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    Big trouble... please advise

    Everyone always talks about abused women..what about the abused men in the world...was married 18 yrs.to a woman who wanted to fight everytime she walked in door from 1 of her drunk episodes. Have been completely asleep & had full unopened beers bounced off eyeballs..beat with pistol barrels ( I...
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    2-19 pics

    My question is with the price of diesel still going up does it take a 200+ hp. tractor to pull that spreader??
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    young Simbrah bull calf

    He is going to San Antonio in Feb. & then Houston in March. I have a full sibling to him on some cows in Okla. I will see which of the 2 I like the best. One of them will be for sale. I have another preg. due on Jan. 23rd...It needs to be a heifer but probably not my luck.
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    young Simbrah bull calf

    Well, as I said he is only 192 days old...been off his moma 23 days...spent the first week in the trailer because of the hurricane...but is eating about 17-18 lbs day now...he just needs to grow & fill in...i love his muscle & bone..he is cleaned sheathed for purebred Simbrah.... just was...
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    young Simbrah bull calf

    let me know what you think of this young bull...he is only 192 days today. Thelast weight was 614 on 9-11-08. He is an embryo calf out of LMC RFI Smith Red Bullet & a Strack cow.
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    Scenes from south La after Ike

    Yep, right now if you got cattle in a trailer here you better be able to prove you own them...the rangers (3) were there when he loaded the 2200 hd. & there when he unloaded in Sealy....
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    Scenes from south La after Ike

    The first week or so it was just survival mode. Now they are penning cattle & sorting by brands. I know several big guys that have shipped 2000- 6000 hd out west. Some are having complete dispersals...1 guy is selling 2200 hd. & he lost 80 % of his 500 lb. average calf crop...I still got pairs...
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    CURLY CALF SYNDROME in AAA

    This could be bad for all breeds not just the AAA...simmental,maine,short horn,,all breeds http://www.angus.org/aaa_notice.pdf
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    Round 2 Ike

    Well, We let the trailer at around 2:00 pm...we had a MOTEL RESERVED in Winnie just to get out of the trailer. Had a 5 1/2 month old embryo calf in trailer & the dogs. went to motel & they had evacuated & no one notified us & we slept in the seat of the trucks for the storm. Left the trailer &...
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    Catch it Caustic

    Wasn't that the poorest excuse of weather mongering you have ever seen. All the hype of severe weather and flash flood warnings that were put out. As far as I could tell the center of circulation was about 8 - 15 miles east of us, and the winds peaked at aboug 8 mph. We did pick up another...
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    Got to bragg just a little!!!

    The first week of June my granddaughter won the 6 & under barrleracing saddle in her rodeo assoc....she ran a 15.1 in the first run the first day beating all the highschool girls times...not bad to just be 3' 7" & weigh 45 lbs....
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    simbrah calf

    He will be shown @ Beaumont at the South East Texas fair. His full sibling was 2004 champion Simbrah bull in Beaumont..
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    lot of work!!!!!!

    yep, it is nice to have the proper facilities..I been 3 yrs. getting it done. with working in Iraq & only comimg home on 2 week R&R's twice a yr. it seemed slow. Now working 14 on & 14 off I seem to get more done. The chute has been setting in the pasture ruining for the last 5 ys. so I wanted...
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    2008 spring calves

    a couple 3 bull calves ....1st 2 is are 3/4 simbrah..next 1 is purebred simbrah
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    lot of work!!!!!!

    This is a new alley & pens I'm working on in my barn. Man is this a lot of work. We ran cows thru it last night & dewormed & palpated a couple to try it out last night...Worked great just got some finishing up to do...
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