Black Swan Cattle Co.

@vaquerodepapel Usually does. We just get used to it.

@trdraaron Its starting to feel iffy isn't it.

Prosperity. Now if it would rain someday.

@EllicottRanchin I like to see the multi generational calving ease if I’m selecting calving ease bulls.

@trdraaron How do you use epds to select bulls

I wish bull sale catalogs would link to the herd registry so I can easily see the pedigree epds.

Covered a lot of miles to look at some of my cattle, have lunch with a good friend, and back home again.

It’s possible we have the absolutely worst set of leaders in place to deal with this in the EU and USA

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

Old guy that sold these spent a lot of years making the cows just this way.

Breeding back as fast as biologically possible (or about 10 days faster by my math) is always interesting.

Professionally bought. No she is not a belted Galloway, at least not in whole.

People will be involved buying and selling in markets their whole life and then ask who is making the market. Well, you, along with suppliers, end users, brokers, etc. the markets job is to figure it all out amongst everyone using price and time.

@rodgrisier1958 Right. They want to buy beef from me because they don’t like Walmart and our one other grocery store closed recently.

@trdraaron Now let's S x S a taste test. Delicious vs Meh

Maybe I’m figuring off somewhere but if my neighbors just want hamburger and some roasts and I sell them a fed cow at $1.80 then after it’s all said and done on a 1500# live weight the hamburger will cost $7.53/#. Or exactly what it costs at the grocery store. $1.45/# processing

China is probably as reliant on oil from straight of Hormuz as anyone but I haven’t really seen any analysis about that or what China thinks. They probably won’t post on social media about it like some.

Nearing in on q1 and the early themes I loved, global ex-US value stocks and EM local ccy debt, have suffered from dollar and oil gains, but investments like Canadian oil, rails and Berkshire have stabilized things. Watching homebuilder NVR which I always watch for at 40-50% off.

*top 200 among yearling bulls

501 and 511 two of the top 200 bulls in the breed for Terminal Sire index, top 20% and 7% respectively for calving ease, top 1% and 4% maternal. Gonna be making buckskin babies.

Power in the blood

@775_Cattle AVC breeder prefix.

@trdraaron Where did these bulls come from?