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I came back from a trip to another snow. I gave the bulls a treat of a fresh bale of oat hay on the ground, rather on the snow, to play with for a day. I'll put a ring over it tomorrow. My Huth bull Z072 is like a big Teddy bear. He loves to play with a bale. He is in a north facing pasture so...

Watching a few calves in a fresh patch grazing corn I opened yesterday, I noticed one full steer stopped for a last ear before heading to the waterer but then decided to use one of my frozen-in pigtail posts for a good scratch. He was fun to watch as he worked back and forth. Nothing like a...

I personally find some of the popup ads in the upper RH corner of this site offensive. Cattlemax ads I can understand. Bouncing cartoon boobs I can't understand and will not tolerate any longer. I sure wouldn't want to be sitting here with a child nearby. Please institute some discretion...

I've had several pm's asking for information on how/why etc I graze standing corn. I can't get into a long discussion now. But in the interest of not repeating the same answers to several people I will show some pics of how I opened more corn to my calves today. It is extremely cold right now...

I haven't posted here in a while but still "finishing" Hereford calves by grazing standing corn over the winter before harvest in late April and replanting corn in the same strip as I have for about the last 6 years. Very cold today, I believe the high was 3 or 4 degrees F. Low last night was...

I was putting out hay this morning and noticed one of the bull calves, 29 days old today, just looked obviously larger, more solid/filled out especially from the rear than the others. Despite the freezing rain coming down he was aggressively nursing his dam and seemed somewhat oblivious to the...

I don't know where to put this so will try here: IS anyone here familiar with pounding in fence posts? I have a lot to do and pounding would be a lot easier than the skid steer/auger/cement/dry/backfill standard method. Just hard to see how you can just pound in an 8" x 8 ft flat bottom...

Spring can't be too far away with new calves all around. It always amazes me how calves change after just 3 or 4 days on mama's milk. And how the newborn calves get licked off, stand up, turn around and get their first colostrum. Another heifer calving this afternoon. Dumb heifer this...

It's been snowing all day in SW WI. With the weather forecast for snow, and being a softee, yesterday I put a stalk bale on the ground behind the house for the steers and heifer calves. These are all about 11 months old. Plowed some snow and took a couple pictures of them as I came in. I am...

I am running short on good hay, as are many folks. However one positive thing about a lot of pasture in the area being torn up for corn is that you can purchase baled cornstalks fairly reasonably priced compared to good hay. I have been putting out one stalk bale for each hay bale. Using the...

Not having a hay shed, I have found wrapping dry 5x6 ft 1500 lb bales really saves a lot of hay in my climate. I took a couple pictures as I put two wrapped bales in feeders for a cow group this afternoon. This is not really the best wrapping can do because these bales sat out a month or more...

I should use my real camera but just had my phone and snapped a picture of some of my calves that were grazing the strip of standing corn near to the house. I am embarrassed by this drought corn anyway so just as well its a poor picture. Folks have said they like seeing pictures of my somewhat...

I see the medicare thread is locked and that is understandable. However my response was also deleted while other posts were not deleted. If you are going to have a no politics policy then lets have it apply equally to both sides. It seems like anti-Obama posts are let stand while anything...

I am still trying to get a handle on Knersie's comment on the importance of the pin to hook distance on a cow. I have been looking at my cows and heifers more closely trying to see some patterns. I would appreciate others comments on this pin hook distance thing. For reference I found a picture...

This afternoon I was giving the cows some grain for energy and some specially good hay with the subzero cold sticking around for a few days. We had a couple warm days so much of the snow is gone on the south facing slopes. I found a divider hotwire that needed repair which is why my calves...

I was giving the cows a grain treat ahead of some very cold (below zero F) weather when a few of the spring calves came down the hill to see what I was doing, or maybe beg some for themselves. These calves have been grazing corn for about two weeks now. After reading this article...

My young granddaughter has her 8th birthday coming up and I was going through some pictures to send her. I found this one from this October (2 days after weaning the calves off, hence the udder) of her favorite cow. I don't name my cattle, just numbers. However when my granddaughter saw...

I took a few pics this afternoon when I was out checking the hay feeders. Here are a couple of my favorite young raised commercial cows (one is a heifer). They were both sired by my Huth T021 bull. I really like their body type. The first one raised a great steer calf this year. I...

As it seems I am going to be short of hay come spring (as are a lot of folks), depending on what sort of winter we have, I am trying to use every last bit of grazing I can. It was in the 25 degree (F) range last night so the days are limited for anything much green to graze. Since we have had...

I have had a large number of wild turkeys wandering around between my house and grazing corn strip. Snapped a picture of a couple. Obviously mostly corn fed. I was thinking these might make a good thanksgiving dinner. My neighbor says they have a really good taste very different from...