Sudokuaholics Anonymous 7

Hi Rayray, glad you found us!

I think I know what went wrong with my post with the error message. I had an equals sign in it, near the word comment and it thought I was trying to hack or something... At least that's what it looks like since the error went away when I got rid of the equals sign..

All natural breedings, Suzy. That's close to the maximum he can handle. I'm thinking now of buying 2 bred cows and a calf at this upcoming sale. If either of the cows has a bull calf, I can keep him as a second bull. If both have heifers, I'll be ecstatic, and can either AI some girls or buy a second bull.

It sounds like he had 'fun' this season!

I am curious about why you want to buy a calf when you have 40. I'm assuming it's something to do with breeding, genetics and all of that??

Mine are "commercial cattle"... high percentage Red Angus crosses, and only a few purebreds. I'm looking at top quality purebreds. Rede is too good a bull to not have him contribute to the breed.

I get it! Where do you sell your calves? Are they sold for meat? Milk? Showing my ignorance here because it seems that the offspring of a good bull wouldn't go for either of those things, but my limited knowledge of the cattle industry can't come up with anything other than those (or making more cattle of course!)

Morning SA7, looks like you have all gone.
Wonder how long Rola and Rena stayed up last night chatting?

The reason for existence for beef cattle is beef. That is the bottom line. The best purebred breeders will have their cattle ultrasounded to actually get meat measurements, such as ribeye area, marbling and backfat. (the first 2 are good, the last bad) If you don't ultrasound (done only for breeders, you rely on carcass data like we do. Since we retain ownership on our cattle all the way to the processing plant, when our calves are butchered, the processor sends us about 10 or more different measurements on each animal, as well as the quality grade. We are at the point where 90% of our calves grade Choice. That's REALLY good. We're hoping Rede's calves do better. I would love some of them to go Prime. These particular breeders are very excited about getting carcass data on our calves. They have yet to see how their breeding performs in the feedlot. They're even planning to travel to Kansas to visit the calves right before they go to the packer.

Thanks Heidi, that was interesting. This city slicker would never have known that. Hope they all go prime, will you let us know?

I just posted a the show photo from yesterday. Rede's baby sister won National Grand Champion Red Angus female!!! I'm so proud, though I had nothing to do with it. She's still family.

How did that "a" sneak in there?

we stayed up chatting till 10.30 Broni..

We are all up early..
Rena and Amber have booked to go on an Aboriginal Tour.
They have to be at the Coach Stand in the City by 8.45am.
which means leaving home around 7.30am and drive to the Train Station.
Catch the 8.04 Train, should we miss that than the 8.19am train into the city.

BTW

Hope Rena and Amber had a good sleep and enjoy their tour.

Ta Heidi, that makes sense to this country-living-but-no-clue person! I hope they go prime too!

Morning Rolanda - say hi to Rena and Amber from me! They've sure booked a full holiday - going touring at 7.30am the day after an international flight!

Broni, enjoy your day off!

It sounds like you will all have a great visit. Have fun!!!

So not here! Thought if I have a sneak peek while Hannah is getting ready for school, it will prevent me coming back in here when I get back from dropping her off.

Liz is having trouble getting in...

Yeah right Dag, who are you kidding??
Well off to do ffuts, have to get the house in order for the weekend, having visitors all weekend.

Good Morning lovely SA7 people - great to hear that Rena and Amber arrived safely but agree with you Suzy - up early for a tour after a long international flight. Hope they don't sleep all day!
Have a great day everyone.

Hello all
with thanks to Suzy I got here
it keeps telling me page under construction
was thinking G A I L where are you and what have you done hehe
Havent read any pages for a few days and look at what youve all done
page 8 oh my god you guys talk way too much hehe

Got a lot of reading to do
have I missed anything huge

Got a good one for you all
friends at work have talked me into joining Facebook, eek and I thought this was hard,
people ask you if you want to be theie friend and you accept,
well get this request from a Liz with the same surname, wanting to be my friend,
well I freaked out thinking all sorts of strange things.
turns out this Liz with the same name, had searched her own name and decided to try and make contact, she lives in Michigan, in the States,
and we are now trying to find out if there may be a connection of some form.....

Have to take Gizzy to the vet this morning for microchipping, as I tried to register them,
but you have to do the microchip first.
another $40, Sammy doesnt have to be done due to his age and health issues..

And another good one for you all
on my way home last night, I saw an injured Galah on the side of the road, everyone was just driving past, Yep I stopped managed to pick him up with an old towel out of the boot and took him to a friends house, who has an aviary, he put him in with his other Galah,
and this morning it looks like it may survive,
the other one Gilbert hasnt attacked or anything.

enough of talking to myself,
might go and do ffuts
byebye for now

Hi all! Still have 2 pages to read, but wanted to pop in at the end. I usually read and then find everyone gone
Thrilled to hear Rena and Amber arrived safely and are now full-swing into their tourist activities.
Lizzy - What a wonderful animal angel you were to help that Galah...I'm so happy to hear it is doing well.

Also Lizzy - just wanted you to know that I have a facebook page and am TOTALLY lost on that site. Must be for the younger set (hehe)
Heidi - I sure am enjoying your now flakes! ...and congrats on your "family's" showing!
OK - back to some more reading then the dreaded ffuts!

Hia Vici
Hey love the avatar
They think he may be very young so have to hope he will pull through.
He was sitting next to another bird that was killed, and very possibly Mum, as Mike my friend thinks this may be a baby, and was still being fed by Mum, this will make survival hard work.

As I am taking Gizmo to see Dr Ian the vet this morning
I am going to ask his advice
Gilbert the Galah was named after the road where he was found
so as this one was found on Mt Dandenong Road we have decide to call him/her Dandy

Will keep Dandy in my prayers...poor thing.
Speaking of avatars (thanks Liz) I love your new one, MzT!
Was thinking of some other SAers that might miss the move, like Lee. I heard from her and know she's not able to keep in touch as much, but hopes to return.
I guess we all pretty much know to go to the forum by now.

eaa - the way you came streaking in, I almost mistook you for a flying squirrel!!!
OK - gotta go do that ffuts I was mentioning earlier. Hope I can catch you all later...
Beanie Baby - you crazy bean! 3 trees? You could decorate them in 3 rooms!

e had a nice evening yesterday.
Christmas getogether for exwork mates of hubby and self. Venue overlooking Sydney Harbour and the Bridge. Absolutely beautiful and wonderful to catch up with people we have known for 40-50 years.
Waited for a phone call from Sharon before going to bed.

Must be getting close to a TOPP
as Im alone again I should get it
hehe

Back - one gone, one around until 11 thanks to another teacher's strike...

Liz - glad you found us! I have a man with the same last name except with little dashes over the u asking to be my facebook friend. Since I'm so useless on facebook I didn't do anything about it! I hope Dandy makes it... here I just call NANA and he would go to a trained carer. I wouldn't even know where to start looking after a very young bird!

Vici - love your avatar!

What are you saying Bean has 3 Christmas trees
Im not even going to put mine up this year
room is always a problem,
but I do have some snow spray to put on the windows,
and some tinsle, to throw around the place
Oh and some spikes to put in plants out the front of the house........

June - your evening sounds lovely...but "C"???? YIKES! I have to get going on that!

Morning June - what a wonderful evening! Early for christmas, but that's good as there is usually so much else on in December that it's hard to fit everything in.

I think Bean is bidding for trees on-line...hoping for one, but worried she might end up with them all!

Suzy - I wouldnt have tried myself at all,
but as my friends have an aviary with one Galah in it
and they have commented a few times it would be nice to get a buddy for Gilbert
I thought of him straigh away