I agree. When my uncle had his cows he always dragged them to the fire. I helped out on several occasions. My profile pic is from one of those brandings. One of the riders was not watching out for those of us on the ground and pulled a calf right into me as I was holding another one. It...
A buddy talked me into dragging mine to the fire a couple years ago, that turned out to be cluster ****, and took longer than it should have. I won't make that mistake again.
I think our water cost us a little over $3000 per year for about 70 acres. We have all gated pipe; it sometimes is a pain because I need help to pick it up in fall and put it out in the spring. Then there is the struggle of leaves clogging up the holes. I'm planning on putting in a bubbler...
You guys are getting all the rain and up here we can't even buy a decent rain. I'm thankful for the 2/10ths we got last week, and maybe 1/2 inch from the storm before that. I finally got water running on the fields monday.
That must take forever. Here it is not uncommon to sell them in cuts of 60 or whatever would make a pot load. Sometimes they may say take 10 or more. I strive to get most of my calves near the same size as they seem to sell better in larger groups. I think the sale last January when I sold...