re: Anybody here in the cattle business?

You sound like you have 80 going on yearling calves that need weaning to me. If so break the place up into 3 sections, one field to rotate or plant in rye grass. If it's a 100 acres of pasture you are in good shape until next spring.

Your rich guy's operation sounds very similar to the one I know. If so, you strung out far and wide.

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Your rich guy's operation sounds very similar to the one I know. If so, you strung out far and wide.

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I gave small incorrect details to try and throw off people that might know who I am and who I work for. Wouldn't want him to see anything I put on here about this. But I'm pretty sure the rich guy operation you are talking about is the same one. It is a strung out operation.

Not saying it's the right answer but what I did with all my replacement heifer calves: Buy a truck load of cheap mill feed ( cotton seed, bean, and corn). Call em up in the pen twice a day, after all are in shut the gates and feed em a couple wheel barrows while walking through em. Key is shut the gate so they have to be around you and each other, after a month they should be gentle around you and with themselves. That high dollar pellet stuff is for feeder cattle type daily gain numbers, you want to stock em out healthy enough to shine for a cow calf producer. I would be more likely to buy gentle well built cattle for my operation, rather than a bunch of fat pigs running through the cross fences. I never bid on a fat bull, never will.

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The problem is I'm left in the dark on his plans.

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I can understand your frustration here. I could not and would not be in business with a partner and not have goals. They can always be amended but HAVE to be present.

It's not a cow/calf operation, more of a feedlot scenario, as someone stated earlier, right?

If those bulls are of weaning age you may need a bloodless castrator unless you cut the sack and yank the nuts out. Going to stress them more though. I would not plan to sell them too soon after castrating cause they will lose wt, initially.

Here's a bloodless castestor for larger bulls with scrotums that won't fit in those tiny bands.
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Ultra Black is trademarked line of Brangus cattle by Cow Creek Ranch out of AL. Not a recognized cross breed by any association even though it is recognized as a cross in commercial operations.

Brangus is what is known as brahman/Angus.

If money, feed and grass is no object then the sky is the limit. You can make cattle as good as you want them. Hope you have a veterinarian on staff for his input. Operation more than likely a good tax write off for owner.

It is definitely a write off here. But I would feel a lot more comfortable if what I'm responsible doesn't end up as a significant loss. No vet on staff. I'm the staff plus one person I just convinced to pretty much consult me with the cattle end. In fact, yesterday evening I had to pen up one of the heifers and give her a shot.