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The last couple days, as of November 24, 2010

Soapweed

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Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?
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Frosty features
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Feed outfit
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Feathers of frost
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Geese on the move
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Feed outfit in use
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Getting familiar with protein cubes, which we call "cake."
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Girls grabbing for the gusto
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Cat Spur, the friendly host
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Feeding hay out of the wind
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Cold sunset
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Swans walking on water
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Potential for cold feet
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Load of rough swamp hay that the cows will like on this chilly day
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Cotton candy clouds
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Closer up
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The lake is all frozen over.
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One more
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The End
 

gcreekrch

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Your days look as cold as it has been here the last week other than we have three inches of snow. It warmed up today and is supposed to snow another few inches tommorow.

What are your plans with your h/c Soap? The bred market could be shiney next fall considering the size of the NA herd.
 

Soapweed

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gcreekrch said:
Your days look as cold as it has been here the last week other than we have three inches of snow. It warmed up today and is supposed to snow another few inches tommorow.

What are your plans with your h/c Soap? The bred market could be shiney next fall considering the size of the NA herd.

We are planning to bangs vaccinate all the heifer calves (some are already done and placed in a backgrounding lot for the winter) whenever the weather moderates a bit. By grass time next spring, some culling can be done before the bulls are turned out.

All of our older cows were mouthed this fall (anything older than those born in 2008). Broken mouthed cows were tagged with an extra orange tag, short solids were given yellow tags, and solid mouths were tagged green. These cows have all been sold right off the ranch, private treaty. The prices were: BM $800, SS $900, and SM $1000. Some 2003 model cows that were purchased as bred heifers were sold for $1100, and I've sold some coming 5-year-old cows for $1400. We are selling 110 head of coming 4-year-old cows at Valentine Livestock Auction on December 9th. Quite a few coming 2-year-old heifers are waiting in the wings to take the place of cows that are being sold. Don't know if this is the right plan, but it is the plan were are taking.
 

gcreekrch

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As long as the market doesn't drop and you start buying back calving should be pretty easy. :)

Nothing at all wrong with keeping a young herd in case a really good year comes along and makes one feel the urge to disperse. :wink:
We are at 55% third calf or younger for this coming calving season. Would be nice to shed a few of the older ones but if a cow makes it through the first two years here she will typically last to 12 to 14. As there is no difference yet between the price of a kill cow and an old bred one the ol' darlings will likely raise another calf or two here.
 
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