The kids stumbled upon a large and prosperous looking beef farm a couple of hours from here. Saturday they took me to see.
Miles of fences, hundreds of animals, an impressive array of feeder wagons. All you knowledgeable ranchers out there, what on earth are these cow? And what are those things? Dairy farmers everywhere want to know.
Looks like Red Angus. Really no beef cows back there? I guess...it makes sense, there are no dairy cows out here to speak of.
ReplyDeletePutman's have some beef cows on his pasture now, both herfords and angus. Noticed them on the way to the gun show.
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Those are bovines.
ReplyDeleteLook red and black angus to me! Beef cows, yeah! Sorry, but you know me and the beef bovine species ;)
ReplyDeleteThey match the bovine beauties just down the road from me...black Angus and red Angus.
ReplyDeleteThe black variety are lots of fun when you drive through open range areas in the dark, it is like they are wearing an invisibility cloak a la Harry Potter. They love standing in the middle of the road.
They are every bit as curious as dairy cows, by the way.
The cattle are crosses - some black and red Angus. I didn't see any white out there, so that probably rules out Hereford. No blonde or brown, so no Charolais or Simmental. Just guessing.
ReplyDeleteThe wagons look like round bale feeders. The round bales have to be dropped in from the top by a tractor with a fork attachment on or instead of the bucket, and the cattle can reach between the bars to get to the bales. Less wastage that way rather than having them lay on the ground.
Dad used round "round bale" feeders - they were built out of tubing, shaped round vertically, access bars at the top and sheet metal skirting at the bottom. No top or bottom. One could set a round bale on the ground and roll one of the feeders over to it and flip it so it ringed the bale.
That dangly thing is called a waddle. An really old time way of marking cows instead of branding them. Anyway, that is what we see around here. The rancher who rents our place ever winter wattles his cows. I think he is the only one in today age. I use to see it all time when I was a kid.
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Thank you all, especially LInda B who explained the dangly things, which were the reason we didn't know right away what they were. lol
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