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I was looking in the cooler at the feedstore this weekend and there was a box of Tetanus Antitoxin behind something else, but the Tet was covered up. Thought it was a cure for a rough night at Taco Bell.

You can get a dud from your home raised replacement heifers, and from an expensive purchased registered heifers.

A squeeze chute or head stantion in the barn is a must. Even the friendliest cow needs to have a way to give it some shots or stand still to get a calve to start nursing.

If you have a few cows it would be good to find a local cattle hauler that does it for a living and is insured. You'll likely only need to move cattle once or twice a year and even if you pay $100 each time you would take 20+ years to justify a $4-5k used trailer of your own. And you don't have...

Rent your cows out for Cow Cuddling.

We keep our bulls with the cows thru the winter. Easier to feed in one spot. The bulls will tend to hang out together.

We give every calf a shot of Multimin at birth. They have been strong and we see less illness. We are selenium deficient in our area. We used to give just Se, but figured if we're giving a shot might as well give one that has 4 minerals. According to the vet, the Mutlimin can help boost older...

You should use the same criterial for keeping heifers from any of your mothers, whether they are a 1st calf heifer or a mature cow. They should be born in at the beginning of your calving season and be above a set weight at weaning. Phenotype and temperament are also important. Being at the...

Did he go paralyzed in the back end? We had a big 5 year old bull start walking slow last fall and then started dragging his back feet as he walked. Got him to the barn so he didn't have to walks far for feed or water and he couldn't get up about 3 days later. Either a tumor or spinal injury.

Stupid bull, brought his horns to a gun fight.

30-40 years ago around here many of the small dairy farms would use a Hereford clean up bull. The majority of the beef herds were Hereford and a bull was easy to get. Alot of those Holstein/Herford black baldy calves were kept for beef cows or crossed to get 1/4 or 1/8 Holstein. Just saying...

You don't need Angus to get CAB premiums.

Santa brought us one last year!

Our cows tend to prefer the silage bales over dry grass hay, UNTIL it dries out, then they stick their nose up at it. Feed them silage only what they will clean up in a few hours and have dry grass hay available to them. We don't feed exclusively silage/baleage. The cows seem to self moderate by...

It would be good to get a stomach tube and learn how to use it. It's not hard once you've done it a few times. Sometimes you just need to get some milk in them the first few days so they get some energy and perk up. Plus you can use it for electrolytes to keep them from getting dehydrates.

Too much ear, she'll probably get docked at the salebarn.

The most dangerous bull we had was a bull my dad bought at the action years ago that was about 2 years old and had been shown at the county and state fair and was halter broke. If we wanted to work the cows we had to get a halter on him and tie to a tree or tractor. On the halter he was calm as...

Monkey Pox?

Introduce yourself to all the local beef cattle farmers in your area and let them know you would take an orphaned calf to bottle feed and raise. You might get lucky and someone will have an abandoned twin or one that wont nurse right on his mother that the farmer doesn't want to deal with. We...

You can run your bulls with the rest of the herd for most of the year, take out when the first cow calves until you're ready to breed. You just have to cull any cows that haven't calved within your window. However this only works if you don't have retained heifers with the rest of you cow herd.