Straw Hat Kikos

[CochinBrahmaLover=)]

Heck YES being called a real cowboy is a compliment!!!!!

Steers too...LOL...sounds like you'll have a fun day!

haha

Yes, I love her steers. That's what I really want, cattle. I'm hoping within 7 years I will have a small herd of cattle. That's my goal.

I get to see her steers almost every other weekend. Sometimes longer though. She raises Holstein steers for slaughter. She used to show Holsteins, Black Angus, and Charolais. Now she just raises these guys for meat.

You said yourself that there were a bunch of cattle just waiting to be in the auction....
Why not just buy one of them... sure its cheap... I mean, c'mon, cattle loves goats, eh?
As for the biting flies problem, do you have guineas?Guineas will do wonders. You just have to train them to not sleep in the trees, and to not try and find old home if their full grown. Otherwise they will eat the crap outta flies. Only prob is if one of them wants keets, you'll end up with like 10 more guineas, depending on how many live... xD.
You could just take one of those... doubt she'll notice....

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

You said yourself that there were a bunch of cattle just waiting to be in the auction....
Why not just buy one of them... sure its cheap... I mean, c'mon, cattle loves goats, eh?
As for the biting flies problem, do you have guineas?Guineas will do wonders. You just have to train them to not sleep in the trees, and to not try and find old home if their full grown. Otherwise they will eat the crap outta flies. Only prob is if one of them wants keets, you'll end up with like 10 more guineas, depending on how many live... xD.
You could just take one of those... doubt she'll notice....

Cattle is expensive. These are not all high quality cattle and even them are 1000$ for a cow. So they are expensive no matter what and I would want good cattle, not junk. And I don't have the room. haha

No we do not. Nor will we get some. Our neighbor hates them and I use his land so I'm not going to make him mad. They sound horrible too. Our turkeys sleep in the trees, about 30+ feet up. So do many of our chickens. The turkeys also sleep on the coop. So that doesn't bother me there. And we have so many chickens that go broody somewhere in the woods then 3 weeks later they show up with 10 chicks. We had 60+ hatch in three days earlier in the summer. Bad chickens.

 

[CochinBrahmaLover=)]

You said yourself that there were a bunch of cattle just waiting to be in the auction....
Why not just buy one of them... sure its cheap... I mean, c'mon, cattle loves goats, eh?
As for the biting flies problem, do you have guineas?Guineas will do wonders. You just have to train them to not sleep in the trees, and to not try and find old home if their full grown. Otherwise they will eat the crap outta flies. Only prob is if one of them wants keets, you'll end up with like 10 more guineas, depending on how many live... xD.
You could just take one of those... doubt she'll notice....

Cattle is expensive. These are not all high quality cattle and even them are 1000$ for a cow. So they are expensive no matter what and I would want good cattle, not junk. And I don't have the room. haha

No we do not. Nor will we get some. Our neighbor hates them and I use his land so I'm not going to make him mad. They sound horrible too. Our turkeys sleep in the trees, about 30+ feet up. So do many of our chickens. The turkeys also sleep on the coop. So that doesn't bother me there. And we have so many chickens that go broody somewhere in the woods then 3 weeks later they show up with 10 chicks. We had 60+ hatch in three days earlier in the summer. Bad chickens.

LOL ! Lucky. I had 2 chickens go broody , both hatched one chick but only one manged to keep hers alive
Ah, I see. I loved 'da one we had. Might get some in spring if the feed store gets them,. they had BEAUTIFUL colors !!! (pied, lavender, typical color,)

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

I actually like the look of them and I love how the survive. (I like animals that don't need much, if any, care.)

 

[CochinBrahmaLover=)]

I've been told you're lucky if you get 10 guineas and end up with 3 in the end They aren't the smartest creatures, IMO, but I love 'em.

