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Visiting last years's calves

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Today I went to see last year's calves before they are harvested. The calves were mixed in with my friend's calves, and some charolais. The feedlot tries to market a pen a week to the packer, and so carcass is important, but not the only deciding factor as to when a pen goes.

Some of the heifers, they go out next week.
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Maybe I should've kept TWO red heifers last fall...too late now!
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Some of the steers.
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WOOPS! I take full blame for the horns :oops: :lol: .
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Lighter calves are wintered on cornstalks and summered on grass. Cattle have a very good life at this ranch/feedlot... especially the lighter ones who get to enjoy the following summer :-) .
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It was a great day, and a good chance to visit about the cattle and discuss past carcass performance. I still have a lot to learn about the feedlot side of this business, but enjoy trying to learn as much as possible about my cattle.
 
If you keep supplying nice soggy, beefy cattle like those steers you'll have no trouble finding yards to feed them. NICE CALVES! The more you can learn about what drives the market, the more options and dollars you'll have. As a high schooler we went to a livestock judging contest. After we jugded all the steers, sheep and hogs we had a two hour lunch and seminar. Then we judged the same animals on the hook. It was a great learning experience to see first hand carcass data after seein' them on the hoof. Nice cattle! :D
 
leanin' H said:
If you keep supplying nice soggy, beefy cattle like those steers you'll have no trouble finding yards to feed them. NICE CALVES! The more you can learn about what drives the market, the more options and dollars you'll have. As a high schooler we went to a livestock judging contest. After we jugded all the steers, sheep and hogs we had a two hour lunch and seminar. Then we judged the same animals on the hook. It was a great learning experience to see first hand carcass data after seein' them on the hoof. Nice cattle! :D
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Thanks for the compliment :D . In college I took a class like that where we judged them live before we slaughtered them. Quite interesting! I think the University of Wyoming still offers a two day course called "Wyobeef 2000", or something similar to that name, for producers to take.
 
It's always interesting to follow cattle that one sells. We sold several years in a row to a feedlot that then would share the data they received on the cattle once killed and rated prime, choice and such. It was interesting for us. Looks like they've fed out well.
 
With out not knowing the Genetics etc... behind that Red heifer it is sad to see her go on to a plate, she is a good looking one.

Nice looking group.
 
aplusmnt said:
With out not knowing the Genetics etc... behind that Red heifer it is sad to see her go on to a plate, she is a good looking one.

Nice looking group.
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Yep, I may have screwed up on that one :-) . I thought she was going to get too extreme and so I sent her to the feedlot. She was a big heifer last fall, and I was trying to pick medium framed, thicker females. She is a Balancer, with a lot of "Freedom" gelbvieh blood in her.

Freedom:
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There were actually more heifers in that pen which would've made good cows. I wish I could find someone to sell my heifers to for replacements instead of feeding them all out :? .
 

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