Slowly Coming Soon!

[blsnelling]

Those are just some of your Vises. I mean Vices.

Philbert

I've only kept 4 of those

 

[Mastermind]

Not a need but a want. Kinda like any of us needing 20 saws but alot of us having them?

I have about ten grand in all the equipment I make hay with. Thinking about having that much in a lawn mower just seems......well, insane. lol

 

[blsnelling]

I get more enjoyment out of my mower than anything I own.

 

[blsnelling]

I have about ten grand in all the equipment I make hay with. Thinking about having that much in a lawn mower just seems......well, insane. lol

Some of us make hay while some of us make stripes

 

[Keith Gandy]

I have about ten grand in all the equipment I make hay with. Thinking about having that much in a lawn mower just seems......well, insane. lol

I hear ya!!

 

[fordf150]

I have about ten grand in all the equipment I make hay with. Thinking about having that much in a lawn mower just seems......well, insane. lol

do it long enough and that will triple easily. I started out with a $300 haybine, $50 hay rake, and a $100 square baler and pulled it all with a hand me down 1950's massey. Now i have a 20k in a tractor and a $4000 hay rake along with the newer round baler, a newer haybine, but still using a dirt cheap square baler. Really bad part is that i dont raise beef to sell, just to eat and i really like beef so that means we butcher 2 per year

 

[Mastermind]

do it long enough and that will triple easily. I started out with a $300 haybine, $50 hay rake, and a $100 square baler and pulled it all with a hand me down 1950's massey. Now i have a 20k in a tractor and a $4000 hay rake along with the newer round baler, a newer haybine, but still using a dirt cheap square baler. Really bad part is that i dont raise beef to sell, just to eat and i really like beef so that means we butcher 2 per year

How many head have you got Nate?

 

[Mastermind]

We are at 25 head right now, counting calves and bulls. We have 7 yearling heifers in one field with our Angus bull, and 9 cows in with a young Hereford bull.

Here's some of the calves posing for the camera.

 

[fordf150]

How many head have you got Nate?

nice looking crazy cows, dont know how you do it.

just sold 4 calves a couple months ago but i think there are 13-14 head now......I dont keep track other than if the pasture is getting eaten down i sell some and if I start running low on slaughter sized i start getting antsy about having more calves. My lowline angus bull is pumping out calves but they are all bulls....last 2 years i have had 7-8 calves and all but one were bulls.

12-15 is the max my pasture can handle right now, internal fences are crappy so i can't do intensive grazing and the other 45 acres isnt fenced because I am too poor and lacking the time to build fence. We are going to try and get the other 45 acres fenced in the next few years which will open up more opportunity because that ground butts up against some ground i lease for hay and there is almost 100 acres fenced there with no animals running on it.


my blind calf is doing good and actually seems to be getting some sight back. my daughter chases him around the yard and he doesnt run into anything and he can negotiate the back porch to get his bottle so maybe i can get him out to pasture with the rest of them once he is off the bottle

 

[Mastermind]

nice looking crazy cows, dont know how you do it.

just sold 4 calves a couple months ago but i think there are 13-14 head now......I dont keep track other than if the pasture is getting eaten down i sell some and if I start running low on slaughter sized i start getting antsy about having more calves. My lowline angus bull is pumping out calves but they are all bulls....last 2 years i have had 7-8 calves and all but one were bulls.

12-15 is the max my pasture can handle right now, internal fences are crappy so i can't do intensive grazing and the other 45 acres isnt fenced because I am too poor and lacking the time to build fence. We are going to try and get the other 45 acres fenced in the next few years which will open up more opportunity because that ground butts up against some ground i lease for hay and there is almost 100 acres fenced there with no animals running on it.


my blind calf is doing good and actually seems to be getting some sight back. my daughter chases him around the yard and he doesnt run into anything and he can negotiate the back porch to get his bottle so maybe i can get him out to pasture with the rest of them once he is off the bottle

My brother in law had a blind calf born on his place last fall. It runs with some other heifers about the same age, and gets around really well. You wouldn't know it was blind unless you got a close look at it's eyes.