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Today was fun. I went to Mrs. B's house and helped her out. I got to clean out some stuff in her barn, help worm, trim and give shots to all her goats. I also fed the steers and hung with them for a little bit. 701 loves to put his tongue around your hand and smell/lick it. lol I can not wait until I get some cattle one day. So we cleaned the barn which took a few hours. Threw a bunch of stuff away and sorted all kinds of animal stuff she had. I fed the steers and messed with them a bit, as I already said. She then told me to put on some flee and tick stuff on the dogs that you put between their shoulders. Really? She has 5 great Pyrs and none know me well. Well except for the one. She's a love. But the rest including the male don't know me. And Bo (the male) barks at me. Well in the end I did get them all done. I do have to say that you get a weird feeling when you go to do something to a large dog that doesn't know you and it doesn't really want you to do it. I got all them but not the male. He did later come up to me but I didn't have any of the stuff on me. Then we did the hooves which were very good. She has not wormed her Boers or trimmed their hooves in over a year. Well they all had good eyes but she still wanted them wormed. If it were up to me I wouldn't have even trimmed their hooves but she also wanted them done. They all got their CDT shots too.

She gave me a bunch of the green band for banding because she had hundreds and doesn't need them. So I have 100 of them which should hold me for like the next 1000 years. lol I also got 5 different colors of livestock markers. So I got to see my favorite steers and hang out with Mrs. B which is always great.

It rained here all day. Poured hard sometimes too. So it's wet again but the bright side is that it shouldn't rain for a while again. Thank goodness.

Oh and Moses decided that the trees were greener on the other side and somehow, and I have no idea how he did it, but he got his head thru the fence. He tried to pull it back thru and he ripped part of his horn. Right at the base of it where it attaches to his head. He has about 3 inches of horn coming out from his head, per horn. He cut parallel to his head and cut about one inch. It's rather hard to explain but he cut right along his head into his horn. So about one inch of horn that was attached to his head is cut where it almost looks like someone cut it or sawed it. He was bleeding a little bit but not much and I put some Iodine on it. I tossed him back and he seems to be doing fine. I'll be keeping an eye on it but I think it'll attach back and everything will be good. The fence had to be cut to get his head out. I really have no idea how he put his head thru it. His horns are to wide and go out too much. But he's good now.


I know there is something I'm missing and everytime I remember what I was going to say, my though runs away. I hate that.

 

[CochinBrahmaLover=)]

Poor Moses (His hairdo somehow didnt get cut off, did it??? lol ), but glad you had fun !!! I love cattle, their so adorable. Calves esp. Big ol' brown eyes....

 

[Pearce Pastures]

Yeah, I know that big-dog-who-doesn't-know-me feeling. Whenever my cousin comes, he has his boys Bo and Tristan, both big big boys who are not usually around kids and other animals (especially Tristan who is a Rhodesian Ridgeback and a little testy and jumpy after he got lost by a border and hit by a car while my cousin was on his honeymoon).

Poor Moses! How long does a horn take to grow back?

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Yeah, I know that big-dog-who-doesn't-know-me feeling. Whenever my cousin comes, he has his boys Bo and Tristan, both big big boys who are not usually around kids and other animals (especially Tristan who is a Rhodesian Ridgeback and a little testy and jumpy after he got lost by a border and hit by a car while my cousin was on his honeymoon).

Poor Moses! How long does a horn take to grow back?

That's a shame he is like that now. I love the Rhodesian Ridgeback!! I've always thought they were a very amazing dog.

I really don't know. He'll be fine even if it doesn't fully seal back up but I think it will. I would say a couple weeks or months but I really have no idea. I'll be keeping an eye on it and recording how long it takes to heal. I may try and get a picture and post it but I don't know if I can. It may be hard to see.

 

[bonbean01]

Poor Moses...I've come to quite like him from your journal, and totally love his hair-do!!! Hope he heals well!!!

And I'm glad you posted today...was kind of worried that you might get carried away with those steers and get hurt! Big dogs that don't know you can be a biggee!!!! Glad no one ate you!