Well I for one like cows, especially the kind that come wrapped in butchers paper. Really, I always had cows, and was brought up with cattle and as a youngin also did my fair share of helping my grandfather with a dairy operation. Once I got my property here, I built decent fences, catch pens, made one hell of a heavy duty automatic headcatch and squeeze chute. As much as I thought I still liked fooking wih them, the best part was when the last one left here back right before the Kuwait Conflict and Iraq kicked off.
Now all we do is raise a calf or two to butcher weight for our deepfreeze. Tore down all the cattle related items, and mainly dabble with goats. I like animals with built in handles such as a goat has (horns), easy to handle, easy keepers, and I would shudder to think having to feed a large herd up there n Canada. It was a chore in Alabama with our so called winters.
Oh by the way are your cows stump broke? ;-) Around this part of the country a Redneck will pay big $$ for stump broke cows! Kidding of course.
At one time I was doing all right with cattle. Had two Texas Longhorns (black and white in color) that I used to use to breed a dairy farmers first time heifer holsteins with. I would get all the bull calves, and we would split the heifers. Now he AI's the first timers. Around here Simbra, Bramah and Santa Gertrudis are the money makers, but the black with white face do pretty good at the stock yards . Herfords and Angus and Charolais are so so, usually bring far less than the others do. Right now bottle babies are going for 12 to 15 dollars each!
