tomgobbler

LAst year I posted some calves but waited to long , had lots of people say they wanted them but then never showed up.... so this year I'm trying something different..... my calves are starting to hit the ground, i have 8 on the ground now, and another 10 or so to come anyday.... these are out of a very nice black angus bull, the bulls mother was registered, we just never registered him. but he is a great bull.... about half my calves have black angus mothers and the other half have red herford mothers.... all are great calves.... no junk , no sale barn, all raised at my place in taylor.... all mothers and bull on sight.... we give them there vaccine shot at around a month old, and that is the only thing we give them..... this is what I am proposing.... the calves will sale around OCT 1st when I wean them for $800.00 with a $400.00 deposit you can secure your calf, I will keep it on the mother and raise it from now until as close to Oct. 1st as you can make arrangements to come get it. it will weigh in the neighborhood of 500-600 lbs..... then you can come pick out the one you want and pay the remaining $400.00 ..... that way I know for sure how many I have sold..... you can then take it home and finish it off the way you want.... corn/grain/grass/alfalfa/beer ..... what ever.... keep it through the fall/winter and then butcher it when it is to the weight and size you want..... this way it will also give you the next 6 months to secure a place to keep it, fix fence get pasture ready or what ever.... anyway here is a sample of calves I already have on the ground.... if your interested in raising your own beef, and want to secure a calf now, drop me a line, thanks tommy

1st pic is my bull w calves laying in tbe grass around him, his mother is registered , we never did tbe paperwork on him .

az killer - yes this was started in march, so these are this years calves. they are looking great and on my grass pasture now and growing good. the original pic was the first few I got on the ground. Edge - ill get some updated pic tomorrow when I get off work, they are doing really well.... I've got I think 11 steers and 7 heifers.... solid black, some white face, a few reds..... all out of my black angus bull..... will get ya some pic tomorrow thnks

18 now

That was tbe next question what kind of hinges you used on tbe back side of it .,, Yea my grandads I carved hunting scenes into it w a Dremel tool , making it personal like you say to fit the man . You do awesome work as always !

Nice work Jeff , !! Does tbe lid open all as one or did you split it so tbe top 1/3 openes separately? Dad & I have built a few very similar , made the top one piece then cut it in two pieces so just 1/3 opened up for tbe viewing , but after cutting it sometimes doesn't want to line up as well , i made my granddads w elk antler handles , & then we built one with stirrup handles . I like your cinch closers alot , mind if I "borrow" your idea on that ? Sorry for your loss brother !

3 of us brothers Took advantage of a an extra day off work to take part of tbe kids & dad & rode part of the baldy trail up to the look out . If you haven't taken the time lately to get your family together , there's no time like now . You won't regret it .

Bill - what I call tbe lookout is about 1/2 way up , the trail tops out in a really rocky point were you can see for miles .... It's not the top .... A few days latter my dad took a couple of my boys & went back & rode about 3/4 of the way but then the blow downs were so terrible they got tired of fighting them & finally just turned around , the FS hadn't maintained that upper half since the winter or who knows when .

Craigk - if your dream is to let them ride a horse come by the house & ill take them for I ride , If its to own horses I got 3 ill sale ya

calves are looking good, 17 to choose from at the moment. home grown beef is the better by far.

first NM antelope tag !

a pair of good rubber irrigation boots and he can put a toe on one end of the skull and hold it down against the driveway and not have to hold it in his hand... plus keeps the socks and shoes dry..... also a good rubber apron keeps all the brains and tissue of his clothes.... the aprons are $15 and well worth it.... just be careful not to hit the boot with the washer on full stream it will create a hole in the boot....

if you kept feeding it good, then no it would not be "tough" the next fall it would be great eating, because it would be that much bigger, and marbled out that much more.... the key would be the feed..... to many people feed just enough to keep it alive if that makes since, but to add weight and marbling and get them nice and fat you have to feed them good.... so an extra year of good feed and it would be amazing dinner fair .... and would probably even be better.... the first year they grow bone..... the second year it would be all weight and thickness.... most home growers butcher at the year or year and half mark do to expense.... and don't get me wrong they turn out great.... but that extra 6-8 months on the back end is when they don't grow "up" as much but start filling out....so if you keep them that extra time, that's when you really get to see the weight put on....

