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    one less problem

    mine all went to the neighbors yesterday so once caught and loaded I just turned out with cows 10 days early but next spring is going to be nice
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    Small ranch: Sell or keep heifers for beef

    yeah this place needs Cory back at least he would peck a fight and stir things up. Life's pretty short when you think about it.
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    Small ranch: Sell or keep heifers for beef

    oh you know build trailers run cows. A few weddings and 5 grand kids so busy busy our youngest son Lane graduated last year so he's working in the shop and on the farm. This place has sure fizzled from what it once was.
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    Small ranch: Sell or keep heifers for beef

    I myself would find a sucker and sell them all at a premium. Then I would buy some good angus cattle so the day you really need some money you will have a salable animal at you local livestock auction. If you don't need to make money then keep on keeping on and build a bull pen. Either get in...
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    Heritability of phenotype.

    65% nutrition 35% genetics
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    Heritability of phenotype.

    you can't change them without changing them
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    Calving in the cold

    I've had 4 in the last month 2 were born on a negative 30 night out on the bedding pack with the rest of the cows . My plan for that day was move the cows to the corral and haul 3 of them home needless to say when I got there they were dried off up and nursing all 4 have been born on the...
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    4-9wt calves

    We have all of our steer calves and 1/2 of the heifers yet. We are going to feed them until mid march. Corn silage,wet potatoes, DDG, ground hay,some ground corn and a mineral mix. My son is graduating high school this spring and I think a feedlot is the only thing that will keep him here as...
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    Beginner Interested In cattle

    around here the cows are plenty cheap already. 40 to 50 kill cows and $900 to $1400 breds with a few special groups bringing more money but last week you could have laid in a herd at the bred cow sale for under $900 average..
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    More Bovine Tuberculosis

    If that outbreak would have happened in mn the whole state would have been shunned just like the last time by every state that borders us but once in those states its no big deal hypocrits.
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    Delivering DDGS to the herd?

    They get heavy. My two feeding tractors go 27 mph I drive about 3.5 miles each day each way its not so bad and tractors were made for this work pick-ups not so much
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    Delivering DDGS to the herd?

    I would buy an older mixer wagon I have a Patz 240 we gave $1500 for at least 7 years ago found a gehl on craigslist my friend bought for $1800 then your feeding options are endless and they have scales on them. Of course you'd have to drive a tractor so the cowboy costume would need to be...
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    Delivering DDGS to the herd?

    my neighbor feeds it on the ground and has about zero waste they lick the dirt clean to get every morsel of course the ground is frozen. Put it in a grinder mixer and feed it out the discharge auger.
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    Heifer development

    ours had free choice alfalfa, free choice grass hay and free choice silage and salt no mineral we had about 40 bred ewes with them all winter everyone looks fine and healthy.
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    How'd calving go?

    Never heard of a Hereford with to much milk that's a new one for me ha ha. Just kidding we went to later calveing and that's the one thing it does sorts the poor udders.
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    Cow ?

    Yeah drive the truck out there today VB.
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    Angus

    Most angus Operations don't breed they multiply the "HOTTEST" bulls of the time normally which will have a very high $B in which they normally will have a very low -$E. They breed by fads and numbers hence multiply AI is a great tool but over used in the seed stock industry hence multipliers. I...
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    Angus

    They do its the multipliers that don't.
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    feeding

    A voice of reason Merry Christmas H
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    feeding

    I've got springs on my land which is nice they feed into drainage ditches on one end of the place and a shallow creek on the other the last 2 years I chopped ice a total of 16 days. I prefer the creek end of the place as it has more winter cover.
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