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I was castrating yesterday with a knife. The calf kicked and I cut my left thumb where it joins the hand to the bone. So, I am looking at other methods. I don't want to band as I work them twice a year and some of them are big calves and that is not recommended. I don't want to burdizzo...

Right at the upper end of the sheath next to the testes one of my bulls has developed some abscess looking things. These would be right at the joint of the penis and the testes. Any ideas for what this may be? Can't get a vet to look at it til next week.

I worked my cattle two weeks ago to get some steers out for sale. While I had them caught, I vaccinated a few that I'd missed in February. One of them has a knot where I injected her with Ultrabac the size of a grapefruit. One other one has a knot a little larger than the rest. I've always...

To me, cattle folks ought to talk slow and know when to not talk at all. They ought to love the land and do what they can to make it more productive for them and their animals. They should work hard and love their spouse and kids. They should go to church when they can and teach their...

Does anyone know of a good list of first aid/medicines/tools to doctor cattle that I should have on hand? I've just been getting things as I need them from antibiotics, syringes, etc., but it would be nice to have a good list to work from for emergencies or maybe even a kit made ready to buy...

I have a young cow (second calf) and her udder turned ugly all of the sudden. The teats are about four inches long and I know when she bags up for the next calf they are going to be all distended and cone shaped and hard for the calf to suckle. Anyway to do anything about that? Any thing to...

In Texas the flies are really getting going. I have a backrubber and spray them with Sabre when I work them, but do you guys recommend those eartags? Thanks. Kevin

Fellas: My father wants a place to lease in northern Kansas or Nebraska for deer (whitetail) season. He went up last year and talked to some folks during deer season, but I don't think that's going to pan out. If you have some acreage available, please let me know and I will get him to...

I lost a darned calf last night. I saw #3 (first cow I bought in 2003) was going to calve and should've penned her, but she's a pretty easy keeper and has just gone off and come back with a calf in the past. Well, she's been gone since Monday night and I think I've seen the last of her alive...

I've got horses in one of my pastures and hate mixing them with my cattle because one of them is a real ball buster and will chase whatver I put in there. Anyway, I would like to leave my cattle all together, but some of the calves are getting big and really drawing down the mommas. anybody...

I'm just going to have to take my lumps, I guess, with some folks I know because I have to say this: If Beefmaster Breeders United doesn't stop putting a premium on black cattle and straight underlines over fertility and weight gain, they can go to hell. I could care less if a cow looks like a...

Fellas and Ladies: I have a 25 month old bull with my cows right now (all registered Beefmasters) and a couple of things are bothering me about him. First, since I put him out with this set in May, only 3 of ten of them are bred. Seven open cows has a way of turning a bull into hamburger...

Neighbors called yesterday to say that they'd seen a cow down trying to calf so I went to see. She wasn't trying to calf--is several months bred with a 6-7 month old steer calf alongside. But she was down flat on her side and seems almost paralyzed, but able to switch her tail and move her...

How do you horse owners keep your horses from doing stupid things? Last week I was unhitching a trailer (jacking it up, disconnecting the lights, chains, bulldog hitch, etc.) for about 3 minutes and when I came back around to get in the pickup one of the horses was eating the paint off my...

I've got a heifer calf that I had an umbilical hernia sewn up on not more than a month ago. Yesterday I saw that she's got a bulge there and this time it's protruding. Last time I just found it because I was feeling around her abdomen for umbilical abcess/navel infection--had her in the...

I have a real thick, good calf that has too much underline to keep in my registered herd. The other day I got to looking at her navel and it looked like she had rubbed it or maybe it was a little infected or something. I put her in the chute to check it and it was just some white hair right...

I've got a registered beefmaster cow that threw a good heifer calf and both of them are clean on the top and bottom. Thing is that this cow vaginal prolapsed about three months after calving. I think she was in heat or breeding back when this happened. She had not prolapsed any time before...

Soapweed: When I grow up I want to be as cool as you are and do the things you do. In all earnestness, I just really enjoy your posts: the pics, the cattle, the land, the family, etc. Please keep it up. I weekend ranch and it sure makes the time in the office go by faster looking at and...