Soo...I am off to buy a bull tomorrow..

Ok he is home. It took ME forever to get home though. I borrowed a truck and trailer from someone an hour away (towards where the bull was) and by the time I unloaded him, took the truck and trailer back, cleaned the building I clean in the evenings...well...its pretty darn late already.


So I got there and they said he was in yonder corral. I looked and looked as we were driving towards it and couldnt see anything. I was so scared he had leaped out. No. He was just so darn short you couldn't see him over the solid part of the panels. I guess the land owner (not the bull owner) roped him and dragged him into the corrals. Then he was stuck in a TINY triangle type area in a crowding tub. He had himself totally worked right into a frenzy. He was slamming himself into the sides and generally just freaking out. hoo boy. It became quickly apparent that the owner didnt seem to know that much about cattle. Umm I think him and his mom might have been the only ones they ever owned. So..... now we gotta load this beast. I thought we were going to have a proper loading chute. No. The end of the chute was a calf sized squeeze that couldnt be moved. So we had to back my little two horse trailer up to a side escape door on the chute and try and rig up the doors right. Then someone brave had to get in there and shut the door on the trailer once he was in.

So I am pretty much terrified and the owner and his daughter are praying out loud (never a good sign).

Well! It was a big to do about nothing. He just calmly walked down the chute and into the trailer and stood there while I shut the door behind him.

He rocked the truck and trailer like CRAZY on the way home. Truck was just bouncing all over the road. I dont know what he was doing. He may have been just circling.

I got home. Drove onto the middle of my land like I planned. I called till I was blue in the face...no cows. Horses finally made an appearance. They thought I had a playmate for them in the trailer!! Ha ha! tricked you. Then the donkeys showed up. Still no cows. finally I saw them start coming over the hill. When they saw the trailer they just froze and wouldnt come any closer. So I decided to just let him out. I opened the door just a crack and ran for the box of the truck. I wasn't taking any chances! He just calmly stepped off the trailer and started looking around. Well as soon as my cows saw him they just stampeded over to him. One actually bucked all the way down the hill. They crowded around him so tight I couldn't hardly get a picture. My youngest cow started hoping around him and seriously looked totally like a puppy trying to get an old dog to play. The cows were SOO happy and he just wanted to explore. Then for some reason my cows all started fighting! lol! Like they were fighting over him. Head smashing all around. the one little girl just kept bouncing. I wish I had of caught it on video. Then as he trotted off my big fat cows tried to buck too and they were grunting and groaning. I just love my girls.

So anyway, I think he will be fine. I am going to check on them in the morning (they are 6 miles away).

here are the pics. They are TERRIBLE quality because it was starting to get dark and my cheap camera cant focus in the dark. Oh I got caught behind a cattle drive on the highway on my way there and thats in there too...

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=960e644fd8

ROFLOL!!

Well then, it looks like you got yourself a Daddy Cow.

Glad it all went off fairly smoothly. I bet you are looking forward to a proper headcount in the morning.

He is gorgeous. Tame as a kitten.

Many happy future calvings!

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great pics, thanks for sharing! He looks nice to me, but I personally would find out for sure about PHA and Chondro (test him to find out). I have Dexters myself, so I am aware of the dangers of breeding 2 positives.....not a good outcome. Your cows look nice and fat, just the way they should be, heading into winter. Again, thanks for the pics!

O WOW, I just LOVE your one BIG girl with the LONG horns!

Thanks! They freaked me out at first, but really, its not like she is going to do anything with them. She is dexter jersey cross and i only paid $400 for her. She is a big sweetheart.

Ya I will. And fat is certainly what they are. If you saw my pasture you would never guess they could get fat on that...but I guess they probably find lots of grass in the trees (I have 80 acres bush, 80 acres of sparse grass). We plan to eventually work up the pastures and seed. Not re-seed. THey were never seeded in the first place. Was originally farmland that was just left wild and only weeds took over.

Ok I just realized that if you are lookin at the pics with your eyeballs you can see how nasty my pasture looks. Looks exactly the same except slightly greener in summer.

I'm sorry, but I don't see one half a 1/16 of an inch of Jersey in that cow! LOL They are ALL tanks! GOOD WORK!

Lol The two that I am petting are both half jersey. They were bottle babies from a dairy. From what I understood they would breed all their first time jersey heifers to a dexter bull for easier calving. I just bought them this past spring when they were 3 and 4. My little girl is pure registered dexter and my other girl is 3/4 dexter 1/4 angus. And I didnt do anything besides turn them out on pasture. But I think my property is cow paradise. I have 2 dugouts, 3 ponds, rolling hills, trails, beautiful scenery....maybe their happiness helps them gain weight! lol! And no one moves them, chases them, bothers them...they have a life of ease. And now they are extra happy that a boyfriend showed up on the scene....even if he is a little young for them lol!

If you plan to register him, and you're keeping him basically on range I highly recommend taking the DNA sample (hairs from tip of tail) while you got him penned still! Was it 15-30 hairs can't remember. But even a calm bull doesn't like the plucking. I had some close call hoof sandwiches and wish I had a squeeze that day.

I thought about that while I had him in the trailer but there was no way I could have yanked on his tail. He was really spinning in there. He is loose on 160 acres now....so... I dunno. Previous owner said they could pet him while he was laying down. Maybe I could go for the gold while he was sleeping. Corrals are getting built next spring. I just ran out of time/money this year. But I am hoping to buy some portable panels in a month or two in case of emergencies.

The appaloosa and paint horses are both gorgeous,

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Thanks! The appy is actually almost totally blind. I got him REAL cheap, but back in his day he was a pony club horse and did jumping/dressage. His previous owner paid $4000 and thats is a LOT for an unregistered appy. He is about 18 now but if you get on him you would swear he was 3. LOTS of spunk.

The pinto is actually a pony of some sort. I rescued her at my very first kill sale. I had NO idea they were all going for meat until the end. I ran in the back desperate to save one (hey I was young and kinda out of my mind). I had wrote down the prices of every horse and I knew the kill buyer had only paid $180 for her. I offered him $250 and he took it and told me to enjoy my pony. I couldnt figure out why he called her a pony. I thought she was a yearling horse. Had the farrier out and he laughed at me and told me she was 3 and never going to grow anymore! lol! Oh well...didn't make any difference to me. She was my VERY first horse and a very hard lesson for me to learn. I tried to train her myself with basically no knowledge of horses. It was a disaster and I ruined her for riding. I never hurt her, but I had no idea what I was doing and now she is a runaway. NOTHING will stop her from bolting like a bat out of h*ll any chance she gets. Sooo....my punishment is to feed her till she dies of old age. She is about 14 now so I got a ways to go.

Lol I just looked at the pic I posted and its so funny to see how out of proportion they are in the pic. The palomino pony Goldie is about 13.1 HH and is my daughters. The pinto Grace is maybe 14-14.1 HH. Skip (the liver chestnut) is at least 15.1.... probably taller. Goldie is just a midget compared to Skip. Chance (the appy) is about as tall as Skip.

Chance is 18 and blind
Grace is 14, runs away and has a crooked leg
Goldie is at LEAST 25 and I swear she has to be older
Skip is 23.

They are all pretty much just decorations.