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Calves

katrina

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Apriland May calves

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A lad calf

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Checking me out.

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For Northern Rancher.

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Red calf for all you red people.

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Guess who?

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Pet me...

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It's Sunshine the bucket calf!

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Nice red hiefier

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Ok f1

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Son says this is our new bull prospect. :wink:

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hiefier calf

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Nice steer..

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another steer.

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Maybe a replacement hiefier

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gcreekrch

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Those calves are doing great Katrina, they are a lot fleshier than ours. What kind of a ration are they on? How big of a pen?
 

katrina

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Big pen... Several acres... We call it the hog patch... Don't ask me why..
Corn silage and ground hay... Are they too fat?
 

burnt

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Those are some soggy looking calves! That Lad calf looks real good. Do they have a touch of ringworm? When I have seen it on ours in the past, I nailed a burlap bag or a hunk of canvas to a wooden post and soaked it with used motor oil. The calves rub on it and it seems to clear it up really fast.
 

katrina

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burnt said:
Those are some soggy looking calves! That Lad calf looks real good. Do they have a touch of ringworm? When I have seen it on ours in the past, I nailed a burlap bag or a hunk of canvas to a wooden post and soaked it with used motor oil. The calves rub on it and it seems to clear it up really fast.

Yes...... :gag: Like by the gate going to water?? Sounds like a good idea.
 

gcreekrch

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katrina said:
Corn silage and ground hay... Are they too fat?

Depends on what you are doing with them. I personnaly don't like to see replacement heifers too fat before grass. It makes no sense to me but grass cattle that are a little on the green side will dollar out more per head than comparable quality cattle that are the same frame and 100 lbs heavier.
Ours are not carrying as much flesh as I would like but they are growing well. They are on long hay, a little oat silage, and 3 lbs of 14% pellets. They are in a 40 acre field. Heifers are starting to cycle now so we will be sorting the steers off soon.
 

katrina

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Our son has written stories about sunshine. And I think there is a poem too. :D :D And he needs halter broke so our son says.
Although while he is at school I think dad and I will band him.
 

John SD

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burnt said:
Those are some soggy looking calves! That Lad calf looks real good. Do they have a touch of ringworm? When I have seen it on ours in the past, I nailed a burlap bag or a hunk of canvas to a wooden post and soaked it with used motor oil. The calves rub on it and it seems to clear it up really fast.

I asked about ringworm on another site recently. My WF calves seem to be going through a ringworm phase now. I realize ringworm is mostly a cosmetic problem and will eventually go away on it's own. Some of the recommended home remedies suggested were topical treatments of iodine, chlorine bleach, or used oil. My corrals are full of snow so it probably will go away on it's own. :roll:
 
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