New cows!

[jswordy]

Took delivery on these fat and happy bred heifers the other day.



The business end ... steaks!

 

[Brew and Wine Supply]

A number of things go through my mind when I see those, if you can milk them....cheese. the other part has to do with a grill....

 

[jswordy]

They are beef cattle.

 

[Brew and Wine Supply]

Thats what I was thinking..

 

[winointraining]

Did you name them Sir Loin and Porter House?

 

[pjd]

Nice Angus there Jim! Tell us when you are grilling, I will bring the wine!

 

[Runningwolf]

Jim I like the way you think!

 

[jswordy]

LOL ... it's a cow-calf operation, so these cows are safe as long as they regularly produce a calf. The calves go off to the sale barn and then feedlot, so they eventually aren't so safe. Prices are up. There's a bit of money walking around in those 3.

pjd, they are majority Angus with some Limousin. It's that Continental bloodline that adds the desirable fleshiness to the British breed.

 

[Duster]

Healthy looking girls Jim.
I spent many years tending cattle. My father had them till the day he passed. There was a short stent of time that I moved out only to find myself back at the farm daily helping him in his elder years.
\Brings back some not so distant memories.

 

[jswordy]

Healthy looking girls Jim.
I spent many years tending cattle. My father had them till the day he passed. There was a short stent of time that I moved out only to find myself back at the farm daily helping him in his elder years.
\Brings back some not so distant memories.

Been farming cows and goats on my own place for 23 years now. I went all goats there for awhile but in recent years have gotten out of that racket and back into cattle. My herd has bloodlines from my FIL's herd. He's been gone 17 years now. Taught me about all I know on farming, including how to squeeze a penny til ol Abe screams. These new ones are from my sis-in-law, who has to sell her herd and move off the place that we are soon to auction. So it's all from the family somehow except the bull, who I got young for a real good price from a friend.

Sorry about the appearance of that back pasture. There were 4 deer hiding their fawns in that tall grass and brush last fall, so I left it uncut.

 

[FABulousWines]

I grew up in rural Pennsylvania. You couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting a cow. Mostly milk producing Jerseys. I am pretty sure PA is in the top 10 for milk producers in the US. God I miss the country. Thanks for sharing. They're beautes!

 

[olusteebus]

Do you pair your beef with your wine or pair your wine with your beef?

 

[Kraffty]

I thought all non california cows looked like this in the winter.
Mike

 

[jswordy]

I grew up in rural Pennsylvania. You couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting a cow. Mostly milk producing Jerseys. I am pretty sure PA is in the top 10 for milk producers in the US. God I miss the country. Thanks for sharing. They're beautes!

There are nearly 4 cows for every human in my county. TN is one of the top beef cattle states. I think it's ninth. My FIL was a dairyman in Connecticut before he sold out to a developer and bought his place down here in 1968. Then he "retired" to beef cattle. That really IS a retirement if you are used to the strenuous life of a dairyman.

FIL was one of the last of a now nearly extinct breed - the legit full-time farmer, who had no other job than farming and neither did his wife. That is a completely different way of life. I used to say he had only 4 hours on his clock - spring, summer, fall and winter. You barely find those types anymore, and if you do, they are running huge corporate farms.