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My first question is how much grass have you got? If the grass is good feed them 1/2 % of there body weight something like a 14% stocker ration is good or a corn glutin soy hull 50/50 every day till spring time and unload them then. But since you are feeding hay I'd say grass is not on the good...

I have the 2500# model that works very well it is on the back of a 3/4 ton dodge with a homemade flat bed on it. I've used the trip feeder for about 2 years and the only problem that I have had was the trip counter locked up not long after getting it and T&S mailed me a new one free of charge...

I background 800-1000 head of cattle yearly and have found that adding a pinkeye vac. to your list of shots given to incoming cattle is money well spent. On incoming cattle I'll wait till Fri. or Sat. to work the calves that seems to give the buyers plenty of time to get them all to the farm...

This is a pretty useful website for evaluating cost effectiveness of a precon/backgrounding program right now I don't have excell on this computer so I can't run the spreedsheet but I use this alot at the house and it works well. http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/software/Extsoft/index.htm

So far I've been pretty lucky there is a mill in Eden NC where we get a 50/50 CGM and Soy hulls w/Bovitech. As long as I give them a week notice they will come through I get around 17 tons twice a month and except for around the holidays I have had no problems getting my feed.

From most feed supply stores you can buy protien lick stations if I rember right from a couple of years ago the station was around $250 and the protein was $200 per fill the station was just a large tubb with 4 wheels in it for the licking with 35 head on it you will need to fill it about once a...

We have always refrained from pulling calves with just a snotty nose, if that is the only sign that the calf has an issue if the calf is off feed and generally slow I will ussally pull him. My vet. told me some years ago to think of them as kids how many kids do you see on a playground with a...

My topic is compensatory gain and I think I have possibbly gotten a good grasp on it so here goes. I've bought cattle for years that were good solid cattle clean 4 weight M&L 1 and 2 for the average market price they were going for at the time put a couple hundered pounds on them and turned...

If this country thinks it has a problem being dependent on oil from other countries imagin being dependent on food from other countries. Scary senerio aint it.

http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/livest ... 07s02.html...

I'm not familiar with Alabama Cattlemen's Assoc. but here in Virginia our cattlemen's assoc. offers a quilty assurance program. The way it works is lets say it takes 8 farmers to produce a trailer load of calves your calves are grouped with very similar calves to make the group. The only thing...

This is very true I had a neighbor thought he was getting a deal on cheap corn that had not amounted to very much for silage and lost some cows to the high nitrate level.

How important is this to a feedyard operator? Had you rather have a feeder that is eating 2% of his body weight a day plus free choice hay and pasture or one that is grazing and being fed 2lbs. of grain? Compensatory gain to a stocker operator is important, but to a feedyard operator is a hot...

I had an order buyer tell me one time "if you have two calves in a sale ring one is always better than the other". I thought about this and he is right there is always room for improvement there is always 5% more the farmer can give his calf or the calf to his buyer. I think that is why a good...

I'm thinking about attending in Feb. did anybody go last year and what did you think? http://www.midsouthstocker.org/

lots of good ideas: http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/abeng/beefplans.htm

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am looking for something to haul feed to the pasture. Right now I haul about 800 lbs. a day in 5 gal. buckets I like feeding the calves in bunks because it makes them calm when it comes time to load them up or get...

Stocker Steve, the way we rotate pasture is graze a padock hard for 4 to 6 days like 1/4 to 1/2 acre per head you will be able to tell that better as you watch your grass. With running Steers and Heifers together we have never had a problem with it always came out with the same ADG as groups...

I agree with goats. If all you are looking for is a animal to clean your land up for you I tink you will find goats are cheaper and less trouble.