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Nice bunch of cattle there George. Good bull too. You like his pedigree enough to keep daughters, he bred everything up and his calves are growing like gangbusters. With good cows and your feed resources I doubt a high dollar bull would pay for himself. I find bulls are expensive or more...

minus 28 and windy here this morning. Gonna be hard to dock a tail or slit an ear of anything born here today.

I've used the ones you speak of on long yearlings. Took about 6 weeks but worked.

I like to have some light oats/screenings to start my calves. I plunk out a creep feeder full of the stuff and rarely have one over load. Most don't even get loose. Pretty bulky feed, don't think you would hurt them @10 lbs. Wouldn't bother processing it, if they're screenings they are pretty...

I hear you on the ethics argument. FWIW their not looking calvey yet, shouldn't be too traumatic? I also should have worded the post subject differently, this being a public site and all. My fear is that if I take them to market they'll likely get bought cheap and put in a feedlot and needled...

Starvin' dog what would your heifers be weighing,calving date,and birth weight of your bull? 800npounds now, will calve april/may.

How much of a mess would I make if I needled 4-5 month bred heifers? Would a shot of estrumate and dex do it? Good bred heifers are selling @ about $1/pound or so it seems. Mine are too small for most and I think they'd dollar out better open. Crazy idea or no?

While I'm happy for all that get a good calf cheque, its discouraging to read of big prices knowing you'll get paid much less for your work. Around here a steer calf has to be 700 pounds and good to make $1000. I don't have any. I realize making business decisions based on envy isn't healthy...

I had a yearling stealing milk from cows so I put a quiet wean blab on her. It fixed the problem but eventually will have to come out. Will she go back to stealing? Been a couple weeks now.

Congratulations I'm sure to both of you. Calving my first thunder heifers now. Good mommas, super disposition and look like a cow already.

I think bulls in our climate have to be fed pretty good to be useful as a yearling. I've got a lot of respect for guys who can get them in "just right" condition. I had a dissapointing day of bull shopping yesterday too. I couldn't make the Sunday sale so signed up with the satellite guys. My...

Burnt posted about the loss of a heifer in a hay feeder, pretty common occurance I'm afraid. What are some of the more bizarre situations you've seen cattle get themselves into? I was going away for a while and thought I'd swing through the cows before leaving. Got a small working corral with a...

How did the herefords sell in the last sale? They advertised 175 bred heifers that were destined to Khasakstan(sp) where the deal fell through.

You might want to have a few 330 conibears around for when that half couger/fisher thing you posted pictures of comes back through.

I've tried raising my own but the hard part for me is that you have to like them every day of the year. Some have different growth curves etc. and may look poor for a while. Maybe my pen is too close to the chute because none have made maturity yet. That being said I've got a few calves still...

Trap him. The bee keepers here use a heavy cable foot snare in a five gallon pail mounted to a tree. Looks pretty safe around dogs, calves etc. Better to get woke up than have to stay up.

I think I'll go with timed AI and and heat detect the repeats. I've got a little bull calf who will be about 7 months old to help me heat detect. He should have the interest but not the goods. It's the ones with subtle heat signs that bug me. Was she on last night or is she just coming in...

Thought of a jersey, they can be bought pretty cheap and have lots of libido. Don't wanna get killed by a dairy bull though, they are supposedly mean little bast@rds!

Here's my idea. I've got some heifers to breed and sell, and to differentiate them from the other gazzillion being bred I might guarantee them A.I. bred. Would sync and breed them and run a gomer bull with a chin ball marker for a few weeks to mark the repeats. I've used a 'juiced up' open cow...

I was thinking the same thing miocene as far as culling criteria. Will no doubt get worse going forward with these prices. How bad would a calf have to be to get cut? How much temptation would there be to shave a few pound off a heavy birthweight to gain 5 grand? A local breeder has been...