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The Main Herd

randiliana

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And here are some photos of the more mature girls. First a group shot.
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A rear end shot. The 2 spotted ones are mom and daughter
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#167 and #169. Bought them as part of a package of replacement heifers. Both 2nd calvers now. WR, these are some of those red heifers you remember.....
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#120, a 3rd calver we raised. Hereford x Angus
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#109, older cow
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#34, 4th calver, we raised. Angus x Gelbveih and a little hereford.
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#173 a Purebred Shorthorn we bought in Dec.
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#115, #123 and #110, Purebred Shorthorns we bought in Dec. Mother and 2 daughters.
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#22, 3rd calver (well 4th, she had twin heifers last year) Shorthorn x Angus
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Anonymous

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per said:
Your girls look good Randi.

But they look like a Brand Inspectors nightmare :wink: :lol:

I wish I had a copy of that picture that used to hang at the brand office- think that old gal had around 30 different brands on her.... :shock: Half bar-b-qued all ready :wink: :lol:
 

randiliana

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Thanks, guys,

They start calving about Mar 6.

Yeah, and most we bought as either calves or bred heifers. Pretty sad to think they had already gone through 3-4 owners.

Hay is mostly Alfalfa. Some Crested Wheat, Brome Grass and Slough Grass (whatever that is :lol: )
 

WyomingRancher

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Well it looks like they grew into nice cows for you, thanks for the update :D . This herd isn't quite a one iron group either, so I understand what you're saying.
 

nmhighdesert

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it looks like they are wintering well, thanks for the pictures

OT, I bought some cows from a fella down here about 10 yrs ago, he just transfered his brand to me, it was the end of his bunch, one cow had 13 marks on her and 3 ft of antlers, probably why she was a trader!
 

gcreekrch

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Cattle look good Randi.

We also have a lot of bought cows in the herd. In 2003 we bought a load of half starved heifers from the Ft. St. John area that started calving on the truck on there way here. Some of them already had five different irons on them before ours was added. 40 heifers had 41 calves and weaned them all. 15 were empty that fall because of their poor condition. We kept most of them instead of keeping h/c as they were only worth 10 or 12 cents a lb. They have gone on to be pretty good cows with about 50% still here.
Another cow that came out of a dispersal sale had 9 brands before ours, not sure why she traded so much as she was a good cow and raised several calves here before a grizzly killed her in 2007.
 

PureCountry

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Cows look good for the most part, a couple look a little less thrifty than the rest, shall we say? We all have a few like that though.
 

burnt

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PureCountry said:
Cows look good for the most part, a couple look a little less thrifty than the rest, shall we say? We all have a few like that though.

I think we all have a few, at least I sure do. Just looked at a couple this morning when I fed them and thought I should send them to town but they are not worth very much and they do raise a pretty decent calf.
 

randiliana

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As long as they raise a good calf and continue to do it, they don't have to look great. Some of our poorest lookers are our best cows.

We have lots of trader cattle. Sad to say, but it is easier to get a loan to buy new cows, than it is to keep our own replacements. On the whole, I think our own replacements stay in the herd than a group of boughten bred heifers. But, I like the excitement of buying cows and heifers, so even though we are now in a position to keep more of our own heifers back, I think we will still buy some cows, now and then.
 

PureCountry

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Aside from that whole argument about the advantages of keeping your own, buying cows in can be the cheapest way to build a cow herd. An old boy west of us runs 250 cows, and hasn't kept a heifer back in 20 years. He starting buying cheap cows when he was a Brand Inspector in the 70's, and just kept at it. I've watched him sit at sales for 10-12 hours and not buy a thing, and other times when he sees something he likes and the price is right, he takes home a trailer load. Different strokes....
 

Faster horses

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One thing it does do, that raising your own doesn't...is give you
a basis in your cows.

However, we built our cowherd on retaining our replacements. Our
goal at one point was to have all one-brand cattle. And we did.
 

Big Muddy rancher

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We were probably with in a dozen of having a one iron herd then we bought those Hereford cows.
They came with 2 brands on them from the same place. :???:

I think they were partnership cows between the father and daughter. Each with their own brand.
 

Northern Rancher

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With feeder asociations and such they can get pretty marked up and never leave home tyhat's for sure. Ty got on a bronc in new mexico had nowhere left to brand lol.
 

RSL

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Northern Rancher said:
With feeder asociations and such they can get pretty marked up and never leave home tyhat's for sure. Ty got on a bronc in new mexico had nowhere left to brand lol.
Those brands could be a good indication of why she was in a bucking string??? :shock:
 

Northern Rancher

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Wasn't much of a horse not many spoiled saddle horses stand up once they get some iron stuck in them-she was a tiny little appy horse kind of hard to track not much to her. Ty likes big Canadian horses best.
 

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