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thanks for the reply, not exactly sure what the cause was but i surmise either acorns (?) or acidous from Corn (half bucket for seven head seemed doubtful). I seen no improvement so he went to a better place friday, there was some bruises on his hind quarter though. so really not sure what...

checked pasture tonight and had yearling steer laying down flat. calf acted normal yesterday and the stool and breathing are normal. calf is sitting upright now and hope to try again at getting it up. has anyone else seen this before?

"Our old German Sheppard farm dog died this last Fall of old age. We had her since she was a puppy and was a super farm dog. We are hoping to get another puppy this summer. I like German shepherds, but it was tough to watch the last few years as like many, her hips started to bother. She was a...

just finished thursday and was able to chase together 43 bales of stalks but hoping to keep them out on wheat stubble/clover/weed field till the snow gets too deep

Not sure if this works in large pasture setting but where I work we have permit to shoot them (turkey buzzards) and then hang dead buzzard upside down on post. this seems to work great to keep them off compost bin until legs rot off and they return. just a thought, not sure if same success with...

I lived in Renville county for a while and from what i seen then (late 90's) there was rarely any beans drilled, likely because of equipment costs or just because of the terrible weather there lol. But here in Ohio rarely are they rowed. there is benefits to both, with drilled beans you have...

A couple people listed vinegar and Knersie also listed Epsom Salt, what are they used for?

In my opinion Charolais Bull on 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9 and black polled bull 5/10 also either char or black bull on 11/12. My reasoning would be to bring uniformity to the calf crop starting with the hide :2cents:

right now i do Charolais X Hereford X "Red" Charolais but for a three way i would have to say Hereford X Red Angus or depending preference a black bull...BA, GV, SM, etc then X Charolais.

yes...ground, but I think some added supplement would be needed. hopefully some one smarter than me on nutrition can help.

Not sure about the first two bulls you listed but I have used "progression". only had two calves from him last fall so not a good sample. the calves came easy and look like they will be small framed with plenty of pigmentation. the faults i see are only they have what i would describe as "bug...

Cowtex, I just purchased some Victor 719 semen a week ago. after searching I felt he had the most to offer as far as improvement of my herd, but I said that before and was mistaken. unfortunately when purchasing semen I feel you don't always get info on feet(?) or udder quality (daughters/...

I use a hereford for 1st and 2nd calf charolais cows. the resulting F1's make good cows just havnt decided on a good breed of bull to breed them to. Brimmer it will be interesting to see the calves from braunviehXcharolais...is it a black braunvieh?

had cow "founder" on cornstalks about two weeks ago, what can I expect for recovery? so far the improvement has been slow.

nice looking Char calves, like that TTW bull calf best. I need to get some Charolais semen soon and jw have you used 3 trees wind very much? and pleased with most?