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Got Lil Lilly's Heifer heads trimmed.

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Wasn't near as bad as I thought it'd be. Only had one that wanted to find a impossibly small place to put her foot right before we turned her outta the chute.....right front foot was hung between the head gate and the floor, it's gotta gap in there that's just the right size. I hate it when somethin like that happens.....she's ok tho.
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Lil Lilly done some of em, and I done some of em.


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We got all five done in about an hour LOL not fastest time in the world, but they look perdy now. Other two ran off and were hidin behind a round bale, eatin.
 

HAY MAKER

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Those are good lookin heifers Lilly,and it looks like yall got em slicked up pretty good,quite a difference between the before and after pic's..............good luck
PS when I needa hair cut I know where ta head :D
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Any time your ready haymaker, we'll fire up the generator, and get out the nose pliers and give ya a trim. Hehe......just kiddin.
but I do get nominated to give the hair cuts around here when the guys need em. Speak'n of which, I shoulda got Mr Lilly in the chute......he needs a hair cut now.
 

ranch hand

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I hope you didn't clip the ears all the way as the flies sure bother the cattle then. Sure spruced them gals up. let us know how they do.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Their ears still have some hair, all we did was clean em up a lil bit, heck their ears didnt have that much hair on em anyway. I was really surprised at how the hair on the backs of their ears was thin. We've kept this set of heifers treated for flies on a monthly basis, haven't really had any trouble with flies on them. They get a dose of cylence at the first of every month LOL whether they need it or not. Plus they are on a good mineral program. Funny how that works. Seems to be when they are on a good mineral they don't have as many flies in general. And it's not the mineral that has the fly controll in it.
Faster horses??? have you noticed that?

Did notice tho that one of em has lost her bangs tag...they tattoo the ears too when they do the vaccinations, but I called the vet, waitin on him to get back with me on if we need to do anything about replacin that tag, or if they'll let her in with just the tattoo. I couldnt read the tattoo so we'll hafta wait n see when he calls me back on that. Gotta get all their health certificates too sometime this week.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Here's a couple pictures of a project she's been workin on when she's not ridin her horses, or workin with her critters. She'll enter this at the Fair in the Ag Mechanics, in the individual project division. All the stuff they took to the major shows were group projects. This project she's doin at home.
It's a hay feeder, that's designed to save the hay that would normally fall on the ground when feeding with a round bale feeder. I've read that 25% of 1 bale is wasted feedin in traditional round feeders. This will have a box under neath when finished that will catch the biggest majority of that hay that normally ends up on the ground. Will also have a covered roof when finished. It's comin along real nice. She's done all the cuttin and welding herself. Dad plays gopher, and "here hold this right here while I weld".

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HAY MAKER

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Those bale feeders are gonna be nice when lil Lilly gets through with em,that's somethin that oughta sell easy,with the hay shortages...........good luck

PS be kinda nice to keep track of your costs,compared to your hay savins,then figger how long it would take to pay for itself.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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With the price of hay what it is these days, won't take long. LOL Haven't sat down with all the reciepts for this project yet, to know what the total costs for construction will be yet. So far I think they've spent right at $200 for pipe and weldin supplies. The one we seen, for sale, made a lil different, was $1299.00. She won't have no where near that invested in this one when it's finished money wise.
 

HAY MAKER

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[
quote="the_jersey_lilly_2000"]With the price of hay what it is these days, won't take long
. LOL Haven't sat down with all the reciepts for this project yet, to know what the total costs for construction will be yet. So far I think they've spent right at $200 for pipe and weldin supplies. The one we seen, for sale, made a lil different, was $1299.00. She won't have no where near that invested in this one when it's finished money wise.[/quote]

Boy aint that a fact........and there aint nuthin like doin it yourself,her's sure looks like it is being built right,that lil lady is gettin mighty handy around the place,what kinda "Mig" is she using ?..........good luck
PS bought one the other day,and was sure surprised how easy they are to use.
 

Faster horses

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That's quite a little gal you got there, Lilly. Her bale design looks like it should work real good.

As for the flies and the mineral the reason you don't see as many flies on the cattle is because of the enhanced immune system of the cattle. If you had coa that was not up to par, you will see more flies on her. I know so, because it happened here. We had a heifer that had twin calves. During the summer she was fat, but didn't shed off real good. Casey, our Area Sales Manager was looking at the cows in the pasture and he noticed her. He asked what was wrong with her and we said, "nothing, why?" He pointed out all the flies on her compared to the other cows. So I went back and looked her up and she had twins when she calved. I called and told him what I had found and he said she had gotten hurt by them somehow and her immune system was depressed. I didn't believe him totally, but that fall that heifer was dry. She just couldn't do it all and her conception suffered as a result. He saw her immune system was lacking by the flies on her back.

We use Cylence for flies too. We give it at branding and after we pull the bulls. It lasts about a month and is sure reasonable to give. The applicator works really well too. You don't have to get them in an alley or a chute to give it. We sometimes just get them where they have to walk out a narrow gate and do it that way. The applicator shoots the Cylence out quite a ways. Our cattle won't eat enough mineral during the summer for the IGR fly contol to be effective, so that is why we use Cylence.
 

Northern Rancher

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I often wonder about treating an entire herd to catch the few individuals that are suffering-we missed treating one bunch of copws for lice one winter-they didn't look any worse than the ones that we'd spent 5 bucks a head on-we still try and pour our cows in the fall because our winters are so bad-but I feel they should be able to handle the bugs in the summertime-that heifer coming in dry was Mother Nature doing you a favour. You really see it when out of area cattle come up to graze-the flies and mosquitoes pretty much eat them up but the native cows do just fine.
 

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