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firesweepranch

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Well, getting ready for our State sale at the end of March we decided it was time to do some clipping! This was the first time we have clipped a non-halter broke animal, and it went just dandy! I was not sure why I was so worried, but when you have the right equipment things seem to go smoothly. We clipped the white face cow, a Preferred Beef 4 year old who is not halter broke, and she looked pretty good at the end. I need a light in our barn on one side, since there was a shadow and it was hard for my daughter to see on that side! But, here are some pics I took on my phone after we let them out.
The first is the Preferred Beef cow, she is bred to the bull in my avatar, due the week after the sale. She is the dam of the two year old and recip of the bull pictured. We will take pictures tomorrow with my good camera (a Cannon Ti3)
The second pic is a two year old, Club King, with a Grandmaster bull calf on her side. Her udder is pretty full since she had been in the chute for a bit away from her calf. She just calved a week ago today.
The third pic is a Feb purebred Movin Forward that my daughter consigned, only because she has two Feb heifers to show this year so one needs to go. (this pic was taken with my Cannon, along with the next)
The last pic is our bull, an embryo, by Triple C Invasion and a blackfoot cow. He is a Feb purebred.
Fun day! Tomorrow, picture day.... and boy is it cold outside!
 

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leanbeef

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I like the baldy cow and the yearling heifer. I wish the Preferred Beef cow already had a calf on the ground. April is too late for us here :-(
 

firesweepranch

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Yea, the only reason we are selling the baldy is because she did not keep her embryo, and someone has to go. We are running too many cows on too few acres... She is due the end of March, and was set up to calf the first of March with an embryo. She has raised us some great cattle, so sad to see her go. The others that are calving still all have embryos or valuable AI calves, or one of them should have gone instead.
Thanks for commenting. Looks like it is going to be a nice day today so hopefully we can get some good pictures!
 

leanbeef

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We have a few Preferred Beef daughters, and I really like them. I wish we had more of em.

We finished calving our home herd this morning...a bull calf out of a blaze faced heifer we bought at Nick Sloup's year before last. He'll be our only calf by our newest clean up bull...a flush mate to Sure Fire that sold for $19,000 at Cow Camp's last spring. Everything else that was bred to him sold at our open house last fall. Most of em ended up in South Dakota...

25 babies out of 25 cows in that group this year with three ET babies...I'm pretty happy. I think we ended up with six baldies, so that makes me REALLY happy! That was most of the ones that could have been baldies. Now we just get to wait and see who rises to the top as cream of the crop!
 
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