balestabber said:
your cattle look good standing at the feed bunk.but i have a dumb question.
i don't see any flies,or bees or birds,,,,feeding that molasses here would surely draw something.and your cattle all have good eyes.
wondered if your cattle are treated,or if the bramers are just resistant to the outside parasites to an extent.i noticed even where you store the sorhgum is OPEN bins.but no birds.
Interesting observation balestabber and for the most part, very accurate.
While the sorghum was still in the field I did have daily flocks of small emerald-green parakeets feeding on the stuff. Not much one can do about that problem though. Once harvested, I've not seen any problems with birds trying to rob grain from storage.
And our insect problems are also very manageable as well. We do have flies, and even some mosquitos, but nothing really bad and nothing like the mosquitos I experienced back in Louisiana. Once the rains come we get a lot of gnats, but they're more of a buzzing nuisance than any real problem.
The Brahman blood does make these mestizo cattle more resistant to local parasites though having said that these cattle were all sprayed for ticks and injected for internal parasites as well.
Here's a thread I started when I bought this lot of animals. There's some better pics of the typical mestizo cattle in the original post.
http://www.ranchers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47377&highlight=mestizo