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I don't know if my arrangement makes sense, but I will rent a bull out under the understanding that the animal never comes back to my place. I will rent the same bull to the person for $500 a year and they have to provide room and board for the entire year. When they are done with him I get...

We used Salers when I was a kid. They made great mothers in a 3/4 RA 1/4 Saler cross. I remember on more than one occasion resorting to locking them in a stock trailer to hold them until they calmed down because there was no fence high enough or stout enough that they could not go through or...

I think far too many steers are kept intact. We have raised many of our own bulls over the years and I have found that I need to start with 3-4X the number of bulls that I end up with to have something worth keeping. I currently have about 18 bull calves in my lot that will ultimately be...

We are using the Allflex half duplex tags and so far, 2+ years, I haven't lost a single one. It is critical that they are placed properly. We used some Destron Fearing for the Superior Verified program we were selling our steers on. I placed them too far away from the head of the animal and I...

We started using bang's tag EIDs a couple of years ago. At that time I also tagged all of my cows with Allflex half duplex tags. I primarily use them, at the present time, to speed weighing as they go through the chute. I also have used them for IDing cows when they lose their VID tag. All...

We put them on the same backgrounding ration that we have the steers on after they are weaned. Once there is enough grass in the spring they are turned out. They graze that until the winter grazing is ready. The last couple of years our winter graze has been frost killed sudan grass and...

Just getting started. We are running about 2:1 heifers to bulls. Not such a great deal when I was hoping to keep some bulls out of my AIing.

I wouldn't turn a bull out without a test. $100/test may seem like you are wasting your money, but how much are the calves worth that you won't have because the bull is either shooting blanks or has problems with quality? Penny wise and pound foolish in my mind. There is a good chance that I...

The "settled science" of larger scrotal size leading to earlier puberty in daughters is now being questioned as more recent research is indicating the correlation to be more tenuous than thought. There are a whole host of other factors that I look at long before I ever get to the point of...

"Heritage" breeds go along with organic, all natural and locally produced. For some reason there is a romantic attachment to nostalgia that precludes dispassionate thought and judgement. Things are not necessarily better because they belong to a previous time or generation. There are a lot of...

You have to pump it more than you think you should have to since the force of the impact is what triggers the charge to expel the drugs. I use a minimum of five pumps regardless of syringe size. Five pumps at about 30-40 feet with a 7 cc dart works well for me. If I need to use a bigger...

I could no longer keep up the facade. What's worse is that I even run them with my cattle. I am so ashamed. :lol: :lol: :lol:

When my grandfather got out of the army after WWII he and his brothers purchased some purebred Hereford cows which formed the nucleus of our herd. Through the years we tried various different crossbreeding schemes that used among other things a brief foray into the old time Simmental. We have...

Calving is about 75% done and I can actually start to think about other things. Here are a few pictures I took today while checking for new babies. The last three slackers of my first calf heifers. We exposed every yearling heifer last year through natural service. I turned the bulls in for...

No matter how much you study and work on stockmanship, some days the wheels come off and there isn't a whole lot you can do about it but get up the next day and do it all over again.

Goat jokes never get old. In fact, when you do go I expect it to be in a tragic goat milking accident.

$1000 of goat equipment ought to set you up pretty nice. Maybe you can start a goat dairy with that much equipment.

I have a few bred heifers that need sold and I was wondering what websites you guys have used that you have had success with. I put an ad up on cattle-exchange, but wondered if there were some others that might get me a better response.

I have always wondered why I can't afford to raise my own replacements, but someone else can afford to raise replacements and sell them to me. Apparently the people raising replacements for sale to others are doing it out of a sense of altruism because they must also be losing money doing it as...

I have used Beefmaker, Red Ceasar, and Remington Winchester as well as a couple of bulls out of STF Dominance and Top Gun. I would stay as far away from any sire going back to Dominance as I could. I have had nothing but trouble with those cattle, mainly due to disposition. You can't really...