09/29/07, 11:48 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 711
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Introduction
Hi my name is Brisket, just started to raise cows last year with my wife (Tanya). we bought a home by the ocean on the washington state coast with twelve acres and a big barn. I cut the grass the first year and that was the last time. We bought two cows at aution one was a ten year old and seven months pregnate and the other was a four month old heafer calf. Well we got them home and everthings went well the calf took to grain and alfapha
and the hefer took well to the feed and the grass. in febuary the hefer gave birth to a wooping seventy five to eighty pound bull calf (easally) my neighbor said she was good birthing material. to make a long story short she died six weeks later from a worm in her. My neighbor who has been raising cows for fifty years told me there was nothing i could have done or known that the cow had the parasite. (very uncommon) well she told me the calf would probally not make it either. The calf was six weeks and about one hundred and fifty pounds and nobody was about to try and put a hose down his throat. well i went down to the barn for five straight days and talked to that bullfor hours on end. must have shared half the bible with him. He would come closer and closer to me and finally he sniffed me and then licked me on the hand I got him to drink by putting my hand in the water and he would follow my hand with his nose then one time he took just a little sip. this was after five days of no results. yet when he took that first sip it was over, he drank about a gallon a day and started to eat the grain with milk starter sprinkled over the top. he picked up weight and did he ever grow. we just had him slaughtered and he weighed 318 pounds hanging weight cold. had him slaughtered beacause i didnt have him castrated and i cant control a 1 ,500 pound bull with my neighbors cows 500 feet away. my neighbor shared with me that i am a natural with cows and i just love then. i talk to them and i have a special call to call them in. i love to brush them and give them little strokes under the chin. my neighbor behind me calls my barn the cow motel. dont get me wrong, i raise them to eat them. would even like to slaughter and butcher them myself one day when i get all the equipment. the other cow is pregnet and expecting to give birth when she is ninteen months to twenty months but thank God for my neighbor she said that she would help me (she will pull and deliver i will watch, she has been such a blessing and it is amazing that when i admit that i know nothing and keep my mouth shut and my ears open she just teaches me volumes of stuff. thanks for having me on board brisket, Ocosta Cattle Ranch
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