Recent content by J.Johnson

I have attributed one outbreak of pinkeye to ear tags before. The lesions were consistently on the side with the tag. The tags were large with long necks. Don't remember the brand of tag right off. They could reach the eye easily when the ear was pulled down. Of course, my diagnosis was...

Always enjoy your stories Soapweed! You mentioned Monahan's and the Circle Dot. I am a vet down in southwest Nebraska. Well we have a client that has been buying weigh up cows to feed or calve out. We are preg checking once a week and sorting them into opens to feed, or bred and into month...

Found a recent article describing how to estimate bushels on the ground by counting ears. http://beef.unl.edu/estimating-bushels-corn-ground-counting-ears-prior-grazing-cattle

Sorry that I can't provide much insight to bale grazing. I've wanted to try it for years, but "upper management" if you will hasn't allowed it. He thinks it would be a wreck. I say we will never know until we try! But I can help with the corn situation. The trick to grazing corn stalks with...

I almost had a similar experience on Saturday as well. If I haven't mentioned before, I am a veterinarian. I was preg checking cows on Saturday and as things often are, we were short on help, so I was helping load cows into the alleyway up to the chute. Well this one cow(lets just say she...

One reason some of us don't regularly see checkoff dollars in action locally may be due to how they are distributed. The way I understand it is check off "rich" states like Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, etc. send check off dollars to "poor" states like New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, etc...

Great story and glad it turned out for you! I really enjoyed your write up and pictures too. Thanks!

Looks awfully green for August! It looks great.

Here we run 10 acres/pair through the grazing season, but we head to corn stalks over the winter and spring. Continuous grazing would require decreasing our stocking density significantly.

This happened to a neighbor several years ago. He went to pull the calf and put a piece of baling twine around the calves legs. He then took a good wrap around his wrists to pull. The best everyone could figure is the cow got up at some point and took off. His family found him the next...

Just curious, what kind of stocking rate are you looking at for your pasture in north Texas?

Brand 'em! It is the only easily read permanent identification method for livestock. Ear tags will fall out and like previously mention, are awfully easy to remove.

How do you plan to pay for your living expenses? It has to come from somewhere. As far as transfer, you could negotiate a percentage of the calf crop (as payment for management and labor) that you keep. From these calves you choose replacement animals. Every year you could recalculate what...

The picture with the cow above the windmill and lake belongs on a wall! Nice work.

The ladies look like they're in nice condition. They should breed up nice!