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Nicky

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OK, I'm trying to get back in gear :) Here are some cattle pics from this summer.

Yearling heifers
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Steer calf
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1st calver with her heifer calf
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Nice cow with her bull calf
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Cow and calf
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You said these were summer pictures? Just curious..as brown as it is there, was hoping to see a little green yet this summer for ya...but yur critters seem to do quite well in your country...Thanks
 
Whoa baby it is dry....................
Nicky I think you have some of the best herefords I ever seen...... They sure are good doers..... Will you tip the bull calf horns or do you weight them??? Very nice thanks for sharing.................
 
Nicky, do you run polled and horned Herfords? I see that steer calf has no horns, that's why I'm asking. BTW, I think he would've made a nice bull. :wink:
 
Really good looking cattle Nicky gotta love them herefords.Sorry you all are so dry. We are currently between summer and winter rains and keep hearing rumors that winter is not supposed to be so good oh well thats life in the desert.
 
Thanks everyone :) I'll see if I get everyone's questions in one reply. LOL

Jassy, it did green up this spring briefly but was pretty brown all summer, Mike has been telling everyone they haven't had anything green to eat since we quit feeding hay...a slight exaggeration.

Katrina, we tip the bull horns.

Shelly, we have a few polled cows, ai to polled bulls occasionally. But we dehorn the steer and heifer calves.

NR, no winterfat, wish we did!
 
Nicky said:
Thanks everyone :)

Katrina, we tip the bull horns.

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Reminds me of the other day when we were working cattle at a remote scale-- one young (30ish) cowboy found a hornweight that was buried in the dirt-- didn't have any idea what it was..... :shock:

50 years ago when I was working those pastures they were all herefords-You never saw a black--- now the cowboy that works the place doesn't even know what a horn weight is :wink: :lol:
 
Nice pictures, Nicky. Your cattle are looking good and good looking. Can't beat that. :wink:

Oldtimer said:
Reminds me of the other day when we were working cattle at a remote scale-- one young (30ish) cowboy found a hornweight that was buried in the dirt-- didn't have any idea what it was..... :shock:

50 years ago when I was working those pastures they were all herefords-You never saw a black--- now the cowboy that works the place doesn't even know what a horn weight is :wink: :lol:
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I've messed with a lot of horn weights back in my younger years. You could use as many weights as were available, and put them on quite a few cattle all on the same day, but you couldn't take them off on the same day. It was even seldom that you could take both horn weights off of the same critter on the same day. One or two days too long can make a horn look bad for the remainder of the life of the Hereford. If the weight has been left on too long, the horn will curve too far down and eventually grow back into the side of the head of the critter. For permanent identification on registered Herefords, it was common practice to brand numbers into the horns.
 
The comments on how dry it looks remnds me of Colege field trips with Students from Western oregon where it is pretty wet.

Comments like, "What do they eat out here?" and "Where is the Grass?"

My favorite was a kid who slept on the trip and woke to say, "Oh My God, what is this place?"


LOL, people don't realize what cattle can do..They are amazing in thier ability to convert some of this feed,

And we are no where near Nevada fo desert feed, LOL,

PPRM
 

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