Woke up and decided I want to be a farmer! Went down the road and bought a calf! Life is good!

Pet it give it a name let the kids play with it what could go wrong, not me that cow would die of old age! LOL

Year and a half it will be tasting good. Lol

Wife named him Blackjack. She already said she doesn’t want to butcher him lol.

If he's not banded yet, band him soon. It gets harder when they get bigger.

I have a longhorn cow, Praline, I breed to Angus bulls, 1 heiffer out of her from last year, that's solid black and a few month old black and white steer out of her from this year. She is 7 for 7 on sucessful calving so far.

Keith

I hope you got the milk replacer that he will need for several weeks. As they grow and change their diets and eat more and demand more room one's attitude toward the animal changes as well. Also from a practical aspect being herd animals they do much better in small groups say 2,3 or 4 then alone.

Bryce

Yup! I’m planning on doing that tomorrow. Should be fun lol

I’m collecting the milk from his mom tomorrow, then will pick up milk replacer in the evening. Just googling everything as I go!

Nice, been around cows all my life, looks like u got plenty of grass for him. Tip on banding...make sure u got both of em lol.

Goat milk works really well on calves too, if you have access to goat milk.

Keith

that's awesome and i'm jealous.rebuilding and cleaning my families farm of 100 plus years so the wife and i can be farmers too.getting close to startin to string fence finally but wanted everything done right before we got them.keep us updated.

Wife and I have 22 head of Scottish Highlands, two steers going end of the month.were farming now.

Have you looked into buying hay and pellets for the winter yet? With the weather we've had during hay season it might be hard to find or expensive. He will also need access to water all day during the winter.

Dang hay here is all over we are still green here should be brown, you would think it would be cheap the fields are covered with big round bales it's noticeable. We have been getting rain like it's on a sprinkler system never seen it so green for this long.

Congrat's something productive. Farming/livestock raising is a art & skill.
Good luck & God Love YA

The weather's the opposite here, I haven't mowed my lawn in a month, most of it's dead. Ranchers save a lot of extra bales in case of loss. They don't risk running out of hay and selling their stock. I'm just saying don't wait till last minute to buy hay in case it's hard to find. With the price Texas is paying for semi loads of good hay there is a high demand.

And the Fun begins!!! Should have named it T-Bone LOL!

You run short I can get you the extension office numbers here and maybe get some contacts going it seems like we will have some to spare this year, mowed my lawn about 8 times already so far will need it again this weekend if it dried out! LOL

Thanks Law dog but we won't run short, my dad and I put up 650+ bales for 80 head. Its usually over 900 but the weather isn't cooperating. I put up 150-200 small square alfalfa bales and they are usually sold as fast as I can make them.

Right on! I’m far from ready to have animals, but I live my life by counting the chickens before they hatch. I want to do so many things and have nothing ready lol. Things usually turn out in the end though. I have a small corral for him and I’m in the process of making a pasture. The goats actually are making it for me! I would have animals in the house if I lived in town! Haha!!