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Our registered herd get the year then the order of birth. First calf of 2013 is 1301 first commercial calf is A01. We also put sire number on top and dam on bottom with calf number in center. Another thing we do is registered calves get a green tag commercial get a white tag. Makes it easier...

I found this information on the NCBA website! for anyone that want to donate. I have been asking people if they have heard about the blizzard the reply is usually yea I heard it was a bad storm (on the weather channel) no one had heard about the devastating losses for ranchers in the path of...

I just want to breed good cattle, we have purebred and commercial the main thing is are they worth keeping or not. All of us are trying to raise the best animal we can that meets the needs of our individual operation as well as the needs of our customer. I Gizmom

Looks to me like you folks could give lessons on efficiency! Great job! Gizmom http://www.gizmoangus.com

We don't get the vet to do it but we don't check that many in a day either. Do you ultrasound of manually palpate? I would think the vets arm would give out doing that many in a day. For us we were happy with the % bred, We still want to tighten up the calving but after discussing it with Dr...

We spent the past two days pregnancy checking 110 head of cows and heifers. We had 106 called safe with about 90% of those in the 90-120 day range. We are going to be busy the end of September and first part of October. Not only will our cows be keeping us busy our son Jacob and his wife...

Dr. Cliff Lamb UF did a demo of freeze branding at our farm in January. He did hands on utilizing both nitrogen and dry ice methods. You can read about it and see pictures on our blog site http://www.gizmoangus.blogspot.com Since the demo we have done two groups the first group with the dry...

Our grass is good from April through the end of June. By mid July it has really gone south on us. We are able to plant winter rye which is really good and it starts coming up about December and will last until April, when the weather is right. This year winter grazing hasn't done well at all...

And I have to admit I love every minute of it! If we didn't have challenges wouldn't life be dull. I see some of the pictures you guys post and just can't imagine what it is like for you in the winter. I honestly don't know if I would be in the cattle business, I am a wimp when it comes to...

I would agree, our summer is the heavy stress time for our cattle. We may need to look at moving our calving. At this point we start in the middle of September, (and it is still hot) if we were stictly commercial I would say we need to calve in January, however all of the registered bull sales...

Having been to Montana (only once and loved it) I can tell you that it isn't a thing like Florida. We were there in August, I never broke a sweat IN AUGUST! I just can't imagine that here in August you step outside and within minutes your soaking wet, it is like walking in a sauna. You know...

Big Muddy Where are you located? I see it is the big Muddy Valley but being geographally challenged your gonna have to tell me where that is. Gizmom

Faster Horses, thanks for the input, we are not going for 90 days our goal is 60. The cows calving outside the 60 day range will be removed. I don't know that we can do better than 60 days here in Florida. I have discussed this with Dr. Lamb who is with the University of Florida beef unit, and...

I just finished up calculating(I hope I did it right I suck at math) our calving season for our 2010 calf crop. We bred 87 head, sold one as a bred cow, had two lose calves at calving and two slip calves after we palpated. We have 82 calves on the ground based on exposure dates 63% of these...

I use the AIMS program from the Angus association. I know it was developed for Angus but I use it for my commercial herd as well and it works for me. It is pretty user friendly much more so now than back when I started using it. The folks at the Angus association support area are great to...

Gizmo Pride 1028 501 5X25 Gizmo Pride 1028 5X25 Gizmo Pride 1025 065 5X25 Gizmo Pride 1025 065 5X25 We used 5X25 lightly last year, we liked the calves so I used him a little more this year. My husband likes the 1025 heifer, I like the 1028 I think both are going to be really nice cows...

I just finished a blog on the bulls we have consigned to the Alabama BCIA Fall Round Up and genetic verified heifer sale. Check it out http://www.gizmoangus.blogspot.com I have put pictures and registration numbers of the bulls we will be taking. I am not the greatest picture taker but I tried...

I remember a time when Florida had even more listed, the cow calf numbers here have really dropped over the past ten years. Urban encroachment has been a major factor. The good news is the operations that are still here have really improved the quality of the cattle they are producing. And we...

You can get potential carrier report now through your log in on the Angus Web site. I am so sick of trying to test for all these defects! Gizmom

Got a call from the vet this morning just to let me know that all of my bulls are neg. for Trich. I started thinking how many folks actually test for this in the southeast. It also gave me subject to blog about so check out the latest blog on Trichomoniasis at...