Posted by JD Seller on February 16, 2019 at 10:34:46 from (208.126.198.213):
We where -5 here yesterday morning. Really mean Thursday night with strong winds too. Not a fit night for man nor beast. Well my youngest called me to come over after chores. He has a lot of heifer feeder cattle that are around 1100 LBS. He woke up to find four of them calved Thursday night in the sub-zero temperatures. LOL They seem to be good Mothers to get a calf licked off and fed in that weather.
He wanted help in deciding what to do with them. They looked like good framed cows. They had not been implanted as they are selling to a "natural" beef supplier, not organic. So I told him if they where mine I would just sort them off and keep them. He really did not have any place to keep them separate but we gated them off in a corner for the time being.
He came over after chores this morning and asked me if I wanted them. I have room in the old barn to keep them penned separate without any issues. So we hooked up the stock trailer to go get them. Guess what we found. Three more calves. LOL So I now have seven cows/calves penned up. Little fellers seem no worse for wear. Already jumping around a little bit.
I mentioned to him about a month ago that I thought that he had bread heifers in that pen. He blew me off as these are "Fancy" calves with all this paperwork guaranteeing they will work in this natural program. Well there are 75 heifers in this lot. We sorted them this morning and I think there are at least 10-12 more that are bread. Vet is coming Monday as he needs documentation for proof against the seller. IF that many are bread then he maybe sort on the delivery contract on the finished end. If they calve they are thrown out of the program under the rules you feed under.
I fed cattle for several "natural" brands of beef over the years. It is a good program IF they can keep honest people in the entire chain. The only reason I quit is that the group I was with had a leadership change and they went totally organic.
The one I really liked the best is Laura's Lean. I fed for them in the 1990s. Good people to work with. It just got hard to get the numbers we needed under their program. The cow calf end was the limiting fact at that time.
Well any way I have some "new" brood cows for this spring. Might have more too. LOL
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