Recent content by coulee

CattleRMe, I reckon it is always dangerous to criticize a breed, so I will qualify by saying I think charolais make a good terminal cross. I have a good buddy veterinary who read a report out of MARC saying that an angus charolais cross was the most efficient cow. He took that to heart and...

I talked to a couple of dairy folks about hernia's a while ago. They told me that most of them close up on their own. I don't have any personal experience, so take my comments with a grain of salt, but I would sure get a second opion from a vet or dairy farmer that has seen a lot of these...

The only prolapses that I know have been shown to be heritible are the vaginal prolapses that occur before calving. Cows don't normally prolapse when they are open so when they do, I reckon there is something wrong with her, like infection etc... that maybe caused her to strain. I would...

Hey TXTibbs, I took some pictures hay stacking at our outfit in SD. We put up around 100 13 ton stacks a year, but with the lack of rain, we won't get that many this year. We roll up most of our hay, but stacks give us some flexability and we are just a little old fashioned; we don't want to...

The silencer chute comes in a couple of different sizes. Their extended modle can easliy hadle mature bulls. I think the design of the scilencer is hard to beat. They have done a lot of things right. I first worked a silencer in the early 90's. Cows were able to drop down and kneel after they...

Hi everybody, This has been an interesting conversation. I just have to make a couple comments. I was raised on a ranch, spent my college days studying how to make ranching profitable and sustainable. When I got out of school I thought I had the secret formula, which was, match your cows to...