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I didn't see this thread when I just posted about my own very similar dilemma. What did you end up doing AZAggie?

I've got a 20 acre field that I've ran over with a disc to prepare a seedbed for broadcast seeding ryegrass on. I want to use the 20 acre ryegrass field to help supplement winter hay feeding to my cows. I've already purchased the ryegrass and have my 3pt broadcast seeder ready to go, but here's...

Hard to make things pencil out in this market, especially if you're having to buy feed to over-winter them. I've heard of guys holding out, waiting for the market to correct, but the way prices have been going doesn't look like an uptick will happen anytime soon. The closer we get to winter a...

Here's where I got the info: https://rangeplants.tamu.edu/plant/silverleaf-nightshade/ https://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/ethnobot/images/silverleaf.html Maybe I shouldn't have mowed it down, I might be sitting on a gold mine..

Today I mowed one of my pastures with a lot of toxic horsenettle/silverleaf nightshade that popped up during this drought we're having here in Texas. The weed is toxic to cattle even once it's dried (an animal can be poisoned by eating 0.1 to 0.3 percent of its weight). My cows don't touch it...

I ended up cutting my field Thursday afternoon and baled it up today. I only have an old disc mower, no tedder, but at 1:00 this afternoon I went out to check on how things were doing and all the mowed down grass went crackle crackle in my hands so I decided to rake it up and bale it. We've had...

The 10 day forecast is now showing only 10-20% rain chances between now and next Tuesday. I'm really debating if it's worth trying to cut some or all tonight and hope that it has enough time to dry.

I'm in the county next door to you in north Hunt county. I cut a little bit of hay last week during the small dry window as I needed to test out some equipment before tackling my larger fields. I couldn't cut any more due to all the rain we got this past Saturday and my ground is still saturated...

Army worms. There's another thread here about them, they are horrible this year.

This is the worst I've ever seen. I had a pasture that I was saving for fall grazing and went out today and it's pretty much gone. There were no worms 2 days ago but we got a big rain and boom. I went ahead and moved my cows on what's left of the grass to get what they can before the worms take...

I inherited a Kuhn GMD 600 disc mower from the 90's, it ran fine a couple of years ago and was parked in a field ever since. I went to hook up to it today and tried to lift the mower vertical for transport and the hydraulic cylinder just sprayed hydraulic fluid out of both ends of the cylinder...

I took a cow to the sale barn this past weekend and got to looking at my ticket stub and noticed the sale barn hand wrote "Red rannie" on the description. The cow is red in color but what does the rannie mean? I can't find that term anywhere. Am I reading the handwriting wrong?

What vaccines are you all using on your cattle? I'm using vaccines for Blackleg and one for Viral/Lepto. In addition I'm deworming with a pour on, fly tags when flies get heavy, and band castrating with a shot of tetanus. I have antibiotics set aside for foot rot and pinkeye. Wondering if I need...

I was told by a local cattleman that often when the cows die they bloat up and this causes what I thought was a prolapsed rectum in my picture. She could have only been dead for a couple of hours as I saw her up around 1:00 pm and found her dead at 5:00 pm. Can the animal bloat that much in such...

Does anyone have any recommendations for for what I should do with her orphaned 4 month old calf? Pen him up and provide calf starter rations?

I do unwrap all my bales. The farmer that I acquired my cattle from in December 2016 did not and he had hay string embedded all in his fields. From time to time we do find hay string in our fields from the previous farmers who did not pick up after themselves, as well as random bits of hardware...

Yesterday I noticed one of my cows was a little sluggish coming up for feed. The day before she was fine. My cows have been on hay since November. She was up and walking around this morning but still seemed a little off. I saw her standing with her tail held up and out a few times and figured...

$645 in gross sales. I was surprised myself, figured I might get $50 a head. You guys are right about the Coggins test. It says "Coggins" right on the slip but I missed that.

I took 3 donkeys to the sale barn this past weekend and they averaged around $200 a head. On the payment stub it shows a $90 charge for vet services. That seems like a lot especially since there's no description of what vet services were performed and they were healthy animals when I dropped...

Came here looking for advise as files are horrible on my cows right now. Flies covering the entire neck/chuck area and under bellies. Was able to spray the docile cows with some permethrin from a hand pump sprayer and that seemed to knock them down, but the skiddish cows that wouldn't come near...