Recent content by Beef Man

In this area sweet clover, at times ,grows every where. We have hayed it and silaged it and it is damn good feed BUT beware of it if it gets moldy!!! When I was a kid we lost 27 yearling steers one night from sweet clover bloat[called that because they swell up and bleed to death under the...

She'll dry up,they always do. Have heard it said if the seal on the tit was'nt opened it's even better.

Here in Mt. May & June there is a branding every day, that it don't rain. 99% 0f all calves born are hot iron branded, vaccinated ,steers cut and whatever the owner wants done for the year. It is quite often a community event and one of the spring social's. Hot iron brand's are the possitive...

We have a question. We are calveing quite a lot of baldy and straight black heifers and are puzzeling about the pelvic size in a number of tthe straight blacks. They are supposed to be super light birthweight, themselves. We A.I. D them along with the baldy's andour own straight herefords and...

We have used nothing but Rotella for ever and have 3 tractors with 15000 hrs,16900 hrs and a older 4240 withover 19000 hrs one old 1974 cat hour meter has'nt worked for awhile . Have never touched anything in the engine's. I can't even think about changeing anything on this operation as far as...

The original Becktons were dedicated true cattle breeders and am reasonably sure that their abilities and business is probably still carried on by this generation. I would not worry about either the performance and or the genetics as far as Beckton's are involved.

The old commercial cowmen here always refered to the polled breed as" no balls, no butts, no bags"! It was very near the truth and like so many things is hard to live down. Only knew of 1 large herd of polled cattle that run strictly as range cattle. That was another reason that oldtimer's...

These calculator's are just a good rule of thumb. We sell alot of beef on the rail and about every so many someone calls and wonders why they did'nt get more cube steak or why there wasnt more of something. Any time there is some thing put in writeing ther will be someone finding out a...

We expect 50% that last past 3. We cull all the time on many things and sometimes a few go elsewhere after 4-5 calves. Thinking that we can replace a average cow with a superior heifer,sometimes works, always hopeing that the newest herd sire is a bit better than one of the older ones. Maybe...

We bought 85z and sure considered 49z but a question on a mar in his pedigree stopped that. Also took 101z along. Will let you all know in 18-20 months if they were worth useing or not. Am pretty sure they both should be cow producers.

We surely beleive in seperateing those calved out from them that are waiting to calf,especially heifers as they are'nt real great colostrom producers. On older cow's we are'nt as concerned as real range cows will not usually allow much fooling around. I was told that a lot of exotics were not...

Great Humor!! When we accidently got a baldy calf years ago we called them black herefords and laughed about it. We were so far ahead of the times. About 1950 my dad and uncle who were traveling cattle and horse traders gave I and my sister's a couple of black baldie steer calves said they didnt...

Are you relly sure that she is a first calf heifer?? I noticed her tail and just looking at the picture would call her and her general condition a mature cow. Mouth her and see as it is very interesting to me!! Thank you !

SPH,you are right, the hereford breed has a chance to recapture a fair amount of market share and we better pay strict attention this time or forever be a hobby breed. I as a old horrned breedercould get into this discussion and feel like I am winning a large share of this debate, but to each...

I still subscribe to the old theory that a cow should easily have a calf that is 8% of her weight. 1200 lb cow=96lb calf, 1000lb cow=80 lb calf. One other thing I also beleive that birthweight is about 70% controlled by the cow. To small of a calf here is about as much of a problem as a big...