Recent content by darcelina4

I've sold some cattle lately. I have a variety of breeds. Our main bull is a registered white beef shorthorn. Our cows are shorthorn, red angus, jersey and jersey crosses, other dairy/beef crosses, some charolais crosses, some other random cattle. I also raised a registered Charolais bull. Our...

I sold a white calf, 305 pound steer, 2 weeks ago at the salebarn and he brought the most per pound that I saw sold that day. He was a shorthorn but I think folks thought he was a charolais. most black calves his size that looked good brought 2.20-2.60 and brought 2.77. That might be low where...

I bought a couple day old calf a few years ago that had broken his leg between the hock and stifle. I looked up how to fix it and found a Thomas Schroeder splint. I went to lowes and bought very thin threaded metal rods and the connecter bolts. I put the calf in the truck bed so I could keep...

My calves hated calf manna. They were slow to eat calf starter. So I found they are sweetfeed best. I would start them with a 16 percent sweet feed and go up on the ration as they eat more. Maybe add the cottonseed mixture after a month or a couple of months

so lets clarify a bit here. That calf looks like he doesn't feel well so the nuflor should help. I would give him banamine too to help him feel better. As for underbites, Jerseys almost always look like that have an underbite at birth. That is their normal. As for fixing an underbite in a foal...

Beef calves nurse 10 months so a dairy calf can easily be fed milk that long of you can afford it but it is to expensive for me. Once they have a calf, I would say you are way past bottle feeding but I can see giving you pet cow a bottle as a treat or to calm them down for a procedure, or to...

This is from the university of pennsylvania, jersey growth chart. This is average.

I would say she is closer to 9 to 10 months. Looks in good condition. You are a very long time away from deciding how many calves she CAN raise. First off, hope she is breedable as you got her from an auction and she may be a free martin. Once she calves, you need to see how much she is able to...

In your location I would go with branch's or beefmaster. You need some ear to help dissipate heat. There are docile cattle in every breed and bat shytt crazy cattle in every breed. There are nice cattle and bad cattle at the salebarn. The sale barn advantage is that your eyes are wide open and...

Murray is Richard possibly sired by him too Cuso that sweet bull you got from me that disappeared? Seems like his birthday could fit. He looks like Cuso. Im sure someone stole him. He was so dog gentle anyone could have lead him away.

In my lifetime I have not seen our country behave so ugly as it has in the past 12months. I lived through Vietnam and people did not treat each other with such disrespect and hate. Trump divided people like no other. He made people think it was ok to call people names and treat them badly...

Do I could definitely make money in that situation but I have lots of ag experience. I would divide the place to rotational grazing and get help with deciding what different for ages to grow. South Carolina you can grow something all year long in pastures if you manage it well. You will need to...

I hear so many people complain about these overfed developed bulls melting in the pasture but yet if you try to sell a young bull that has not been stuffed with grain people don't want to pay anything for it. I had a reg. Red Angus low birth weight coming 2 year old bull for sale. We were going...

I had a heifer Thursday standing there doing nothing at 5:30. I went to grocery shop and got back at 7:30 to find a dry dead calf that I am sure was stillborn. It looked like she pushed it out, cleaned it, ate the placenta, and went to eating hay. The calf was 3 weeks early. Only weighed 25...