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    Ailments in eyes of Cattle

    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...
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    Cow Breeding Back Question...

    I have been noticing a couple of our older cows(short and solid cows) that aren't breeding back on time and when I say on time I mean not breeding back until the current calf is around 8 months old. As most of you know that is not acceptable but my question is what could be causing this? We...
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    What is this?

    We have a Charolais Bull that has developed at lump under his jaw. It was very big to start out but now its like a softball or bigger. I was just wondering what everyone thinks it could possibly be. Probably going to call the vet this coming week to see what he thinks as well but I wanted to...
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    Cow Breeding Back After Pulling Backwards Calf

    I just want to get yalls opinion on this matter and see what answers I get to better help with my decision. We had to pull a calf last night that was coming out backwards. We somehow and with luck got the calf out but unfortunately it didn't make it even though we did feel it move while trying...
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    Debruycker Charolais Bulls

    As most of you know....we run Longhorn cows with Charolais bulls. We have three really good Charolais bulls as of now but we will probably be needing another one around March or April since we are going to be expanding our herd. We are wanting to add another Charolais bull and an older guy in...
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    Sale Barn Buyers Critique

    I've been looking to post a picture of a calf for buyers on here to critique and couldn't find a place to post it so I figured I would just make one lol. Anyways...this thread is for CT posters to post pictures of calves that are close to being sold or weaned and for the posters that do a lot...
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    Commercial Fertilize, Lime, or Chicken Litter???

    We are in the beginning process of putting fertilize on our pastures. We have access to buying all of the Commericial we want and also all the lime we want. We also will have access to some Chicken Litter later on in the summer. My question to y'all is which is better to use?? We haven't...
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    AgriLabs Stress Mate?

    Has anybody ever used AgriLabs Stress Mate? Our mentor has started using it and said it is great. We had a calf born during the big ice/sleet/snow/rain storm yesterday morning and we didn't think it was going to make it. Brought it in the house and dried it off, tubed down Colostrum, shot of...
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    Week old calf just up and dying?

    We had a week old calf just up and die yesterday. Its momma was a crazy one and kept it way off by itself since its been born and would barely let us get close to it so we weren't able to tell if it was sick or not. We have had bad weather of late as well. Different then usual for this time...
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    Breeding Heifers and Calves Birthweight

    In y'alls opinions, What is the highest birthweight you would want for a first time heifer??
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    Tell Your Story!!

    A lot of the topics have quieted down that I normally look and comment on and I'm a little bored so I thought I would start this topic in the meantime. I would like to hear stories about cattle from everyone. You can tell the story about how you got started, what breed you started with, how...
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    First Longhorn Cross Calves of 2015!

    We are starting to have our first calves of the new year! We had our first one on New Years day and I haven't got a picture of it yet but we had another a couple of days later and I was able to get a quick picture of it a few days after it was born during the rain. We are starting off with...
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    Cow not drying up before next calf

    I have a young cow about to have her second calf in a month or so and she lets every calf in the pasture suck her and we weaned her calf in October and she still letting the calves do that and she still hasn't dried up. Will this cause problems with her next calf or will she wean the other...
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    Charolais-Longhorn Cross

    Hey guys and gals, I've been reading y'alls post for a few months now since I've been working in front of a laptop and I really enjoy reading them and I have gained a lot of knowledge from them. So I decided to register and create an account so I can start asking some of my questions that I...
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