ya - i'm weak! i wanted my headstone to read like isbell's... oh well. i thought about it lots and asked myself why i wasn't doing it on the com cows anyhow - only reasons i could come up with were tradition and pride. a purebred angus breeder from north of cut bank that had bought a hand full of bulls over the years asked to trade straight across that spring and i took him up on it with two bulls. i remember him saying he didn't know why he didn't do it long before he did.
bulls are doing good - going to carcass scan in another 10 days or so. got a good report back on the one i sent into canada that they scanned there. 2nd highest rea/cwt out of his whole bunch and a 3.99 imf score with 0.16 back fat - i thought it was pretty interesting anyhow not putting as much emphasis on carcass as most. i still think you just stick to breeding the right females and the rest comes along with instead of chasing this or that.
got 3 of the 6 ET calves and so far all heifers

. Hopefully two more heifers and 1 bull then i don't have to sell one!
heres some pics from this am
1st calvers - 1 month and 28 days of hay into them...
some of the calves out with the cows - 6 days of hay into the mature cows this year
tara came out to tag, tattoo, and weigh this am... along with pecos, he's such a good dog. stays off about 75ft when we find a new one.