It's good to be around cattle again (lots of pix).

[Karin L]

Haven't seen these fellers for a couple months, they've grown and lost their winter coats since I last seen them. Oh yeah, and I think they missed me, cause they were following me everywhere I went, I'd be taking a pic of one thing and a steer would be behind sniffing an' lickin at me. I didn't realize till today how much I missed that. AND the other thing I noticed with these steers is that they're much more, I guess, friendlier than before. THey still keep their distance and don't threaten me, though.

Okay, now for the pics.


Wondering where the heck I was all this time??


Sayin hi


A couple of red angus's


Curiosity


Taste testing my glove.I got eight or nine BA's that are just as friendly as that.


CharX peering over the fence


Butt ends of a couple Blacks and a char


Brockle-face

[Karin L]

My followers


Roachback herfX


The three black stooges, with their side kicks


Char-BA-X at the bale and a BA-X


Char fight over pecking order


Char-simmi X...a freindly bugger, but a kicker if startled


Simmi-Angus-andsomethingelse-X and others


Shortie-Angus-simmi....lets call him a Heinz 57-X, with the head of a SimmiX inthe forground and a bunch of others in the back.

[JeffNY]

Well atleast we got a picture of your hand, still no karin....



In that one picture, was that a mound of hay/manure they were on? The dump wagon was in the backround.


Jeff

[Karin L]

Jeff, that's an old manure pile that they're on. It's about the driest spot I can find in that whole pen, next to the straw bed that's on the east side of it (left side of the pic).

[Karin L]

Oh fine Jeff...you win!

I was trying to take a pic of that steer looking in behind me without trying to turn around...


So...here's me..

[JeffNY]

See, that wasn't overly hard .



How tall is that pile? With that steer? standing up there, looks over 10' tall. But I hear ya with the wet, here it dried out twice, since it has rained. This last storm really saturated the ground, but dry is coming, hopefully by Sunday, it will be dry again. Long range shows showers here and there, so it should dry out nicely.


Jeff

[agmantoo]

Karin,
Do you get any feedback from the processor as to how these animals grade? we do not have any feed lots in my area. I seldom see any quantity of finishing cattle. Calves leave here at 550 lbs.

[Karin L]

Jeff the pile is at least 8 or 10 feet tall, it often gets higher when we're piling up the manure in the late spring (when things have pretty much dried up).

agman, these steers we have are backgrounded only, when they get up to in between 900-1000 lbs we sell them to the feedlot. I know it looks like a feedlot in there, but no, they're not IN a feedlot. It would be nice to know what them animals grade at the processing plant from the feedlot folks, but actually we don't get that kind of info. Although, my guess (and a wild one at that) that the grade these animals recieve are probably pretty darn good. BTW, steers leave the feedlots to be slaughtered at an average of 1100 lbs, at about an age of 20 months.