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buying or raising heifers.... depends on your age and goals.... if you are a young person building a future then the first step is define goals and what you want to raise.... being a fad chaser has proven not to be a winning long term strategy.... figure out what you want and what your...

my vets have always been excellent at palpation and aging... it helps them if you can give them days since breeding... lets them calibrate their arm as a manner of speaking... my new vet does all of hers with a scope and at the right window can sex the calf..

I checked with the local welding supply.....One of the places my Select Sires guy refills his big tank...It has been several years now so I don't remember the price they gave me....but it was big bucks....the look on the guys face was priceless when I told him no thanks....I will just stay with...

Not trying to tell anyone how to live.... just relating a real event...

HAD A NEIGHBOR WHO HAD SIX PET COWS.... She handled every one of them from birth on.....she could walk up and pet every cow she had....they were all her babies... I told her several times that she needed to be more careful with new mothers.... She told me her girls would never hurt her...

Registered cattle should be held to a higher standard..... not a lower one...

Too many people fall in love with their cows.... look at the number of comments about my favorite cow or heifer in this thread..... efficient reproduction should be the number one item on a cows job description.

Did you get a grant from Ocassio - Cortez to work on non farting cattle?

Well while I agree that cows are not dumb beasts.... I have yet to see one that was a reincarnation of Einstein... they are more like democratic presidential candidates trying to get to a camera...... :cowboy:

if you have good mineral out.....forget the salt block....the mineral has salt in it and the block is not going to offer any additional benefit....cubes sound about right about 1.78 lbs per head per day for four head at 50 lbs per week as long as the bull is not getting it all.....lot of...

Democrats are branching out into the livestock business.....didn't think that ocassio -cortez gal was smart enough to actually be walking the walk.....I thought she was all talk.... no methane emissions and full of bovine rumination nutritional byproducts. Sorry I just could not resist.....

yes angus breeders have become professional at figuring ways to scam the system.....but they have been working on it for nearly thirty years... i recall when the target for a 205 day weight was something like 205 days.... and there were creeped and non creeped.. then had a breeder ask me how...

pardon me but I do not understand if you are disputing my statement or supporting my statement with the five lb average difference in birth weights... we fall calve and I once graphed my birth weights for several years and the october calves were significantly heavier than the september...

Protein much above the level needed by the cow is most certainly applied to the developing calf especially in the last trimester

Corn distillers grain is generally rich in protein. High protein DDG contains more than 40% DM of protein. In regular DDGS, some types are richer (30-35% DM) than others (25-30% DM). The production of DDGS includes a drying step that may damage amino acids, notably lysine. Corn distillers grain...

protein levels in the ration certainly have an effect on calf size.

do you have enough environment to support holstein cows....what level of milk will your environment support? answer that question and you will have your target for milk epd...also recall that the target moves....an plus 18 cow today would probably milk a good bit better than a plus 18 cow from...

I fought the weather when I was another mans cowboy....calving in Jan and Feb and sleeping in the calving barns under the heat light with the calves, because it was easier than driving the three miles back to bed for a couple of hours...lost calves in snow drifts that I didn't even know were...

The issue exist in cattle as well but is generally less critical than in horse's. Cattle more typically suffer more in the heat of summer...but calving problems, lack of milk, loss of tail, loss of toes are not uncommon

thickened placenta I think is also a sign of fescue toxicosis...there are other causes though...... are the cows on fescue?