first come first choice on calves.... so yes take your pick on the gender..... yes all the bull calves will be castrated..... we do that when they are a month old or so.... yes I think 2 calves do better then one by themselves..... I typed a whole page on this in the fall when I posted the other I had for sale, on why I think that they do, you could look it up. but when two are together they seem to do better then one...... just my experience.... these calves will stay on there mother tell fall, then weaned then you just finish how you want them done.... if you've never had home grown beef your missing out..... but be warned if you ever have it , you wont want to go back

i'm pretty sure they are due right now, they are dawing feb 1st, I thnk you better call tomorrow and get app in.

was down javelina hunting a few years back , and came across a really nice black angus calf caught in the fence, bauling for his momma, was surely going to be coyote, bobcat, or lion food by morning, we cut it loose and went on about our business, hope the rancher appreciated it

anyone interested in some beef calves to finish out . I've got over a dozen calves..... and need to get rid of some..... they are still on there mothers on pasture, need to get them off of the mommas so mommas have time to recoup for this springs crop of babbies..... these are very nice calves NOT sale barn, runts, orphans or anything of the kind, these are raised by me, from my cows they get a vaccination shot when they are a few weeks old, other then that NO growth or hormone shots. all are from a great black angus bull who's mother was registered. about 3/4 are form black angus cows, the others are crosses from herford cows with my black angus bull. ALL are great calves, and all born this spring, mostly in march.... giver r take 3 weeks ..... they will be in the 550-600 pnd range for a few of the latter ones maybe a tad smaller and the earliest big steers maybe a tad over..... I do NOT have a scale.... take them and finish them the way you want on grass or corn/grain they are / will make excellent beef ...... $800 a piece..... come pick out the one you want.

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i'm located in taylor, and yes in my experience they do better with a companion, I have no idea if goat, sheep , hogs etc... are the same, but I know of about 10 different people here in town that buy them when they are little ( 200-300) and all of them them raise 2 together.... I don't know why... but they just seem to do better, ( not that you cant raise one on it's own ) as far as acreage, IF your are grain / corn finishing them then you don't want a very big place, you want a smaller pen, so they don't have to walk very far, and walk off what you are putting in them, you want them to have water, and all they can eat and not run around much.... if you are letting them grow by just pasture and not feeding them, then I really don't know how big a place you'de need, I have about 20 mother cows and a bull, but I have grass/alfalfa fields I rotate them through as well as state lease land.... but you want them on good grass and not eating weeds, sage brush, etc.... you want them on the best feed you can get them on to make them taste the best and gain the most... also they all have already been casturated, we do that when they are about a month old, there are NO bulls, just heifers and steers... I think I answered your questions... thanks

how tall is he? been around the arena much? carried flags? ever bringing a trailer up to the taylor area..... I've got several kids that would put him to use.

that's a new "form" with the popular form companies, every year they try to come up with the newest and latest for taxidermist to add things to provide to there customers, and this is one of the newest things that they have come up with and the form like that comes in many species now, another option " money maker" the form companies/designers have started providing as an option for your trophies.....

I've got a youth model 243, nice short stock, fits kids great, your welcome to borrow it for her hunt.

ive got a brand new pair of kenetrek boots, they have been warn around the house a few times trying to decide if they were going to fit, but they are to small. they are $425 at sportsman warehouse plus tax. i'de take $375.00 thanks

Just in time for turkey season . My 15 year old sons goulds, my 5 bearded Merriams , both posing for the attention of a smoke phase hen . No idea why it turned the last 2 sideways .

yea the goulds is banded with a NM band....... pretty cool.......to bad NM game and fish turkey biologist would never return my calls to get the history behind it... my son shot it with his bow at 34 yards...... there are 5 color phases of turkey , the 1- regular "normal " color, 2-albino - very rare for true albino, 3- melinistic ( black )4- the smoke/grey, and 5- erytristic ( red phase) ..... I've seen 4 of the smoke-grey phase.... 2 in az and 2 in NM, 1 gobbler and 3 hens..... yea jeff that jackalope has been sitting on the shop bench waiting for ya...