Beef Calf 2024

[Peanut]

Calf won’t be here until next week. In the mean time I needed to do some bush hogging along with some fence and gate repairs. I bushhog under these big pecan trees every fall anyway. Makes picking them up easier, looks like a good pecan crop this year, 1st pic.

Next pics, several years ago I got half of this gate built just before we sold the herd to my grt nephew. I set both gate posts in quickcrete. I then used a 10x6ft chainlink fence panel as a temp gate for half the span. I thought the kid would finish it. He never did anything so… I’ll finish it now.

The 10ft gate I bought today had a dent and a few nicks so I got a discount. I knew I had plenty of rustoleum in the shop. Went ahead and touched up the old gate while I was painting.

 

[Peanut]

After the calf and I get acquainted I'll turn him up in this field to graze, plenty of grass just waiting for him.

Some grass pictures taken today for @Mountain trapper . Still plenty of graze here until November unless we get an early frost. This is the field where the hay was cut. You can just make out the rolls behind a few small trees in the last pic. Taken from the opposite side of the very first pic above in the OP.

 

[Patchouli]

@Peanut How will pupper dog do with having the calf around? How old is the calf ? (How big?)

 

[Peanut]

@Peanut How will pupper dog do with having the calf around? How old is the calf ? (How big?)

The pup does fine, I trained to help me herd cows. The first year I had this pup my grt nephew still had cattle here.

The calf is about 4months old, haven't seen him yet so don't know how big he is.

 

[Pearl]

@Peanut How will pupper dog do with having the calf around? How old is the calf ? (How big?)

He's busy getting his picture taken, no time for calves!!

 

[Peanut]

Another morning, another set of clothes. 95F at the shop without a breeze blowing. It was sure hot in the corral. I could’ve squeezed water out of my socks when I got done.

I bushhogged it saturday but had to cut all the perilla around the edges today. Perilla is very toxic to livestock, will kill cattle! So I put the metal blade on the weedeater and cut weeds for a couple hours. Could do a little trimming with the chainsaw but the toxic plants are gone so I’ll leave as is.

In the spring my cousin is going to demolish it and build a new one from scratch. Dad built it in the 80’s, he and I rebuilt it twice since 2000… time for a new corral. Even though it’s on it’s last legs it’s ready for the angus calf. He’ll be fine under the little shed.

If needed I could keep him in there all winter, just add feed and water. But I want him on pasture grass asap. As soon as I get him trained to come when I call I’ll turn him out on good grass.

 

[Mountain trapper]

After the calf and I get acquainted I'll turn him up in this field to graze, plenty of grass just waiting for him.

Some grass pictures taken today for @Mountain trapper . Still plenty of graze here until November unless we get an early frost. This is the field where the hay was cut. You can just make out the rolls behind a few small trees in the last pic. Taken from the opposite side of the very first pic above in the OP.

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Nice green grass! Ours looks like that in early spring, around May, June and July. Now it's all gone. We supplement the dry grass with a few tubs of Vitaliks.