Switching gears

Louisa

All right, all right, enough pig pictures. How about a nice heifer? Lousia is a beauty.

Sunday we took the first beef to the locker, and will continue with one each week for 6 weeks. It’s always nice when the beef starts to go in. This time of year is when the cash flow crunch is heaviest, and week by week the beef sales start to alleviate that.

Whenever we take an animal to the locker we always go to the elevator first, weigh loaded, unload the animal(s) at the locker, go back to the elevator, and weigh empty. In between the two weigh-ins we each make a guess as to how much the animal will weigh.

Now I know nothing about cattle, don’t know how to look at one and decide if it’s “ready”. Matt picked out the steer he thought was best finished – a round rump, hip pin bones not protruding too much, nice smooth cover. Matt guessed 1305 pounds, I guessed 1365. This steer weighed 1380 pounds – I was only 15 pounds off! I won’t let Matt soon forget that 🙂

We still have a few quarters or bundles (essentially an 1/8th of a beef) available for February and March. Just holler if you want to reserve one!