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We raised registered Simmental and sell a few bull every year so we don’t band till weaning.

So we had these 2 calves that we wanted to band but didn’t do it at weaning since they already had all that stress to go through. They are now both 10 months old and the one I had no problem but the other one there was no way. We have a bander made to do large calves I’ve done them at 12 months...

We just number it with the cows number with A behind it and the birthdate above. So it’s easy to tell what calf belongs to which cow. We tried one year to do bulls in one ear and heifers in the other but could never remember which one was supposed to be in which so now we just try to put them...

I used it last year because of the garlic it has in it to help with flys, but I didn’t notice any difference. I think it is a good mineral it was just hard for us to get and not enough benefit for the hassle.

Thanks for your input. Believe it or not but there is concrete under that manure. I did scrape the barn tonight so it is better now. I think I will just keep an eye on him and see if it gets better or worse.

Have this 2 month old bull calf that I just noticed walking funny today. When he walks straight it’s hard to notice anything but if he turns his hindend is wobbly. I put him in the chute and palpated it and couldn’t feel anything and it didn’t seem hot. When he runs he just kinda hops with his...

I don’t have any experience with it but we bought our first bags of loose Vitaferm Heat last week and are just trying it out. We went with the loose since we have the feeders. We were using Purina wind and rain, we didn’t have any problems with it I just wanted to try the vitaferm heat since it...

It’s been a while but an update it on this calf. We had very bad luck this year. We ended up loosing another cow to pneumonia so I had 2 calves to bottle. I got them both started on grain and eating grass so about a week ago I started feeding them milk in just the evening than last night I...

Do you know what brand it is. Face flys are our biggest trouble. We have been using wind and rain with fly control for a few years. I don’t know if it helps much we never have seemed to have a horn fly problem. Just use it as a precaution I guess.

An update on the calf. Had the vet out yesterday morning since she was breathing harder than normal and had a fever. The vet said her lungs sounded rough so she gave her drexton kp. Her fever was almost gone by last night but still couldn’t get her to eat anything so I tubed her again. And left...

So an update on the calf. Dad helped me tonight and after trying to get her in the barn I ended up jumping off the atv and tackling her. Then tied her up and drove her to the barn. She seemed really weak and tired so I am hoping she doesn’t have pneumonia as well. I gave her LA 200 to help...

And for those of you who like pictures here is a picture of her with her mom at About 2 wks old.

Thanks for all your advise. So after your guy’s advise my plan was to put her in the barn with the nurse cow and calves and try to get her started. But she hardly ever goes in the barn so I tried chasing her in this morning but that was hopeless. So my plan now is to watch her closely to make...

I forgot to mention I had a very unfortunate year and I lost 2 cows earlier this year. One to prolapse and the other to hardware. I was bottle feeding both of those calf’s for about 2 wks until I got tired of it and bought a Jersey cows that took both of them very easily. But I’m not sure if she...

So to start off with I am a new guys on this forum but I have been reading posts for a few years just never felt the need to post. We are a small family seedstock producer raising registered simmental. Due to a very unfortunate situation I lost one of my best cows today to pneumonia. The...