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We pulled a dead calf a few weeks ago from a small heifer from the same scenario...calf was not too big...heifer was just too small. It was all my fault...just was not paying attention and by the time we noticed, heifer was too far along to abort. :( I am thankful we did not lose the heifer...

Great pics...especially Donkey-o-tee! Would love to have that barn... ;-) Stay after that graduate degree...and thanks for serving our country! Van

Pretty baby... :D I like her mom as well. I have a gelding paint that looks a lot like your mare. Is she registered? Van

I would not use it! PM me and I will provide my mailing address and you can send it to me for proper disposal. :P

April 1, 1994: 11:30AM: Departed Beloit, Kansas in a turbine powered ag plane and lost engine at about 200 feet. Ran out of altitude and ideas at just about the same time... :shock: Crashed into an empty hanger...broke my nose, 5 teeth, left collar bone in two, left shoulder blade, every rib...

Yep, what Suzie David said! Like most things in life, the first time you do it, seems difficult...or at least to me it did...now do it without thought or effort. :D Van

Carried our hereford heifer (19 months old) back to the vet yesterday for a follow-up...she is 3-3 1/2 months bred and doing well, although the vet did mention she was a bit vertically challenged (short) ;-). I then went and weighed her...now 980 lbs, a gain of 140 lbs from Dec. 16th for an...

Good things come to those who wait! ;-)

He is so tight he eats cheese and drinks never leak! People are like dogs...let one get started and ain't long the whole bunch is barking. Hotter than a 44 shootin uphill. If it was easy, they would let women and children do it...

Did the calf arrive OK? :?: Oh, the suspense... ;-) Van

I agree with preston...no way this baby is 6 months. Alice and I have one that looks very much like her and she is smaller than our herefords, but growing well. I am a novice as well; however, this is what I would do with her... Give her a shot of A, D & E and B complex vitamins, hit her with...

Backhoe...don't see how you made it all day... :shock: I stayed with it until the wind started moving the Polaris and trailer! Figured I had had enough...my eyes are swollen and sore this morning, although I am headed out to see how many t-post blew down... :lol: I lived in Lubbock for a...

If it won't use the litter box, just install a "doggie door" so it can run outside when the urge hits....HOWEVER, please post a pic of it when you get it installed... :lol: And, I don't see anything wrong with his choice of attire...looks a bit like what I lay around in myself! :shock: Van

What breed of calf is this? (just curious) If the calf is bad dehydrated, his eyes will be sunken in his head. Pinch his/her? skin up...if it stays up, another way to tell how dehydrated it is. As Alice said previoiusly, dehydration kills em, not the scours. Although, I have seen my...

We have three bulls in an area I placed a two-wire electric fence around. Grass was getting low so I extended the area to about three times the size, having to take down one run of wire...the bulls would walk up to where the old wire was and just stand and look at the tall grass on the other...