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When I was raising dairy calves it wasn't uncommon to have one bloat every now and then we would put it off milk for twelve hours or one feeding and tube feed it just water a couple times during the day. We had really good luck with that process and we call know how weak hearted a dairy calf is...

I hope you are getting paid to feed them. That is pretty hay to be wasting on an elk. Don't get me wrong I like elk even more when they are sitting in my frying pan but to many times I am seeing wildlife take a priority cover wildlife. Didn't mean to hijack your tread they are cool pictures

I am running a bunch of waygus for a guy and I am not impressed by the breed in fact they act just like a Holstein travel all over the place and dumb they are scared of their own shadow. I wish your daughter the best of luck with her because I know the Holstein has know maternal instinct and I...

Up high behind the hip bone. I would say that 95% turn out the only time we have trouble reading them is in the winter when they are all haired up other than that you can read them pretty clear

We use five inch brands that are 5/8 wide. We brand our bulls as yearlings with two numbers on the hip and have room for at least one more if not two. As for branding what I have found to work best for us is clip wash with alcohol and hold the brand on the animal for one minute. All we have ever...

Not to be bragging but we really don't have much trouble with our heifers mothering where we run into trouble is when the calf is a couple days old and the heifer is trying to mother every calf in the lot. I will say this though I am a believer in having a sire that carries the maternal instinct...

I could begin to count the cattle that i have seen dead stuck between two trees make me wonder what they were thinking. The best i have ever seen is we had an old braham angus cross that hated to be around people well one day we were gathering cows off some mountian ground that one side was a...

That looks like what i went through last night only these heifers had their calves in the worst place in the corral :mad: . I hope summer comes and dries the mud up real soon.

There are several ways to test for johnes a couple of them are blood milk feces and a tissue sample ( notch from ear) . Being in the dairy business where those disease caring things get every thing known to man kind you need to be carefull with what kind of animals you buy. If you buy an animal...

To answer some question the feeder is a kirby and you can go two wide on 4-4 bales or three wide on 3-3 bales we bought it used nd boy it is nice because our winter permit is so poor this year i am feed around three hundred cows with this feeder i am doing it in about an hour and a half

Well I got camera happy today and got some pictures of the daily chores and new comers to the world This is my new toy I got for christmas Looking towards the back from the deck Looking at the business end A couple bred heifers waiting for the welfare wagon And here comes the rest to...

When you get done with figuring you can come down and finish out the pot with some of my bred hiefers

I like both breeds but i have a question for all you that use simmies on angus? What percent of your calf crop have rat tails? You see we had simmie cows and were breeding them to angus bulls and i bet half of the calf crop would be rat tail the buyers would always cut the back even though they...

I wouldn't worry to much a about abortions in the first trimester. We truck ours all over during breeding season some go as far as 200 miles haven't had any problems.

Not to sound mean but when a holstein decides to died there is nothing that you can do for them. I would try to drench it with nothing more that luke warm water for a day or we have found that just water is the best thing for them. We have this happen a couple times a year with our calves look...

When i was younger i use to check cows for a couple of different guys and i was charging a flat rate of $100 a week and that intelled checking on them twice a week setting salt out and doctoring anything sick. I didnt have to doctor very many and the cows were next to our own so it really wasnt...

H that country looks familiar looks like you picked a warm day to trail them :D. Mark the last week of april down on your calender that is when I will gathering ours off the desert maybe we can help each other or just sit down and shoot the bull

If a guy would have known we would have calved in january when the ground was dry and bear :D

We are at 25 degrees right now and it is very calm and pretty with the moon out and reflecting off the snow I reallly don't need a flash light tonight but it does make feel alittle more secure if I have to turn it into a club :? We are half way done with our heifers as of this after noon I...

We might all be whinning right now on the price of cows and bulls but I am willing to bet that this fall we will all be grinning from ear to ear when we get that big pay check. I had a guy offer me 1.68 last week for 650 weight steer calves that haven't even been born yet makes you wonder what...