The Official Farming Thread...

[Wilhelm]

Mommy duck leading her brood, second outing today.


Had to lock the junior ducks, her previous brood, away as the young ladies went after the little ducklings for whatever reason yesterday.


The three seniors behaved, caused no troubles whatsoever.

 

[Only the Tony]

September 12 is the day for these. Moved them to my corral today for a bit of extra grain if they can get it from the bulls. Going to have to think about how to make that happen.

 

[Mastermind]

We have several 500lb steers ready for the sale. I'm going to let them go a few more months though. Then the 4 weight steers should be ready to go too. Not too worried about them being a little extra heavy.

 

[Only the Tony]

We have several 500lb steers ready for the sale. I'm going to let them go a few more months though. Then the 4 weight steers should be ready to go too. Not too worried about them being a little extra heavy.

I figuring these to go 900+ hanging I hope. Angus cross so no big, fast growing breed. One for the family and the other two sold by hanging weight, buyer pays processing.

 

[Only the Tony]

First rain in at least 5 weeks hit about 11 last night. Not sure of the amount, but any is good news. Watching and hoping as a large cell moves through Kansas right now.

 

[Only the Tony]

Steers in the middle flanked by the bulls. They have some weight to them, especially when they were moving around in the trailer heading down the highway. Thinking about some portable scales just for my own curiosity. Cheapest way would be to get load cells and display and put together my own platform over them. For small timer like myself I can't justify a high dollar setup to use just a half a dozen times a year.

 

[Mastermind]

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Steers in the middle flanked by the bulls. They have some weight to them, especially when they were moving around in the trailer heading down the highway. Thinking about some portable scales just for my own curiosity. Cheapest way would be to get load cells and display and put together my own platform over them. For small timer like myself I can't justify a high dollar setup to use just a half a dozen times a year.

I'm considering the same setup Tony.

 

[Only the Tony]

I'm considering the same setup Tony.

Biggest thing I am seeing in the reviews is that with these cheaper import setups is the controller stops working after a times. Much like replacement parts for most things anymore it's hit or miss. Keep thinking I will find a used one close to home but most of them look beat half to death at basically new prices.

 

[kingOFgEEEks]

A neighbor lives close to a quarry, so he just weighs his rig, loads whatever cattle he's sending, then rolls back across the scale. It's close enough for friends and family type deals.

 

[jakethesnake]

 

[jakethesnake]

Puwu welder from TikTok shop 60$ I think I paid


I don’t weld great especially upside down/ overhead. However that lil piece of will indeed weld. Runs off 110

 

[Mastermind]

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Is that welder worth a damn?

 

[jakethesnake]

I don’t have a sediment trap anymore but I’m back to irrigating

 

[MAF143]

We've been lucky so far this year with rain. We've been able to keep nice lush green pasture so far... but we've been a week without rain and only a 50% chance Wednesday for the only chance showing in the next 10 day forecast. We have 9 paddocks in the two pastures. We rotate the 7 steers through them and I have an old well in between the two pastures and run a solar pump to the water tanks and a sprinkler that gets moved every day around the paddocks. If the sun's shining, the sprinkler is running. The tanks stay full, but it's not enough water to the sprinkler in a full drought but it helps. We normally don't need a lot of hay except the first couple weeks and in the dry spells. They get grain the whole time we have them to keep them young, tender, and tasty at butcher time.

We just have a small friends and family operation where we buy 5-600 pounders in late February or early March and feed them out till late October. So far we've been hitting the 1,300 to 1,400 live weight at butcher time. It's getting expensive this way with the cost of feeders going up every year, but we don't have to trudge through the snow and deal with freezing pipes and tanks... Sure is nice not having to buy beef at the grocery store... This years steak seeds were quite a variety of ages / weights when we got them so we'll probably end up with a wider range of weights at butcher time. It is what it is and it all tastes great...

 

[jakethesnake]

Is that welder worth a damn?

Worked today. You might be a better welder than me but after my initial testing I’d say buy one. I can make it work

 

[Mastermind]

Worked today. You might be a better welder than me but after my initial testing I’d say buy one. I can make it work

I have a little Century welder that is surprisingly good.

 

[MAF143]

I've got an old Lincoln tombstone that I can run off my generator for out in the field, but I can't get all that heavy stuff up very high on the carry all... My overhead ability is pretty limited...

 

[jakethesnake]

I have a little Century welder that is surprisingly good.

This thing will burn rods pretty impressive. Good enough I got it out to use it because it’s light and portable as hell

 

[kingOFgEEEks]

We've been lucky so far this year with rain. We've been able to keep nice lush green pasture so far... but we've been a week without rain and only a 50% chance Wednesday for the only chance showing in the next 10 day forecast. We have 9 paddocks in the two pastures. We rotate the 7 steers through them and I have an old well in between the two pastures and run a solar pump to the water tanks and a sprinkler that gets moved every day around the paddocks. If the sun's shining, the sprinkler is running. The tanks stay full, but it's not enough water to the sprinkler in a full drought but it helps. We normally don't need a lot of hay except the first couple weeks and in the dry spells. They get grain the whole time we have them to keep them young, tender, and tasty at butcher time.

We just have a small friends and family operation where we buy 5-600 pounders in late February or early March and feed them out till late October. So far we've been hitting the 1,300 to 1,400 live weight at butcher time. It's getting expensive this way with the cost of feeders going up every year, but we don't have to trudge through the snow and deal with freezing pipes and tanks... Sure is nice not having to buy beef at the grocery store... This years steak seeds were quite a variety of ages / weights when we got them so we'll probably end up with a wider range of weights at butcher time. It is what it is and it all tastes great...

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My wife's uncle has a nice cow/calf operation in Wyoming. When we were out visiting this summer, he said that they haven't kept a replacement heifer for two years now, because weaned calves are going for such a high price, it doesn't make sense to hang onto them. He figures it will either bottom out eventually, and he can rebuild, or it won't and he can retire off what he's making selling weaners.

 

[Mastermind]

My wife's uncle has a nice cow/calf operation in Wyoming. When we were out visiting this summer, he said that they haven't kept a replacement heifer for two years now, because weaned calves are going for such a high price, it doesn't make sense to hang onto them. He figures it will either bottom out eventually, and he can rebuild, or it won't and he can retire off what he's making selling weaners.

We're still keeping our best heifers. But they are crazy high here too.