I'm running more cows on this place than I should be really. About 30 acres in two separate fields. I'm maxed out right now......

Luckily I lease 54 acres from my neighbor that joins one of my fields that I cut hay off of. We've almost got it ready for cows (the fences had to be rebuilt) so I can winter my herd on it.

 

[fordf150]

My brother in law had a blind calf born on his place last fall. It runs with some other heifers about the same age, and gets around really well. You wouldn't know it was blind unless you got a close look at it's eyes.

I'm running more cows on this place than I should be really. About 30 acres in two separate fields. I'm maxed out right now......

Luckily I lease 54 acres from my neighbor that joins one of my fields that I cut hay off of. We've almost got it ready for cows (the fences had to be rebuilt) so I can winter my herd on it.

I would say so....we have 45 acres.....all but 3-5 of it is fenced and before i sold those 4 calves my fields were looking pretty bare. About half my pasture is heavily wooded too so that makes a big difference vs being mostly open or a thin woods that has some grass under the canopy. Last 2 years i worked on thinning the woods a bit and clear cut a few acres to help ease the burden but its still not enough to get much over 10-12 head. this spring i fertilized some of the pasture with 200# per acre of triple 19....didnt make much difference(that i could tell anyway) on how fast it grew but it did go from pale green to a nice dark green and look much healthier.

 

[Dub11]

nice looking crazy cows, dont know how you do it.

just sold 4 calves a couple months ago but i think there are 13-14 head now......I dont keep track other than if the pasture is getting eaten down i sell some and if I start running low on slaughter sized i start getting antsy about having more calves. My lowline angus bull is pumping out calves but they are all bulls....last 2 years i have had 7-8 calves and all but one were bulls.

12-15 is the max my pasture can handle right now, internal fences are crappy so i can't do intensive grazing and the other 45 acres isnt fenced because I am too poor and lacking the time to build fence. We are going to try and get the other 45 acres fenced in the next few years which will open up more opportunity because that ground butts up against some ground i lease for hay and there is almost 100 acres fenced there with no animals running on it.


my blind calf is doing good and actually seems to be getting some sight back. my daughter chases him around the yard and he doesnt run into anything and he can negotiate the back porch to get his bottle so maybe i can get him out to pasture with the rest of them once he is off the bottle

I remember when my cousin had a blind. heifer. It didnt like moving much and he showed it for 4H. It was really tasty too.

 

[Mastermind]

The pasture with the cows in it doesn't have any trees in it except a few around the pond. It's got really good thick grass in it.......and we keep it trimmed, limed, and get chicken litter spread on it every couple years. The chicken litter smells horrible, but adds a lot of organic material back into the ground. This picture shows how good the grass is even with ten cows and seven calves on it.

 

[Mastermind]

I remember when my cousin had a blind. heifer. It did like moving much and he showed it for 4H. It was really tasty too.

Tasty is the key word.......

 

[fordf150]

I remember when my cousin had a blind. heifer. It did like moving much and he showed it for 4H. It was really tasty too.

I named him Sirloin for a reason....he should make some tasty and tender steaks being barn kept

 

[Mastermind]

I named him Sirloin for a reason....he should make some tasty and tender steaks being barn kept

LOL.......my Angus bull is named SirLoin.

 

[Duane(Pa)]

Ahh, very few trees and lots of chicken sh!t....Good business model!

I love to hear about other peoples lives, hopes and dreams.

We are damn lucky to be free...

 

[Mastermind]

Ahh, very few trees and lots of chicken sh!t....Good business model!

I love to hear about other peoples lives, hopes and dreams.

We are damn lucky to be free...

AMEN !!!!!

 

[RI Chevy]

And Freedom aint free!!!

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[Mastermind]

Progress report please.