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rrlund · Feb 20, 2017

I was cleaning feedlots today. One of the feeders that should have been a heifer from the color of the tag,walked up on a pile I had shoved up and it was a bull. I got thinking back and I had put those color tags that I use in my heifers in both of my son's bull calves last year so I could tell them from my bull calves. We usually use three digit tags in his,but I was out. I got wondering where the other one of his was then. I went and looked it up to see what the number was then went and found it. We missed that one too when we castrated. So.....now we've got two of them we'll have to sort off and run through the chute.

Some days.

Adirondack case guy · Feb 20, 2017

You might want to keep them and name them Don and Rich. HeHe. they might turn out to be good sires.
Loren

coshoo · Feb 20, 2017

I did DHIA testing back in the day. One big dairy had the cheapest owner I ever saw- wouldn't buy extra neck chains and tags, so they were always short. Had the herd separated into 3 strings, each string had its own guy in charge. They were always on the lookout for chains and tags that had come off someone else's cow, so they could swipe it and put it on one of theirs. So of course, there was no continuity to the records. I mentioned to the owner what the problem was, but he didn't seem too concerned. None of them milked worth a darn anyhow, I don't know why he bothered with testing them. One time I was there he was feeding them whole corn stalks.

rrlund · Feb 20, 2017

Might want to call them Lucky And Oops.

Eldon (WA) · Feb 20, 2017

(quoted from post at 14:57:04 02/20/17) I was cleaning feedlots today. One of the feeders that should have been a heifer from the color of the tag,walked up on a pile I had shoved up and it was a bull. I got thinking back and I had put those color tags that I use in my heifers in both of my son's bull calves last year so I could tell them from my bull calves. We usually use three digit tags in his,but I was out. I got wondering where the other one of his was then. I went and looked it up to see what the number was then went and found it. We missed that one too when we castrated. So.....now we've got two of them we'll have to sort off and run through the chute.

Some days.

Put them on grass and sell them to the citiots as "all natural, grass fed", probably get twice as much for them LOL!

DoubleR · Feb 20, 2017

I had one a few years ago that missed out on getting clamped. Just kept him on full feed with the others and sent him to the packer. He was about 15 months old and I even took half of him for myself and sold the other half to someone I figured would understand if there was a problem. We couldn't tell any difference in the meat from the grain feed steers we normally eat, it was just as good.

rrlund · Feb 20, 2017

These two belong to the boy though,so they have to be done. I've got a lot of heifers in the feedlot too,so it needs to be done sooner rather than later.

fixerupper · Feb 20, 2017

And the bigger they get the harder they kick.

rrlund · Feb 20, 2017

Ya,I think it's time the boy learned to do this himself. After all,they're his.

Brown Swiss · Feb 20, 2017

The bigger the bull nutz the bigger the supper! Don't invite me.

Dr. Walt · Feb 21, 2017

Hmmm, lets see now . . . .

If Cream comes from a Cow; does Half & Half come half from a Cow and half from a Bull ?

Hmmm!

LOL

:>)

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