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Curious if anyone has seen this before a week ago had to different cows in standing heat yesterday and today both calved calves are fine .cows never bagged up or swelled up just had calves.maybe hormones just curious if anyone else ever observed this

A well respected cattle man once told me a calves greatest potential is the day it is conceived every thing else is a limiting factor

I really hate buying bulls at a sale I prefer private treaty I rather enjoy walking through the pen with the breeder talking about the bulls pedigree and know what the guy wants up front. I select my bulls on phenotype first and numbers second. I stay away from calving ease bulls except for hfr...

First hfr calved today 10 degrees born in the lean to all seems fine first time mother did a great job

I love my calf warmer when in doubt throw them in it for a hour and then turn them back with momma. I haven’t killed one yet airing on the side of caution. The same on pulling calves soap weed taught me when I interned with him it don’t hurt to air on the side of caution and just pull it

20 degrees the only reason I ask last week it was -22 and my hfrs start the 15th of Jan the forecast looks good mid 20s for highs and mid teens for lows and dry I have a barn to lock a few head in if I need to

Just curious at what temperature other folks lock cows up in the barn or throw the calves in the calf warmer? I guess below 20 is kind of my threshold

granpa bought each boy there own cow so they thought they ought to haul mineral

The corn around here looks good but 150 miles away they don't even think it will be worth chopping. I think we are in for a wild ride both in the grains and cattle markets

We run salt a fescue mineral and fly control tried to go cheap one year without fly control big mistake the horn flys where miserable really seems to help with pinkeye also we vaccinate for pinkeye also

Historically I have wintered them with the cows on a silage ground hay ration with lots of bunk space then turned on grass first of may with the bull.i felt they were lagging behind so this year I fed them 10 pounds a day grain concentrate and okay hay .then we had a pile of silage left so put...

What are your folks hfr development programs like just curious looking for some different ideas thanks

I don't have enough head to use the board I know my big end of steers will go in mid nov at a select vac sale to satisfy the bank and landlords and will back ground the smaller steers and hfrs till Jan

Recently it seems when all hope is lost the market turns no one expected the last rally but it was a good one just wish I had something to sell during it

Cold storage inventory down10 percent from a year ago

All we can do is wait and hope it straightens soon

But I believe chasing the other extreme makes it so eventually your cows can't give birth to a puppy that why I consider a calf out Of a heifer terminal

To much if you're buying and not enough if you're selling

He is a .03 ce the sire is a 3.2 bw there's a half brother with a 1.4 bw and 3.5 ce

Is 94 pounds high for hereford birth weight has 3.7 birth weight epd