tomgobbler

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...

Congrats to you and Cole both that is an awesome deal . Now if you'll just give up teaching too you'll have all kinds of time :) just teasing, they need good teachers. took my oldest down to a bull riding a few weeks ago and watched him win his first bull riding buckle, not quite like a state championship, but too see your kids grow up and see there accomplishment's is about as good as it gets.

anyone have an extra cape or two in the freezer they want to part with? have a customer that went to mexico came back with a nice buck but no cape. thanks tommy

10 will be plenty enough , ROUGHLY 60% will be hanging weight and 60% of that will be wrapped meet depending on how fat, how much trim you take off, debone etc.... for easy math 1000 lb animal hanging will be 600, take home 360 lbs.... i'de expect from a bison the yield would be a little less then the 60%.....

were ya located ? i'de take them if the trip wasn't a killer

do you guys have a "golden fan" package? or was that just something we locally did/came up with when we did the banquets here, I was on the committee for about 5 years then we quite doing them ..... didn't know if the golden fan was a standard thing that the banquets had or just something we came up with. thanks

I've got a pair of kentrek hardscrabble hunting/hiking boots. size 8M these are awesome boots, will keep your feet dry on those wet rainy mornings! they are brand new, Only wore them one time around the house to see how they fit.... they are a little small, so I need to sale them and get a bigger pair. they are $409.99 plus tax at sportsmans right now. save about $70 and get these at $400.00

ide take her, if you were closer to the taylor area, or ever make trips up this way with your trailer, I don't know when ide get down that way, let me know if you do.....she'd go good with my other 20 head. that calf isn't from the same herford bull is it? looks like its daddy is angus. either way i'de be interested. I have one looks just like her, and the funny thing is for the last 6 years with the same black angus bull she has had a different color of calf, white, , black, red, mouse color and this year a tan color....

any tried to putin for buffalo and noticed that in the printed regs there is a hunt number 7021, but in the on line sytem when you try to choose hunt numbers it SKIPS this number it has 7020 and 7022, BUT NOT the 7021......

Well my son earned his Eagle Scout , so been thinking of something cool to do so this is what I came up with .bought A Henry lever 22 & bought these 3 "coins " one is the Eagle Scout the other two are the scout law & oath , routered out the stock epoxied them in , completely sanded down & refinished the stock & put it all back together . The pictures don't do it justice , this finish really popped out the wood grain , it's really pretty , I like it better then the original ... His uncles & grandparents went in & had this knife made for him . What yawl think ?

to make them stronger ( if you think it needs it) you can take thin super glue and put on the inside part, were it is pourish.... the glue will fill in all the pores, bonding the hole thing together very well, it dries clear. you can then take your drimel and touch up as needed, it will also make it smoother against the finger while wearing it.

nice work jeff, I built my grandfathers a few yeas back, and did all elk antlers for the handles, and I carved "scenes" in the front of it with a dremel tool. it turned out really nice I thought, I just had to make sure the fiberglass "case" would fit over it, and that was it...... one thing to keep in mind is the lid depth, we lined his with some kind of white satin cloth ( I cant remember exactly now ) but anyway when they closed the lid ( after putting him in ) and then went to open it for the viewing that night, the "makeup" had rubbed off a little on the lid cloth because the lid wasn't as deep as some.... so it had some smugges on it.... so was one thing I hadn't thought about,...... anyway nice job....

my son is just finishing his eagle scout project and will have all the paper work done here shortly was thinkning of getting him a Golden boy and having it engraved, anyone know the best place,price to get one or have one they want to part with? shoot me a price thanks tommy