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Merry Christmas to all on here! Dave, that songs got to be one of my favourites at this time of year, it must be because of the country we grew up and live in. I can see Danny Sill strumming on his guitar and yodelling that one out. Take care my friend and give Deb a big hug.

You need to take one of those low stress cattle handling seminars....you gave the old girl a heart attack. In past years a few big outfits up here used to hold every cow that lost a calf for whatever reason in big pastures with bulls. Around the end of August these cows hit the sale ring and...

That's the truth when you say "if it's labeled for horses, it costs more" I'm a bit of a redneck and have a good redneck vet for a friend. We've done some unpatented worming programs on a bunch of horses with no ill results. A couple that worked just as well as the pastes or the ivermectin...

What Don Bliss is saying is very true. Parasites have developed a resistance to ivermectin based products. We first noticed this several years ago when worming our horses. It seemed like some always appeared "wormy" no matter what product was used on them. All the paste, liquid, injectable and...

It was a good NFR for Canadian bronc riders when one wins the world Championship and they gather in 1 and 2 in the average as well.

Do you think Jake learned to ride a rank horse from his mornings out wrangling on Darwin's broncy pack horses？

It's not good to hear that. The CFIA has some real prizes on staff. We were lucky, as our long time ranch vet had just accepted an offer to go to work for CFIA a few days before we were handed a quarantine order. I called him and asked him to sit in on the initial meeting with the government...

I'm not going to rule out that the Mexican Roping Cattle strain of TB is not in Canadian wildlife, but so far it hasn't been picked up. We've had CFIA jump in on a few of these quarantine/investigation drama shows that involve this distinct strain of Bovine TB that has worked its way north from...

Great story leanin' H! Well earned bull. When you are hunting with a stick and string...you're hunting.

Where Earls gets their meat is no issue with me. The reasoning behind Earls move to source meat from Creekstone Farms is an issue. A cow is just as "humanely" dead when it is stunned and bled out in a Canadian slaughter house as one that is processed at Creekstone. The same protocols are in...

Here's what she said for a refresher; "Canada raises and sells some of the best beef in the world. We also have one of the best trace back systems for our beef with the CFIA (Canadian food inspection agency) and the CCIA (Canadian cattle identification agency).Our trace back system is far...

A real good read as to the effectiveness of the U.S.ability to trace back cattle are the USDA/APHIS summaries' on the 4 cases of BSE found in the USA. It's quite ironic that the 2003 Washinton State cow that had Canadian origin and tagging traceability was pretty much a slam dunk investigation...

There's a real simple answer to your question...you called a fellow rancher a liar when she questioned the U.S.ability to trace a cow to its herd of origin. You made the statement that the U.S.has a trace back system...I called BS. Several of your fellow U.S.cattlemen have also posted on this...

Thanks Soapweed, I appreciate your comment.

mrj, to answer your question on the TB issue, it was in May 2008. Angus 62, your suggestion to stop importation is in the true spirit of R-Calf mentality. Brad S, you may think you have the answers, and I know I do not but the bottom line is the U.S. does not have an infallible trace back...