The second pic is of the area that will become my garden space, Lord willin' and the creek don't rise.
Chicken boy, yes those are cows in the first pic. We lease the pasture to a neighboring farmer. We won't have time to raise any cattle ourselves until my SO retires in 2 years. Then we plan to raise heifers.Chicken_Boy said:
So pretty.
What are heifers??????sgtsheart said:Chicken boy, yes those are cows in the first pic. We lease the pasture to a neighboring farmer. We won't have time to raise any cattle ourselves until my SO retires in 2 years. Then we plan to raise heifers.Chicken_Boy said:
As for the green grass, that's what the cows did.
Thanks for the compliments.
Young female cows. There's several different versions on raising cows. You can keep cows and a few bulls and then sell off the babies once they are born...that's what the farmer that leases our pastures does and I hate it! For three days immediately after they take the calves from the mamas the mamas bawl non-stop, and I do mean non-stop. You can't hear yourself think around here when that is going on. Or, you can raise heifers only. Get calves at the auctions just weaned and then you get the fun of playing with em while you raise them to market size. Then you sell them off after their first breeding, but before they've given birth. Quieter that way, but you have some trouble with the bulls fighting when the heifers go into season. Actually the ones here don't fight enough to hurt each other and it's funny watching the young bulls trying to show who's the big guy on campus.Chicken_Boy said:What are heifers??????sgtsheart said:Chicken boy, yes those are cows in the first pic. We lease the pasture to a neighboring farmer. We won't have time to raise any cattle ourselves until my SO retires in 2 years. Then we plan to raise heifers.Chicken_Boy said:
As for the green grass, that's what the cows did.
Thanks for the compliments.
