If I wasn't so tired.......

rrlund · Nov 28, 2015

I'd tell you why guys my age shouldn't still have cattle. Maybe I'll be able to type more tomorrow.
Clothes are going in the laundry,I'm headed for the shower,then a nap.

Paul from MI · Nov 28, 2015

Sounds like a plan, I just woke up from mine.

RBoots · Nov 28, 2015

Ain't you only 60? C'mon, you got a good 3-4 years left lol

Enjoy your nap, I'm sure it's well deserved.

Ross

centash · Nov 28, 2015

Yeah, that why I cut the cattle numbers way back when I turned 60....no regrets.

Ben

ohiojim · Nov 28, 2015

just sold my stock last saturday, still missing them but just not healthy enough to tend to them....

Tom in TN · Nov 28, 2015

I'm in the process of systematically selling off my herd. I figure it will take another 8 months or so based on what I'm doing, but I look forward to being out of the cattle business.

Tom in TN

PS I'm 71 years old. Is that too old to have fun after the herd is gone?

fixerupper · Nov 28, 2015

Ohiojim, I have seen tears in my dad's eyes only twice. One of those times was when he sold the stock cows and we were sitting in his house reminiscing about them after the sale. He really enjoyed those old girls but in my neck of the woods we can make more money row cropping the land so he cashed in.

DoubleR · Nov 28, 2015

Maybe just down size a little. I just finish a few steers every year just to keep me out of trouble. Last summer I went a month without any on the place and felt really funny not having any to feed or worry about. Normally I overlap a little between the big ones and the new group of little ones I get every fall. It was the first time since I can't remember when. I guess I just need a reason to go to the barn every morning and night. Although I do have some laying hens and some barn cats to feed but it not the same.
I have a good neighbor that will take care of things for me in my absence. So I'm not tied down and can get away for a week or two when I want. I just make sure to grind enough feed for him ahead of time.
Growing up we had a cow/calf operation. It was definitely allot more work and stress as opposed to just finishing a few head. I'm a few years older than you but I often wondered how you get it all done running a one man show. So I'm sure you do have days like today.

rrlund · Nov 29, 2015

Whew,it's morning. Not too sore from it all. We ran 63 5-700 pound calves through the chute yesterday. I pushed them through and did the castrating. The oldest boy ran the chute and scale,the wife gave the shots and poured them. We were done by 2 o'clock.
No problem there if that had been it for the day,but there was a round bale feeder that was trashed,so I got that welded back together. When I took it back out,there were about 20 11-1200 pound fats headed out across the pasture. They aren't supposed to be there. They had smashed through a board fence at the end of the feedlot and were still pouring out of there. I slogged through mud that was half way to the top of my boots and dragged a gate shut so they couldn't get mixed in with the cows,but three of them already had. I shot back around front with the tractor,ran in the house and told the wife to call the boy and get him back here. While I was dragging a gate out to plug the hole,two more got out.
We got the big group of them back around in the barn and in to the feedlot then had to go back out and sort off the ones that were with the cows.
At the end,I was elated that I could still run and drag gates through the mud without my heart exploding right out of my chest.

cuby · Nov 29, 2015

A customer of mine,83yrs young,never married,has a heard of cows,his babies. Watches them like a hawk,when ready to calf he puts them in a barn to tend for them. Spring and summer he walks the pastures to check on his herd.

He would be lost without these cows.

Donald Lehman · Nov 29, 2015

Randy,

You need to get a knee replaced because the doc's specify NO RUNNING unless your life is at stake. It would be just the excuse you need for letting somebody ELSE do the running. Lol! (or a well trained border collie/heeler)

bison · Nov 29, 2015

(quoted from post at 06:10:30 11/29/15) Whew,it's morning. Not too sore from it all. We ran 63 5-700 pound calves through the chute yesterday. I pushed them through and did the castrating. The oldest boy ran the chute and scale,the wife gave the shots and poured them. We were done by 2 o'clock.
No problem there if that had been it for the day,but there was a round bale feeder that was trashed,so I got that welded back together. When I took it back out,there were about 20 11-1200 pound fats headed out across the pasture. They aren't supposed to be there. They had smashed through a board fence at the end of the feedlot and were still pouring out of there. I slogged through mud that was half way to the top of my boots and dragged a gate shut so they couldn't get mixed in with the cows,but three of them already had. I shot back around front with the tractor,ran in the house and told the wife to call the boy and get him back here. While I was dragging a gate out to plug the hole,two more got out.
We got the big group of them back around in the barn and in to the feedlot then had to go back out and sort off the ones that were with the cows.
At the end,I was elated that I could still run and drag gates through the mud without my heart exploding right out of my chest.

think you should seriously look into selling those damn cows and get into Bison.
That way you can enjoy life and watch the grass grow instead of working yer azz off.
You'll make more money to boot. :wink:

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