Recent content by Big Cheese

That's the kind of things I like to hear from other farmers and their Longhorns!

Its good to be back guys. I got to get back in the habit of checking this everyday lol. Hope everybody's cows are doing well after a pretty rough Winter nation wide.

I don't have any new pics to show. We had a drought last summer which led to a rough winter this past winter with not enough hay so our cows are thin at this point so I don't want to show off any of them lol. But our calves are coming along pretty well so far. Had a really good crop out of...

Thread has been quite for over a year....man this used to be an exciting thread lol what happened to everybody!

We have had Longhorn cattle for 4 years now and we are finally getting calves out of our heifers we retained from them. We breed our Longhorns to Charolais bulls and we kept those half breed heifers and bred them back to a Charolais. All of the calves out of our half breeds that we have had so...

Sounds like she is going to end up being a pretty good cow for you even with being bred to young. I had a heifer have a calf when she was 16 months old a couple of years ago while we had her in our heifer pen. We let her raise the calf, which ended not being much of a calf lol i got $200 for...

A few have this. We got them up Friday and gave all the ones that were showing signs of it LA200 and sprayed some spray in their eyes. We had one that had it really bad in both eyes so she was blind and after working them one eye has cleared up and as of yesterday the other eye was on its way...

We had an old timer tell us it could just be that they are getting seeds in their eyes and it is causing them to have these symptoms. But we are having a few get a white growth on their eye so it is just confusing to me. We have never had this since we got into using Longhorns a few years ago.

It has rained so much here over the last 2 weeks that at this point we can't use our corral until the mud and water dry up but what do yall use to get rid of pinkeye? Will it go away on its own?

We are having problems with some of our cattle's eyes. They are watering really bad and it looks alot like pinkeye but during this time of year I don't know if its pinkeye or not because our solid black heifers in our heifer pen are getting it as well. My question is are there any other eye...

All of our cows are average to above average to great cows. If they aren't they are culled out and replaced. We have been picking through our herd for 4 years now retaining and replacing and we have very few cows that don't produce really good calves. Now we have some cows that are getting...

I read the article and it is a very good article. There could be some truth to it but its different on our farm. Our cows range from 900-1300 pounds (with some bigger then that and smaller then that) and our smaller cows raise bigger calves then our bigger cows. The "small" heifers that we...

We have some 1/2 Balancer 1/2 Longhorn heifers that we retained when we bought a Longhorn herd a few years ago. There are about 8 of them I think. The 4 older ones have had their 2nd calf out of a Charolais bull and they are raising some really nice calves. One of them raised one of our...

I know some people that do that. Selling the best heifers brings in more money then selling the heifers that aren't as big. Also, some farmers are keeping the smaller heifers so that they will raise smaller cows and thus be able to run more cattle. More cattle means more calves which means...

When use the two piece tags with the black end that goes through the other end of the tag. We bought some cows that were tagged with those one piece tags and almost every single one of them has lost those tags. The two piece Duflex tags we hardly ever lose.