One step closer

[flea beetle]

Sound like you would be getting in at the right time. Much easier to make money when you buy in at the lows.
Do they average one live calf per female?
So a bison calf can be kept an extra year or 2 and not lose value as a butcher animal? Or did that only apply to breeding stock?

Yes one calf per year.

Butcher animals are 25-30 months old. So keeping your calves an extra year only adds value as yearlings are about $700-$1000 more than calves.

[RD414]

Buffalo do NOT like handling facilities or trailers. They have a pecking order in the herd and sharp horns they use to maintain that. When they are in close quarters something, someone can quickly be hurt. Only time ours seen a trailer was leaving the farm for good. Right down to they don’t like narrow alleyways, too close to each other. When moving them, they do respect something that can out manoeuvre them. That something is not a halfton. We used fast quads. Saying that, they remember how they got to where they are and will backtrack to get home.

[WiltonRanch]

Anybody have experience pulling posts in the winter. I have never done it, but wondering if it is possible without wrecking the post? Most are drill stem, but some are wood.

Comes out easy, or wait until spring/summer?

Try the pipe but the wood I would wait till spring. In fact you can drive the pipe in the winter easily. I’ve done so myself. If you’re area is in the same boat as mine there isn’t much frost from a mild early winter and snow cover. In fact I bought some gates off a guy still attached to the post and he pulled them out with a skid steer no problem.

[TSIPP]

I hauled 9 buffalo in my stock trailer probably a ninety mile trip, way nicer than hauling cows as the buffalo didn’t shake the trailer around, not even a little, I couldn’t tell anything was loaded.

Buffalo aren’t much scarier than my black cows during calving time.

[flea beetle]

I hauled 9 buffalo in my stock trailer probably a ninety mile trip, way nicer than hauling cows as the buffalo didn’t shake the trailer around, not even a little, I couldn’t tell anything was loaded.

Buffalo aren’t much scarier than my black cows during calving time.

We’re the animals noticeably spooked once you unloaded them?

[TSIPP]

Nope, I opened the big gate and a minute later they ran out fast and a half round in the corral they slowed down to a walk.

[flea beetle]

Nope, I opened the big gate and a minute later they ran out fast and a half round in the corral they slowed down to a walk.

Well that answers one of my biggest questions! Thank you!

[TSIPP]

Heavy in calf I’d be really careful loading and driving.

[flea beetle]

Heavy in calf I’d be really careful loading and driving.

4-5 months after breeding too late you figure?

[riders2010]

Bison cows go off by themselves to calf
You don’t want to be anywhere near them
Calving. Never get in between cow and calf not
Ever!!! Relatives claim have never assisted a
Cow calving and they calve in warm weather
Naturally. They are beautiful animal to watch. When
I visit them spend as much time as I can watching
Their herd.
Ribeye and tenderloin is to die for.

[TSIPP]

4-5 months after breeding too late you figure?

I wouldn’t consider heavy in calf until after 8 months, low stress handling is definitely the best, just take your time loading and hauling.