Julie! We got COWS!

That only works if you love the movie

Twister like we do...

It's our traditional "Hurricane Movie".

Anyway.

We got COWS!

Introducing Charlie and Lil' Man.

The little white guy is a Charolais (Charlie).

The little dark guy is a Maine Anjou Angus cross (Lil' Man).

Yeah, I know. I don't name my beef.

But these sort of named themselves.

This morning Rod and I ran over to Lakeland,

about 2 hours away, over on the west side of Florida.

It was RAINING (not raining, RAINING) just inches

to the north of us, but we happily were dry.

(But now that we are home... BRING IT!)

It was a nice, uneventful run.

Except for leaving 26 minutes later than planned

so arriving about 30 minutes later than planned...

but we kept them in the loop, so they didn't have

to sit around waiting for us.

(They live 10 miles from the cattle property.)

Rod and Gary headed off into the cow pasture

and I stood and visited with... Gary's wife.

(I didn't realize until after we left we never 

introduced ourselves... lol. I have AWESOME

social skills...)

Before I knew it, Rod had the little boys all

loaded up in our trailer.

And they knocked $25 off Charlie's original

price since he's a little thin.

Cows grow like a teeter totter. They get tall in the hip, then match it in the shoulders. That's why
Man is a little "hip high". Gary says they are each about 4 months old.

We brought 'em home and unloaded them

into their new cow pasture.

 

They seemed happy with their little spot.

Then they wandered over to meet the neighbors.

(The goats are standing on either side of

Man's ears... the donkey is just out of the

picture to the right...)

Our little horse, Buddy, stood by the fence for

a minute to check them out, but CJ and Andy

didn't seem to care one way or the other.

(Of course I had just let them into the "green"

pasture and new grass trumps new neighbors...)

The cattle breed website says both of these breeds

have a potential grown out for males at

... wait for it...

2200 pounds! for a full grown male!

We won't keep them that long.

That's probably age 3.

But they will likely be double the size of

our last little heifers.

The plan... which is always subject to change...

is to grow them out for a year or so and then

take one to butcher and buy 1 replacement calf.

Then six months later we will butcher the

other and get another replacement calf.

We'll continue to leap frog like that.

We have enough people who want meat to

sell a cow and a half.

But not enough to sell two whole cows at a time.

So we are going to give this a try.

Welcome guys!

Eat hardy!