Me too!

Thanks Papi!

Thank you!

Ditto! Very gentle cattle.

Thank you and thanks for watching!

Thanks! Trying!

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Thanks Robert 👌🏼👌🏼

Where are you located?

Thanks George! Green grass is one day closer for you!

Great observations Carl! I’m seeing the same! Low birth weights and coming on strong!

She’s growing on me! I’m likely going to keep her for a replacement heifer!

I would not blame you a bit but if you decide to sell her later on I’m going to email you my info !

Thanks John!

It’s the best part of ranching by far!!

Great time of year to have calves hit the ground.

Thanks Eric!

She came into her milk today. Good observation!!

Thus far, no calving problems. 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Beautiful days, green grass, baby calves. Doesn’t get any better than that.

I’m not aware of what they are doing. Tell me what you know.

No, he’s in the group. I guess he just didn’t make the video this time 😊

They are not out of the Greg Judy bull. They are out of a bull or bulls at Sassafras valley Ranch (Bruce Shanks) in Missouri. I bought them as bred heifers. I got rid of the Greg Judy bull because he’s not registered and I want to have registered South Polls so I can provide seed stock to other producers.

Have 4 more to go. Should be within a couple weeks.

Will breed the black cows to the South Poll bull and sell the half blood calves. As I raise or buy more South Polls, I will gradually cull the black cows.

@@cliffhonnasregenerativerancher UO already have me looking forward to next year!

I’ve sold all but one south poll private treaty so no good gauge. The red calves that are 50% south poll fetch the same price as the blacks. Last batch I sold brought $1550/head.

Good deal and I just wandered. They are good looking cows but I heard some farmers around home say the black cows bring better at the sale barn. Maybe that is changing. Once the hide is off they all look the same pretty muc!

Much I mean.

@charmainevandiford6622 I think there still is a black calf preference by buyers but it will be interesting to see what happens going forward. I sure don’t know.

Would be a tough program to drive that far in my opinion (not to mention the fuel expense). Last year, I sectioned each pasture off into 4-6 acre paddocks. It was a strain for sure to move them on some days. This year I’m going to make 10-12 acre paddocks so I can move them about every 6-7 days (weekends). By the time I get around the rotation, each paddock will have rested 45 days or more. Since we haven’t had much rain, I may have to change to a different time frame/paddock. It’s not high density, short time interval grazing, but it works for me.

One thing you could do is setup several paddocks on the weekend and put time released spring gates on each paddock so they will move themselves to new pasture. Might take a little while for them to train to the gates.

I’m running 55 head (53 cows and 2 bulls). They run on about 200 acres but at least 50 acres is solid woods, so about 150 acres of grass.

If you were doing daily moves, could you run more cows?

Probably, but it’s way more of a time commitment then I have currently, plus we are getting on the shy side of grass currently because of no rain in 3 weeks. If I had the time and the rain was coming, I likely could run 20 more head with daily moves.