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Some times l find it easier to get the cow using the calf as bait

Curious if anyone has seen this before a week ago had to different cows in standing heat yesterday and today both calved calves are fine .cows never bagged up or swelled up just had calves.maybe hormones just curious if anyone else ever observed this

I agree with the bando 598 has a son of his years ago and some really disappointing calves from him no experience with the new design bull

http://origenbeef.org/semen_detail.php?bull=112

If you want docile cattle the bull cc& 7 is supposed to be really good

We use bags now but when we used a bunker we threw wheat seed on top and it and it created a sod that sealed it up only 2 to 3 inches of spoilage . Silage here in Iowa is the cheapest way to put up feed due to high land prices hard to compete with the government for ground in crp that should be...

A well respected cattle man once told me a calves greatest potential is the day it is conceived every thing else is a limiting factor

I really hate buying bulls at a sale I prefer private treaty I rather enjoy walking through the pen with the breeder talking about the bulls pedigree and know what the guy wants up front. I select my bulls on phenotype first and numbers second. I stay away from calving ease bulls except for hfr...

This was made about a hour from home with iowa beef council dollars.https://youtu.be/Do2o33-gZaU

First hfr calved today 10 degrees born in the lean to all seems fine first time mother did a great job

I love my calf warmer when in doubt throw them in it for a hour and then turn them back with momma. I haven’t killed one yet airing on the side of caution. The same on pulling calves soap weed taught me when I interned with him it don’t hurt to air on the side of caution and just pull it

20 degrees the only reason I ask last week it was -22 and my hfrs start the 15th of Jan the forecast looks good mid 20s for highs and mid teens for lows and dry I have a barn to lock a few head in if I need to

Just curious at what temperature other folks lock cows up in the barn or throw the calves in the calf warmer? I guess below 20 is kind of my threshold

granpa bought each boy there own cow so they thought they ought to haul mineral

I wouldn't have a straight Hereford herd but I do like the bulls sometimes I keep a Hereford hfr now again but we also have angus bulls we use the Hereford more as a terminal cross they seem to inject more frame and bone in to the calves. Angus bulls seem to be a dime a dozen and it is hard to...

Not really one we get a few herfs out of are baldy cows every year and 2dollar hit is a lot better than the 15 20 dollar hit at a regular sale buyers around here are very color bias but they like the baldys so I breed for are market

Baldy calves always seem to top the market here. I firmly believe it is eye appeal in the sale ring.the sale barn has a Hereford influenced sale first week of January it's a sorted sale and those herfs bring within 2dollars a hundred of a load of black calves

The corn around here looks good but 150 miles away they don't even think it will be worth chopping. I think we are in for a wild ride both in the grains and cattle markets

We run salt a fescue mineral and fly control tried to go cheap one year without fly control big mistake the horn flys where miserable really seems to help with pinkeye also we vaccinate for pinkeye also

Historically I have wintered them with the cows on a silage ground hay ration with lots of bunk space then turned on grass first of may with the bull.i felt they were lagging behind so this year I fed them 10 pounds a day grain concentrate and okay hay .then we had a pile of silage left so put...