Last year I had sold a guy 10 black pairs. The heifers were very nice and gentle; however, the one mother had a new calf and she didn’t like his grown daughter getting close to that calf so the heifer took after her.
She ran around the hay feeder grabbing it along the way and pulled a muscle in her shoulder. Now this year he comes in for breakfast and announces that I sold him a lesbian cow. He said she is nursing another cow. Only in small town with us hicks in the sticks. And often we have to make our own humor.
It is going to be very interesting as it seems there are many heifers being bred for cows. I think many ranchers and grass buyers have seen what some young pairs are bringing and they have decided to try to cash in on that market too. The only problem is that is six months to a year away. We also have a very big area that is dry. The weather can make or break the market. It could also be dry and force some to sell their cows then start raining and that same rancher needing to buy back. Time will tell. In the dry area they may not be saving heifers to breed.
There are quite a few middle aged and older cows going to the feedlot with many feeding them 10 days or more. When feed is cheap it allows the cattleman with more options. And all goes good until it doesn’t. Plus, with a many feedlots feeding their cattle to huge weights before they slaughter them there may be more demand for these fat cows out of the feedlot often referred to as a white fat cow.
How corrupt is Congress? You can get 70 senators to approve sending American tax dollars to Ukraine but you can’t get 51 senators to approve passing election integrity laws.
Please pray for my son who had to take out the trash when he just took the trash out yesterday and he is tired.
I feel sorry for parents these days. Now you have to explain the birds and the bees. The bees and the bees. The birds and the birds. And the birds that use to be bees. And the bees that use to be birds. And the birds that look like bees. Plus, bees that look like birds, but still have a stinger.
Editor’s note: The views expressed here are the author’s own and do not represent the view of High Plains Journal. Jerry Nine, Woodward, Oklahoma, is a lifetime cattleman and grew up on his family’s ranch near Slapout, Oklahoma.
