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sic-em-reds, I've done quite a bit of ET work for these folks as well as bull work. They have some really functional cattle and are super nice folks to work with. In addition, I've found them to be very honest in all they do. I plan to be at the sale, even though I don't really need any cows...

We heat our log house with a wood stove, with electric heat forced air furnace as a back-up. Our total bill for the whole ranch is seldom over $250 per month. Just received word that a friend's propane blew up in their house and she is now in the hospital with severe burns. We'd heard enough of...

FH, Sorry to be slow getting back to you. We were gone ultrasounding Hereford bulls the past couple of days. The Touchstone donors I've flushed were about 1150-1200 lb. cows, which for cattle running on the short grass of eastern Wyoming is probably big enough. On the discussion about land...

FH, We do Touchstone's ultrasound work, and part of their ET work. Brad and his family are really nice folks, and he seems to me to be a very intelligent man. They sell their own branded grass fat beef, and there does seem to be quite a demand for it in the Denver-Fort Collins area. It will be...

NR, You are right that cattle need enough feed to be able to express their genetic differences. We have several similar situations that we ultrasound for and in those cases, we wait and do the heifers after the breeding season when they've been on summer grass long enough to have adequate...

Lazy Ace, Yes, we send our images to CUP Lab. They are the gold standard of the industry, and I have confidence that we get good useful and unbiased data from them. They have a new software coming out soon that will let us scan feedlot cattle at 65-100 days on feed, and project how many days...

Lazy Ace and Tap, My son and I do carcass ultrasound as part of my vet practice. At first it was all bulls that we did, but it wasn't long before we were doing quite a number of heifers. Most of those heifers were for commercial ranchers. The purebred guys were willing to do their bulls, because...

Angusman, We have a Foremost here at the ranch that we've used for 10 years. We've run thousands of recipient cows through it and it holds up well. I don't like the squeeze the best, and the side panels aren't the best to carcass ultrasound in, but other than that, I like it fine. In general...

Mike, It's been so long since I posted that I forgot my password. :oops: :oops: Just wrapped up the fall preg. checking last week. Have been running about 1000 cows per week since mid October. But I wanted to respond to your post. Part of our practice is carcass ultrasound, and we do lots of...

I've done embryo transfer work for the Hoff's intermittently since the mid 80's. They are very nice folks to work with. I've also used some of their bulls. One that I remember in particular was a Heartland son. This bull got really big as he matured, but we never had calving trouble with any of...

Interesting photos LB. I rarely make individual calls, as most of my practice is embryo transfer, ultrasound and preg testing, but a young fellow who is a neighbor called last fall with a rectal/cervical prolapse. I was sure surprised by what I found. The cow was a Hereford on the right sida...

Thanks FH, I'll switch back next week.

To quote my colleague Baxter Black, "Everyone says they love chicken, ambrosia sent from above, but nobody loves a chicken, a chicken ain't easy to love." You can be assured that these Poultry Concern folks aren't "concerned" about poultry. They are concerned with how much money they can raise...

Faster Horses, How long does your company recommend feeding hi mag mineral after the grass gets green? In our area, if we are going to see grass tetany, we usually see the first cases about April 10. So far we haven't had any. We've been feeding the yearling steers hi mag for about 3 weeks. The...

Ranch Mom, Let me share the story of two ranch raised ladies, one, my wife, and the other a good friend of her's. When our son was born, we agreed that she would quit teaching and stay home to raise him. Her friend pursued a career in the state legislature and let the TV raise her kids. When we...

FH, I've heard the same thing. These bulls we were ultrasounding were linebred Emulous cattle.

I have a client who we ultrasound for that sells grass finished beef direct. He has carcass ultrasound, tenderness ultrasound and tenderness DNA testing done on all his bulls. By the time he gets all this done, he has quite a bit of money tied up in these bulls, but he says that his customers do...

Liberty Belle, Do you suppose that teacher could do a repeat performance in Bennett County? We'd pay for any repairs and provide a free steak dinner!!! Lions have about eleminated the white tail deer population here, as well as several colts, and one good saddle horse that it ran over a cliff...

Liberty Belle, If it's really you running for the legislature, that's good news. always nice to have someone with some backbone in our statehouse. Go for it!!! Anything we can do to help? :D :D :D

Lilly, You just have to keep at it with your salebarn. As little as 15 years ago, we weren't getting paid for pre-conditioning our calves in this area, but we keep giving the auctioneer our sheets stating what vaccines the calves had, and eventually the buyers took hold and started paying up for...