Mark

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I was checking cows yesterday, and came across calf #6 for 2016:

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I see that you have those lovely locust trees too!!!!! I've had to drain and iodine more abcesses in these past 3 years than I ever did in 12 years when we were out west.

I never thought I would wish I had a mesquite tree, but these locusts are terrible. You lose a pint of blood trying to clear them out by hand. Recently wised up and just finished bulldozing 15 acres of those ba$tards. Now I guess will be spraying for the next few years so they won't come back!!!!

I miss west Texas and I miss those mesquites (kinda sorta)!!!!!

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I see that you have those lovely locust trees too!!!!! I've had to drain and iodine more abcesses in these past 3 years than I ever did in 12 years when we were out west.

I never thought I would wish I had a mesquite tree, but these locusts are terrible. You lose a pint of blood trying to clear them out by hand. Recently wised up and just finished bulldozing 15 acres of those ba$tards. Now I guess will be spraying for the next few years so they won't come back!!!!

I miss west Texas and I miss those mesquites (kinda sorta)!!!!!

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You may not believe this, but I do not have locust trees. That IS a mesquite! Some of the mesquites just have badazz thorns like that and some are not as bad. I have seen locust thorns on the internet as long as 4-1/2" so yeah, I am glad I don't have those. These are bad enough.

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Quote:Nothing to add other than I remember the smell of that Edroy feedlot well. Lived about 5 miles as a crow flies from there and smell carries well in that windy part of Texas.

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Is the feedlot in Edroy no longer open?

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It is still open. I don't know who owns/runs it.

I lived in Edroy until 1974 and remember the smell. Almost got used to it.

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Quote:Nothing to add other than I remember the smell of that Edroy feedlot well. Lived about 5 miles as a crow flies from there and smell carries well in that windy part of Texas.

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Is the feedlot in Edroy no longer open?

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It is still open. I don't know who owns/runs it.

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I don't know why I said it is still open. I must've forgotten something I knew back then. I don't know of any feedlot in Edroy. Just farm fields.