Got the first 13 home!

[flea beetle]

Only one flipped over in the chute while loading at the previous owners place, so the kids affectionately named her flippy.🤣 My first experience handling these beasts went…not too bad lol. Nobody got hurt, including the animals, so all is good!

[Rareearth]

You do know that they are going to bust out and run back in the direction of previous home?

Congrats, the market is down price wise, a great entry point.

[flea beetle]

You do know that they are going to bust out and run back in the direction of previous home?

Congrats, the market is down price wise, a great entry point.

Well I tried my best. If they break out of that fence, I have no hope lol.

They are only 40 minutes drive from where they came from, so very possible. But I hope you are just pulling my leg😜

[Rareearth]

That is a great fence!
The direction and home - run i have heard is true, if you do need to go looking you know what direction to look. After the first year you are fine, they have a new home.

[Guest]

When you’re ready to sell meat let me know !

[flea beetle]

When you’re ready to sell meat let me know !

Should have some in the fall of 2023.

[flea beetle]

Went on another adventure today as well. Somewhere by furrowticklers part of the word I think. 20-25 min east of north battleford on hwy 40.

Picked up a new to me old toy. Runs good. You Saskatchewan folk are mighty honest. Always very accurate on your descriptions of what you are selling. Have never gone to Saskatchewan and not bought the item I went for. Have driven 5-6 hours in alberta only to not even get out of my truck and turn around and go home numerous times.

[flea beetle]

I think if there is a rally in prices 20-30% from where we are at, I will be selling the remaining gambling bushels. Crops look fairly decent all the way to battleford anyway.

Heard spiritwood got way too much rain though. Yorkton as well.

[furrowtickler]

Was that close to Speers ??
We are just NE of N.B.

[flea beetle]

Was that close to Speers ??
We are just NE of N.B.

Not quite that far. Just west of the S curve on hwy 40.

[bobofthenorth]

Too many years ago now a runaway Hungarian moved in next to me NW of Nipawin. He had fought in the Hungarian resistance, escaped to Switzerland, taught university there for a while and eventually came to Nipawin to make his fortune raising buffalo. Being old and from Europe he knew pretty much all the answers. For whatever reason he didn't have a driver's license even after a couple of years in the country so I volunteered to drive him to Edmonton to look at some buffalo that he was going to buy for breeding stock.

"Bill Crillo" sticks in my head as the name of the guy we went to see that could be oldtimers. His handling yards were concrete posts with drill stem for rails, probably 6 feet high. I said something wise like "that should hold them". He just laughed. He said "When they want out they run at the fence, the front ones go down and the rest keep charging until they go up and over." Later I had a guy working for me who managed to buy buffalo pretty much at their top. We helped him move them to pasture one spring and after that experience I never doubted the guy in Edmonton.

Good luck.

[flea beetle]

Too many years ago now a runaway Hungarian moved in next to me NW of Nipawin. He had fought in the Hungarian resistance, escaped to Switzerland, taught university there for a while and eventually came to Nipawin to make his fortune raising buffalo. Being old and from Europe he knew pretty much all the answers. For whatever reason he didn't have a driver's license even after a couple of years in the country so I volunteered to drive him to Edmonton to look at some buffalo that he was going to buy for breeding stock.

"Bill Crillo" sticks in my head as the name of the guy we went to see that could be oldtimers. His handling yards were concrete posts with drill stem for rails, probably 6 feet high. I said something wise like "that should hold them". He just laughed. He said "When they want out they run at the fence, the front ones go down and the rest keep charging until they go up and over." Later I had a guy working for me who managed to buy buffalo pretty much at their top. We helped him move them to pasture one spring and after that experience I never doubted the guy in Edmonton.

Good luck.

Lol pretty tame until you get them in a confined space. Then they go ape!

[Blaithin]

That is a great fence!
The direction and home - run i have heard is true, if you do need to go looking you know what direction to look. After the first year you are fine, they have a new home.

We brought our small herd of beef cows from Manitoba with us when we came back to Alberta. Within the first two months (can’t remember exact length of time, it was a few years ago now!), they escaped and headed out to the highway and back due east. Could have been coincidence but seemed highly suspicious. They were on a mission.