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Here’s a few pics of my replacement pen. I have my own heifers along with the group I am planning on selling as breds in fall. I really don’t know where prices are going to go in fall but I’m thinking I will need close to $3500 to feel like it was worth it. I bought most from a ranch that I...

Is she gonna have twins? Or one whopper of a calf.

Unfortunately with the long evenings a person has too much time to look at things to spend my hard earned savings on. Showed the wife a horse on Facebook auction that has a lameness issue that comes and goes. Otherwise a very well trained horse. She was all enthused and I made a deal that if it...

Another year come and gone and we are living the dream. A lot to be thankful for. Best of wishes for the new year, thanks for all the advice and support on this board been a big help!

I am just wondering what you all are using? What’s gives the best catch rate and is cost effective for you? Right now we are AI ing over a 12 day span. Heat detect and ai 5 days then give PG on day 5 and heat detect and AI and give GnRh same time over the next 7 days. After 12 days we are...

So we just got ourselves moved a few months ago and have gotten the new handling system set up. Quite happy with most of it. But I am having problems with cattle stopping just before the head gate. Then we use the ratchet bar or a tail twist for the more difficult ones. End of the day you feel...

Years ago while expanding the herd we bought at local stockyards bred cow sale and have had a terrible time with sick calves scours coccidiosis etc. ever since. I believe we finally got a handle on it but it has me hesitating to buy cows that way again. Had me wondering how paranoid everyone...

I’m here to expose my lack of education on the matter. But anyways I had a question about some bulls that combine calving ease and high growth. Im assuming that the calving ease mostly comes from early gestation. What happens if u breed her to a cow that typically has larger calves and later...

Ive been looking through the different catalogs and narrowing it down which bulls to purchase straws on and I’m curious what bulls are on your shopping list. My considerations. - ellingson three rivers - growth fund - architect - hart outlier - poss tenderloin - iron horse...

Wondering if someone could explain which epds to watch for if a guy is wanting to select for feed efficiency. And if it makes a difference I’d be more interested in cattle that do well in a forage based diet.

I’ve been wondering if any of you have an app you like and would recommend for coming up with different feed blends. This drought has me looking at all options. Going for a straw based diet but need to find the most cost effective way to supplement and get protein up.

So we’re about a month till putting bulls out. And one of the big bulls got injured in a fight. He may recover but it has me thinking about shuffling bulls around and ai some heifers. I’ve done cows but never a heifer. What would some of differences between cows and heifers. Is the cervix a lot...

Being that Bull sale season is on or near the end.. what is your max price for buying a bull to use in a Commercial Herd? Some sales you see they go up to 10 grand or higher and they go to a non purebred ranch. Some of us wonder how can that pay for himself. I think my max would be 5-6000...

Something I’ve been interested. There’s some GPS tags coming out have a little solar panel on it and supposed to last 10 years. Updates location of your animals every 10 min I think. Would be real handy for having cattle in big pastures, rough country or where u have cattle rustlers. Not sure on...

Just been looking for good Angus bulls that have enough size. I’ve tried resource and stunner so far and the resource calves are really nice and stout but there frame size is bit small for my liking.

Does anyone have any suggestions for the best black angus bull for Herefords. My goal is to keep baldy replacements. On another thread Charlo was mentioned. Any thoughts or experiences are welcome.

I was just going through genex bulls and came across Barricade? Really like his epds. Ww: 78 YW: 137 Foot scores in top 1% HPG 17.7 Doc 22. Milk 22 Accuracies on these epds isn’t very good yet because he’s a young bull but right now they look good. Does anyone know anything else about this bull...

We just started using heat detection pads in our Aiing as an aid in watching for natural heats. Problem we had was they didn’t stick very well to the hide last year. Probably about a 1/3 of them we’re still hanging on by the end of the 21 days. I’m wondering if anyone has any tricks to making...

Just looking for suggestions on which Hereford bull to use when making Baldys. I want easy keeping, thick growthy productive cattle. I’ve used victor719t and I was quite disappointed because of calving troubles and the calves just don’t look very impressive yet. Thought he was a good bet...