OT/not this year

rrlund · Oct 23, 2009

Geez,did I tell everybody how easy of a time I had catching all the calves to wean them last year? I didn't happen to mention how I did it did I? What a nightmare this year! Last year I had all of them by 2PM working alone. This year 3 of us worked all day Saturday and still didn't catch 9 of them. They FLATTENED everything they got close to. Even took a tail light out of the trailer. I patched things up,tried to get them Sunday,got 2 of 9 that were left. The rest tore up my repairs to the corral. So yesterday I bought a BUNCH of new lumber,spent most of the day rebuilding things from the ground up,now I can't even get them into it. I just hope they settle down and come in before the snow gets too deep to haul'em out. My cousin got out of the cattle business a few years ago over a situation like this. I'm starting to see why.

LAA · Oct 23, 2009

I was two weeks late planting ryegrass on one pasture because of the same thing, I could pen the cows but could not trap about half of their calves. finally creep fed for a week with the mommas penned next to the creep and my son hid in the woods several days for hours at a time but he got them all.

Mike (WA) · Oct 23, 2009

Have a friend who had a small herd of Limousins in addition to his wheat operation. Seemed like the cattle always needed attention at precisely the worst times- he got more and more exasperated with them, and the last straw was one winter when it snowed so much it buried all the fences, and the critters just started wandering around the farmstead, soon joined by some others from neighboring farms with the same problem. After the snow finally melted, loaded 'em up and off they went. Tore down the barn and corral, and lets the neighbor hay the swales for free.

rrlund · Oct 23, 2009

Yep,there's one real flighty cow there with a heifer calf on her that's wise to the whole operation. She'll get on the backside of her calf and push it away,then the rest go right with them. At least NOW they do. I had all but 2 of them right off the bat Saturday morning til one of them took some boards off the corral. It's been all down hill since.

keh · Oct 23, 2009

BTDT. Recently rebuilt a pen because a bull jumped on a homade steel gate and mashed it. Rest of chute was old so rebuilt and rearranged some. Made smaller gate 6 feet high, covered solid.

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