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Figured i would post a few photos of our balancer herd bull. Comments and questions welcome. Thanks, Nathan

We have a 110 x 48' dry stack shed. We store all our litter and run it through heat cycles (check temp and moisture and keep records along with analysis) we have 3 houses and it provides us plenty of fertalizer for our 50 acres of pasture and 30 acres of hay fields. We were selling litter to a...

After doing some research regarding using broiler litter as a feed source I'm not even sure if its legal. Dad got the idea from a cousin that used to run about 400 stockers back in the 90's. He has since retired from farming and lives a nice comfortable life at the coast. Guess I will contact...

We are in central NC. We were thinking of keeping all of our steers and buying enough to have a load of 40 or 50 in the fall and over wintering them to sell in the spring. We have room to feed 60 cows at the barn and we feed the herd in pasture during the winter. Dad was talking about feeding...

I've done some research and havent really found all the answers Im looking for, and was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. We run a small herd of about 30 cows, spring calf try to wean a 450 to 600 lb animal. For the past 8 years or so we've been selling our calves to a...

No squeze on our chute its old school 6 ft high wood sides with a headgate at the end. We have pannels that go inside when we work smaller cows and calves. Normaly we put a bar under them at the hips but never for just tagging. Guess we will start now. We drug her out of the mud and are going...

We have a first year heifer that we had to pull the calf about a month ago. Calf was lost and she had some issues getting back on her feet. We kept her up to watch her for a month to see if we wanted to keep her or not. Decided to keep her and went to stick a tag in her ear today and she went...