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We run a DewEZE Pivot bed and had a parallel squeeze before that. Pros and cons to each. We have only ever run Dew Eze beds and they have been pretty tough. Biggest thing we learned was that a 1 ton is nowhere near heavy enough. Biggest improvement in the deck was upsizing to a 550 truck (They...

Can't seem to make the page into a picture, but take a look here. https://beefimprovement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/BIFGuidelinesFinal_updated0318.pdf On page 31.

This is an interesting discussion. I am not sure the GRSB certification is any more or less than any other certification at this point, although I can certainly see it being driven ahead by various industry players and maybe even becoming the "standard". For the record we are certified in Canada...

We moved cows this weekend on a windy but relatively warm day. The Pied Piper Method worked with the bale deck and a wheel of DDGS. But I was not brave enough to drive across here (I know I can make it down...). Had to get my helper. It was warm enough to take off my gloves and get a couple of...

The yard staff must be pretty good with how quietly they come into the ring and that is a very nice set of calves. We just sold ours out of the yard this week to a verified program. Weighed when we boostered and will bring them in in about another week, sort and load out.

Nice pics. Just thinking that toy would serve as a good blueprint for dad to weld up a ranger size track in a couple of years.

Sure do. Anything we help at calving for any reason (even a heifer) gets an orange ear tag and then it goes in the fall regardless of the resulting calf. We are a bit odd in that we don't tag anything (other than purebreds) at birth, but we tag and DNA at processing. If we treat a calf we put...

That's almost worth listing the calves right off the cow! Nice to have a time consuming chore gone for the right price. I think sometimes twinning is exacerbated by forage conditions peaking (rain or other factors being just right) just as breeding season starts, and especially so if cows are...

I would kind of echo what FH said, although we use the numbers extremely heavily in our selection, we use them to find consistent type and not necessarily the biggest numbers. In other words we use numbers and pedigree to help lock down type. By finding values that work for us and repeatedly...

Neighbour built a big feeder out of an old air seeder cart. Holds lots, and was super cheap to build. Not sure if he pulls it with the truck or not.

We built a nifty feed dispenser for the bale deck this summer out of an old fuel tank. It will hold a lot of feed, and you could build it bigger if you manufacture your own. I will try to grab some pics, or google Nifty Feed Dispenser.

Interesting thread. My 2 cents would be that the skills that apply to handling livestock apply nearly equally as well to working with people, just the flight zone is tougher to gauge. I agree with the pre-flow thought when it comes to working cattle. I had the cool opportunity to be a speaker...

We are similar to GCreek. We feed test every year as we do a lot on shares and buy some feed in and it is handy to know what you are short of or long on. We then use that to adjust our custom mineral. We do a lot of our heifer development on winter grazing so we sample the grass too. Mineral...

Nice pics Soap. It looks like a nice lazy day... I have always disliked halter broke bulls and lead broke bulls even more. I think the reduction in their flight zone can create some quite dangerous situations and bulls that are broke to lead have the whole flight zone thing ass backwards...

Struggle here. Started in a snow storm, had another storm about a week later (after 2 nice days). Lost quite a few calves. It was wet and cold and frustrating. I spent a week covered in mud and burned more fuel checking cows over Easter than I used all winter feeding 500 head. a calf had...

Interesting topic. We test all of our bulls, the ones we sell and the ones we use ourselves. Age has a big impact on semen tests, but also mineral programs, excercise, diet, genetics, weather, etc. I would be kind of nervous turning out bulls that were not tested, especially if a dominant...

This is an interesting topic to me. In the Great White North a lot of work and emphasis has been placed on scrotal size. In the last year of two the Society of Theriogenology updated the minimum scrotal requirements and added an extra centimetre to the requirements for yearling bulls. Scrotal...

Good Story. Stories where nothing happens are neither good stories or learning experiences!

That is nearly exactly what we have evolved to here. We bale graze calves in pasture/hay fields with a mixture of hay/greenfeed bales and supplement with grain or pellets (whichever is cheaper). We use portable windbreaks for shelter, although the bales provide good shelter as well. We waste...

I know some folks that use the rings with good effect. For those interested, here are some recent numbers from our last trial round of bale grazing. These are bales placed on a site that was grazed 2 years previously, then grazed last winter. From my latest report... "the average production...