Checkerboard Magnums Promise
His blood typing finally came in so he can go to Dependabul in ten days to be drawn. Then we may sell some semen on him if anyone is interested in using him. He is quite well bred, with a lot of milk and type on the dam. Plus we can AI our own Holstein heifers and get smaller calves, which are much more valuable for sale than the traditional Jersey cross calves.
The other bull we did blood work on turned out not to be what he was sold to us as. We decided to cut our losses as we are sick of waiting for his former owner to find the needed paperwork and for new papers maybe (and maybe not) to be issued. Thus the vet performed the necessary surgery to turn him into a steer and he is now destined for the freezer. We didn't pay a lot for him, but it cost me ninety bucks to blood type him and that will be a total loss. Oh, well, we are out of beef and Herman, the beef steer I was already raising, has a way to go yet.
Promise's pedigree, Sire: Checkerboard Magnum
Dam: Horizon Peggy Sue EXP
Paternal Grandsire:Meriville Peerless
Maternal Grandsire: Three Springs Sundance
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"Milking" Shorthorn bull always makes me smile!
That's a bummer about the other bull. It seems that many people are willing to walk away from an obligation -- such as making that right with the bull, or paying the last month's rent, or hitting a car in a parking lot. For those of us with the loss, it's often not worth our time, money, or aggravation to go after them.
Whatever happened to character??
NW, Hah! I never caught that! But he is, really he is...it just sounds odd. lol
The people who sold the bull to us were really pretty nice, although they certainly could have made more of an effort to keep us informed of what was going on. It was a mistake anyone could make I guess....probably actually made by the AI breeder. It's just that they house cows at a lot of farms out of their direct control. Wish I hadn't bought him though. I guess as I said, I don't resent the purchase price, just the $90 for blood-typing, which included their cow and finding their mistake. Oh, well, it is just how things go. You should hear what Alan brings home from school about PIG. Now THAT would curl your hair!
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