Late July, 2010

[Soapweed]

Cooling their heels in the hot summertime

In my younger days I helped load cattle out of this corral.

It actually worked quite well at the time.

Getting cattle in to vaccinate sick calves

Portable panels in the pasture

A pickup and trailer makes a good wing.

All set up and ready to go

Wearing chaps on a hot day for kickin' kalf protection

Calves to vaccinate

Cows waiting for their babies

Vaccinator and secretary

Hard working ladies

Two-gun Sally

The set-up in all its splendor

From the front

Even though it's a very hot day, the crew still seems happy.

Loading up when the job is done

Mobilized and ready to travel

 

[katrina]

Soap... What are ya giving your sick calves?? My horse trimmer man said that he helped doctor some sick calves for a friend.. so you ain't the lone ranger on this one.... He was saying that it was all the wet weather... Yes??

 

[Silver]

Good looking setup Soap, looks to be pretty handy. What is wrong with the calves?

 

[salt grass flats]

I have had the same situation this week also Soapweed, Had to run the one pasture through, Used the same set-up with panels as you. Had some good neighbors we recruited tohelp us. The vet thinks I probably have some cows that are carriers. I used 10cc Baytril 100, and 5 cc of Banimine on the real sick ones and they all got 10cc of Pro LA 300, plus a shot of vibra-shield 6 and a pasturella booster. We brought 3 calves back from the brink of death with this, Now three days later the whole bunch looks alot better.

 

[Cedarcreek]

Hate to see you have to doctor sick calves, but doing the bunch like that is better than losing some of them. We rarely have sick calves this time of year unless it's hot, dry and dusty. The we can get dust pneumonia. We vaccinate the calves with Pyramid 4 with Presponse to get the pasturella at branding. I think it helps get through this time of year without problems. Since I have already sold my calves on Superior as all natural having to give them antibiotics now would make a mess of my marketing.

Kind shows that it wouldn't be quite as handy to run cattle with out portable corral on your place or mine.

Sure enjoy the pictures.

 

[Soapweed]

We gave the sickest ones 4 cc of Draxxin, and the rest 15 cc of Biomycin, besides a preventative pasteurella shot of Once PMH. This is the worst year we've ever had, by far, for summer sickness. We gave a preventative shot for pasteurella at branding time, and I am now wondering if it did more harm than good. :?

 

[Faster horses]

I'm like you, Soapweed. I think the jury is still out on the pasturella
shot as near as I have been able to find out.

 

[Shortgrass]

You missed a good show at Cheyenne, but looks like you got your calves done. We ended up taking our grandsons, and really had a great time.