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Short trip across the Province

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Took my daughter to a reception with the Lieutenant Governor in Edmonton
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Attended the Stock Growers Summer Meeting in Valleyview
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Rounded up cows in Longview
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Photo op with new gate
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Filing into position
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Hereford could be in the future. Still using all RA bulls for a while longer. These are an easy keeping tame bunch that don't require much intervention from me. Don't want to mess with that too much. lol
 
When you said across the province you didn't mean the short way. :shock: :-)

Friends of our moved from this country to near Valleyview 20 years ago. Sure doesn't seem that long. They might even have been at the meeting.
 
nice cows and I bet a good working holiday.
Those red AN/SM cows look like our cows through the 80s.
Pretty easy keeping and tough bunch.
 
A good trip Per, got an invite to Valleyview too but my butt was still sore from the trip up to our AGM in the BC Peace country. Got to mile 81 on the Alaska highway then headed into the bush to the ranch. A 19 hour round trip is still too much for my unadapted European body.

Your cows certainly look in good shape. NR do you prefer the Simmi x Angus over the baldie? I bought a cross section of both when I came here I think I preferred the baldies. The Simmi xs had much bigger production but wore out with me quicker - started to cull most at 8-10 years if they hadn't gone already. The baldies were smaller, produced smaller, ate smaller and lasted longer. Have you worked with baldies too Per?
 
All depends on the ingrediants used to make them-big extreme Angus or Herefords make crappy baldies while a good thick angus on good Fleckvieh cows make a pretty moderate F1. Some of the worst F1 heifers I've seen came from outfits famous for raising Hybrid bulls. We run some crossbred bulls but they are out of our own cows and real old out of favour A'I bulls.
 
That's a fine looking herd of cattle Per. If the cattle business can be profitable it'll be with cows like that.

Grassfarmer, you ole coyote, when you turned off at mile 81 you were 10 miles north of my doorstep! I shall consider myself officially snubbed! :shock: :wink:
 
Northern Rancher said:
Some of the worst F1 heifers I've seen came from outfits famous for raising Hybrid bulls.
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Isn't that the truth ! - some of them are famous for selling F1 females too, guess it takes a while for word to get around :roll:

Silver said:
Grassfarmer, you ole coyote, when you turned off at mile 81 you were 10 miles north of my doorstep! I shall consider myself officially snubbed! :shock: :wink:
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I thought you said you were a lot further away Silver - wouldn't have mattered anyway, we just pulled into Wilf's place at supper time and were back on the road after lunch the next day so not a lot of time to visit. Got a kick out of the mile 81 turn of though signed "Aitken Creek" they must have known I was coming :wink:
 
Silver said:
Grassfarmer, you ole coyote, when you turned off at mile 81 you were 10 miles north of my doorstep! I shall consider myself officially snubbed! :shock: :wink:
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I thought you said you were a lot further away Silver - wouldn't have mattered anyway, we just pulled into Wilf's place at supper time and were back on the road after lunch the next day so not a lot of time to visit. Got a kick out of the mile 81 turn of though signed "Aitken Creek" they must have known I was coming :wink:[/quote]

I should have clarified. That's ten miles as the crow flies. Being BC, it takes an hour to make the journey :wink: :lol:
 
Thanks for the replies. I guess I started my career with mostly baldies and have experimented with all sorts of breeds including Hereford, SH, Char and Sim. Really hit on growthy cattle with the flex X and Angus but still had to work too hard at calving. Been a few years down the Angus bulls and home raised hybrids and like the lack of work involved. Have always selected for easy keepers and by and large these cows are not high maintenance. My cows creep smaller every year but I think that is mostly a function of how the Hfs are raised and selected.
 

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