One Fine Acre - 2023 4H Steer Project Update

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They are taking a different route home
Apparently Chicago is not somewhere you want to drive around
 

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Chicago is also somewhere you don't want to drive THROUGH! When we took DD2 to Beloit nearly 4 years ago I was planning to go a bit south of downtown but it was a left exit (which I didn't know), the traffic was :barnieand we went right through downtown :thAs we only had hotel reservations for the trip to Beloit, not the return, my wife said "I've been through Chicago once, don't need to do it again" We went north through Sault Ste Marie Canada and didn't come back into the USA until very far eastern NY. MUCH more pleasant driving than the USA route and the only toll was the one to cross the bridge into CA. All subsequent trips were that route. Of course that route wouldn't make any sense for Maurine and Rachel.

My grandfather said "Chicago is a nice place to be FROM". He was born in the early 1890s and the family moved to So. Cal for his health before he was 10. If he thought it was bad then, imagine how much worse it is now! 1.7 MILLION in 1900 (wow would have guessed a lot less). Now it is 9.4M. Of course in 1900 there were only 170K people in Los Angeles county:ep. Now it is over 10 Million. L.A. county is a good place to be FROM ;) . It was a "mere" 7.2M when I blew that joint in 1979.
 

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I took the second steer to the slaughterhouse a while ago.
It was not exactly planned for today.
I had gotten him to get on the trailer yesterday afternoon for food. I figured once he got on and got fed and was able to come and go we would be good to go when we were going to take him.
Talked to Maurine last night and she was going to call Tim at the slaughterhouse to find out which day would be best.

Well Maurine's friend is helping take care of the animals while she Is out of town. She saw the steer get on the trailer and she went ahead and shut the door on him.
Maurine called Tim and he said "bring him on".
So, I was at work and had to leave to go do that.
At least it is done.

I found out the first steer's hanging weight is 812 lbs. So, if that is 65% of live weight then he was 1249 lbs.

I went into the room where they age them. I wish I had my camera.
 

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How long are they going to age it? The one we took in February hung for 14 days and the processor said would have like longer but needed the space.
 

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I don't know if you can tell how tight those white pants are on Rachel. I think this may be her last time she can use them.
Will let Little Bit have them if she wants them.
You will probably have to hem them.
 

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I took the second steer to the slaughterhouse a while ago.
It was not exactly planned for today.
I had gotten him to get on the trailer yesterday afternoon for food. I figured once he got on and got fed and was able to come and go we would be good to go when we were going to take him.
Talked to Maurine last night and she was going to call Tim at the slaughterhouse to find out which day would be best.

Well Maurine's friend is helping take care of the animals while she Is out of town. She saw the steer get on the trailer and she went ahead and shut the door on him.
Maurine called Tim and he said "bring him on".
So, I was at work and had to leave to go do that.
At least it is done.

I found out the first steer's hanging weight is 812 lbs. So, if that is 65% of live weight then he was 1249 lbs.

I went into the room where they age them. I wish I had my camera.
It's an interesting room. Our friends have one with their processing area.
 

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Girls got home from Madison Wed at 2:30 am. Drove through a lot of bad weather on the way home.
@Hens and Roos Maurine said that Madison is a beautiful city, but what's up with all of the bicycles? She said she had never seen so many people riding bikes in her entire life. And some are fairly aggressive and feel they have the right of way even if you have the green light, they will just keep on trucking.
 

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Girls got home from Madison Wed at 2:30 am. Drove through a lot of bad weather on the way home.
@Hens and Roos Maurine said that Madison is a beautiful city, but what's up with all of the bicycles? She said she had never seen so many people riding bikes in her entire life. And some are fairly aggressive and feel they have the right of way even if you have the green light, they will just keep on trucking.

Glad to hear they made it home safely, we even feel that bicycles, walkers and drivers are aggressive here-especially the closer to campus and downtown you get!! Madison really promotes biking-they have lots of red bicycles that people can rent to ride around the city.
 

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