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ER big sky 545b an older bull but his daughters are really good abs global

the service after the sale will be remembered a lot longer than the sale. our Vermeer baler caught fire this year and because of the lousy service from where we bought it we now have a NH baler. when the dealer can't even get a belt for a baler he sold you, without a big ordeal. the NH dealer...

kosmo kid reminds me of the Christmas carol movie. that is a good looking bunch of grandkids, the cattle look good. you are very blessed.

congratulation's my wife's birthday is the same day this year she was in ICU very sick she said it doesn't count since she can't remember. she is finally home after 4 weeks in the hospital she doesn't remember any of it and I will never forget it after 34 years of marriage it was kind of scary...

we get about 4 years average. depends on the size of your operation and if you keep heifers every year. when I first started I changed bulls more often but now we are bigger and we can keep a bull longer because the heifers go further away. we sold a bull this year that was 8 yr old, usually...

we use a priefert headgate, with a handle, we crowd the calves in the alley, it will hold all but the smallest calf. one gets behind and pushes them up to the headgate because they always turn around and get crossways, it is easier to work from behind than reaching through. I would like to have...

I was driving by a neighbors and seen a circle of black buzzard( not Mexican?? maybe cousins) around a cow so I stopped to see if everything was ok and she had a new calf that was trying to get up she kept them at bay. I had one a couple years ago a brangus cow, they will fight off anything even...

since I had both my knees replaced I can't kneel down on a calf but that is worth it. I love my new knees I do them standing up or let my 20 something boys do it while I point out the next one.

the hip lifts work we borrowed some from a neighbor and the first time the cow came out of it in a couple days, pinched nerve she could go once we stood her up but at night she would get to stiff to get up. the second time we realized that the legs weren't going to work so we made hamburger, she...

last year we had 2 extra calves, one set of twins and one orphaned, no where to put them, so fill the bottles. this year we have lost 3 and grafted 1 on because our neighbors cow broke her hip so he had an extra one. no twins out of 70 births still have a few to go

in the last picture that looks like a blue mouse block, that is a small calf. she didn't weigh much more than a salt block.

they can be cleaned to the bones pretty quick buzzards and yotes I have seen there not much left overnight. this time of year I find baby calves by the buzzards circling over they are pretty hungry with all the snow.

we rarely use one here in the south, but this has been an unusual winter, we used the floor in the mudroom yesterday to save one and it was to late for the other. about 2/3's done with calving

waygu x gelbvieh

I am wearing shorts here in the south 22 above and we think that is really cold low tonight 5 above. ice and snow on the ground