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Seeing soaps pictures of the heifers running on irrigated corn stalks, I have a few questions not being from that area. My understanding has always been that the low areas in the sandhills have a very high watertable and allow subirrigation of the grasses in those areas. The higher areas are...

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whatever was the verdict on those red and white gents you had this winter, did they go out with some cows or heifers?

Looking at trying to make some baldies on my black angus cows. Got my eye on Harland, is he smoke and mirrors or the real deal. Would he work ok on black heifers calving ease wise? Thanks for the input.

Really been studying up on some of the more popular genetic programs in the Angus breed, and it seems everything is oriented towards calving ease with lots of growth, with a low BW, high CED then big numbers on WW and YW. Obviously the high WW demands a lot of milk and usually the dam's milk is...

Been feeding distillers syrup in lick tanks and the cows are averaging almost 4 gal/day. I can't get them to slow down. WOuld like them consuming 1 gal/day. I've tried a 50 lb. bag of salt in on a fill and they still suck it down fast. Any ideas what I could add to "bitter" it up and slow...

Are there any alternatives to the traditional sliders and dropgates for squeeze chutes. I want to put a scale behind my squeeze chute and don't like the drop gates because they have a foot gap under them that the cow in waiting has to see if she can shove her head under and a slider would be...

So what is everyone thinking on this years calves? Futures in the upper 120's, cost of gain ~$0.90/lb. Are you taking the $900 cash for your calves or laying it on the table for more on the fat market next spring?

I was hauling manure the other day, actually several days in a row, and really got to thinking how simple of an operation Soapweed has for such a large number of cows. He pretty well documents his operation in his great picture stories and I can't ever recall seeing a manure spreader in any of...

Had a cow have a set of twins out in the field. Well found the calves about 200' apart and looked like one only got partially cleaned up and she had the other one. She is really bonded up to one of the calves, and accepts the other one, but when he goes into nurse she always pushes him away...

What would be a good rope for a very naive corn farmer who runs cattle and doesn't even own a horse to get to rope young calves on pasture for treatment over summer? THinking I'd tie off to the atv and be ~15' or so away from the target. Maybe I'm stupid thinking this is possible, never threw...

Anyone know what the costs and procedure is to have a bull collected for my own tank. Just got a bull I really like on heifers and want to put some away to use until I find one I like better than him. He is 5 now. I know how it is collected, etc. But can a vet do it, or do I need to have...

Does anyone use calf shelters for calving in late winter? Seems there is always a raging high wind freezing blizzard comes up for a few days in late Feb or March and wish those calves had a shelter duck in out of the wind into. I calve on bedded straw packs behind windbreaks, the days I'd like...

Does it seems the salebarns are picking apart the calves more than they ever have in awhile? Seems any little defect just cuts the bid in half, speck in the eye, bobbed tail, ears a little nipped. Everyone knows they feed all the same, just seems the cow/calf man is getting hammered from all...

I got a calf that is about 2 weeks old and is perfectly normal, acts and eats normal, but I noticed the other day one of his eyeballs is solid white with some reddening and swelling, like it got poked or something, anyone ever have this happen, if so how do you treat it and what is the...

How do you guys that cake on the ground, continue caking when frost is coming out of the ground or when it warms up in the middle of winter. Seems you could go a good week of sloppy mud and dropping cake in that mud would just waste a lot of feed. Unseasonable warmup here is making cattle...

Looking for a load of good solid black bred heifers for late winter calving Feb-March. Prefer synched and AI'd. Anybody have any numbers on what they're bringing. Looked at a couple private treaty groups that are wanting $1400/hd. Seems a little high, but trying to feel out the market...