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<blockquote data-quote="rocfarm" data-source="post: 1778906" data-attributes="member: 42715"><p>A</p><p></p><p>Thought about going organic, but not trying it yet. I know I need to cut back on feed for efficiency, but kept it high through this winter to try to make sure they could recover from the poorer circumstances they had just come off of because of the drought. Next winter I'll cut back a little.</p><p></p><p>So far proper nutrition, calm handling, frequent paddock rotations, and established calving season is my health program. Working on the other aspects. However, every head I've put out there so far has added one or two bcs points to their score within about half a year or maintained their bcs if they were nursing, and the one calf I have from the thin mother is fat as a tick and prancing daily, so not overly concerned at this point.</p><p></p><p>The bad drought and 105 degree heat seems to have dried out and baked a lot of parasites in Texas over the past year, so not sure central Texas parasite issues are the same as folks in states with rain. Never seen a tick on a cow or pig or raccoon or deer, etc. on my place, for example. Haven't heard of worms being a problem in understocked Texas places that rotate cattle often, either. And the Google scholar stuff I have seen says that letting your animals develop some resistance to parasites is actually advisable.</p><p></p><p>But will definitely take action if his condition turns out to not be the result of that nasty drought we just experienced.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rocfarm, post: 1778906, member: 42715"] A Thought about going organic, but not trying it yet. I know I need to cut back on feed for efficiency, but kept it high through this winter to try to make sure they could recover from the poorer circumstances they had just come off of because of the drought. Next winter I’ll cut back a little. So far proper nutrition, calm handling, frequent paddock rotations, and established calving season is my health program. Working on the other aspects. However, every head I’ve put out there so far has added one or two bcs points to their score within about half a year or maintained their bcs if they were nursing, and the one calf I have from the thin mother is fat as a tick and prancing daily, so not overly concerned at this point. The bad drought and 105 degree heat seems to have dried out and baked a lot of parasites in Texas over the past year, so not sure central Texas parasite issues are the same as folks in states with rain. Never seen a tick on a cow or pig or raccoon or deer, etc. on my place, for example. Haven’t heard of worms being a problem in understocked Texas places that rotate cattle often, either. And the Google scholar stuff I have seen says that letting your animals develop some resistance to parasites is actually advisable. But will definitely take action if his condition turns out to not be the result of that nasty drought we just experienced. [/QUOTE]
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