Recent content by BettyLandercasper

I find if I have really hot hot wire someplace that my bulls encounter regularily, they don't mess with my out door fences, which don't seem to do much when its super cold and the cattle are super hairy. Inside my loafing shed I have 60 ft of single strand hotwire, round bales behind it...

It's going to be a long winter. Feels like I live "north of normal". :roll:

You could leave them out there and unroll a round bale on the snow. Put a new one out every few days. It doesn't make a mess and they eat almost all of it that way. If you have a little hill the bales unroll themselves.

I unrolled the best hay I could find in our stack. -23 this morning. Gave the 18 yr old cow some corn on the sly last nite. Weather is supposed to break on Wednesday. :clap:

Final Answer is great if you can get him but he's often sold out. We have several Regis calves, love the small birth weight, they grow well, and they have nice dispositions. :nod:

SE Minnesota. The sun refuses to shine!

Generally it is a good idea to ask for the tenderloin by itself. It is quite a bit of meat and is sometimes the part that leaves when folks who don't know what they are asking for have a critter butchered. This part of the animal is almost always tender and of good quality. This happened...

Wondering how other folks are doing with the constant rain, no sun, snow etc. in the north central part of the country. Hard to stay ahead of the mud this spring. :roll:

we have a new English Shepherd about 4 mos. It has plenty of instinct and power. Would like some tips on how to get the pup to chill around the cattle. I don't want it doing "herding" until I get a handle on him, the pup seems to have so much power that the cattle are freaking out, makes it a...

In SE Minnesota it's been too hot for too long. There are leaves coming off the trees, 150 yr old cottonwoods dropping leaves like it's September. It's not good to be a black cow this summer, especially not a fat black cow. Not so great to be an old white lady either!

Been hotter in SE Minnesota than I have ever seen. Just raking hay was hard work, which is kinda ridiculous. Some days the cattle are open mouth breathing. In the shade! Wondering how other folks are doing.

Penicillin works as an eye wash also, and the procaine in the penicillin is soothing. Penicillin in the eye and LA 200 sub q is a good Rx

Bring the cows up to where the calf is. Cut hole in fence.

Maybe your old cow didn't push hard enough fast enough and the calf is a little oxygen deprived. Some calves seem to come out of that if you give them a little shelter, let them get going. My oldest cow (a '96) had a tiny bull calf (71lbs). I've got her in a pen and will feed her a little...

Behind the ear and ahead of the shoulder is the pig injection site. Use a short sharp (new) needle with an aluminum hub ( plastic will break) and prepare for noise. Pigs do not like injections.