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With an early start tomorrow morning, we’ll give our steers a second round of vaccinations, as well as attach the EID tags for age and source verifying. Steers average 740 lbs. and gaining 1.5 lbs./day. All will be weaned at least 30 days by July 14th.
Steers
Heifers
#246 (Angus bull x registered Hereford cow)
We have been weaning and preconditioning our calves, and culling cows, since the middle of May. It’s been a good year with plenty rain, plenty feed and fairly high prices, one of those rare combinations that occurs about every thirty years. My Dad claimed his second such season since 1951, in 1978, about one per generation. This is our second since 1978.
Yet to be processed for their second round of vaccinations and EID tags, the calves have weighed-up nicely – steers and heifers averaging over 700 lbs.
We’re trying to dance to our own tune, go our own speed, up early to beat the heat as we get a load ready for the Internet and try to find a home for the balance of our steers and the light-end of our heifers. The heavy-end of our heifers will be bred to Wagyu bulls in the middle of November.
With a break in the weather, we spent a beautiful Saturday with Clarence and Frances Holdbrooks collecting a few cows and calves with the Mule and a little hay.
Clarence & Frances's camp for a burrito and beer
Belle Point cows and calves on the way down the hill
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