak over the bunk. That looks like a good protection device.
 
Sandy said:
I was wondering Mr. Soapweed what kind of ration those good look'in heifer calves are on?
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These calves are getting silage, ground hay, 3 pounds per day of shelled corn, and about a half a pound per day of 50% liquid protein, which is mixed into the feed wagon.

Jassy said:
As good as your cattle pictures are Soapweed..you know me..I'm kinda partial to the windmill sunsets...so pretty..
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Glad you like the sunset and windmill pictures, Jassy. They are fun to take.
 

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