Recent content by dirtfarmer1000

Estrumate, to abort her if she is pregnant or gets pregnant.

Remember when you buy those cows prone to twins that they know how to count to 2, you have to buy the smart ones. :D

Read that they should get 100 Ig in the first 24 hours, 2 50 Ig bags will cost you 22 bucks. I usually give 1, bag. That's half what they need but better than none.

Never had any luck after the first day trying to get em to accept 2, Got to pen em in a small pen asap after they are born with both of em to get em to accept 2. Think after a couple days, you got an orphan or one for the sale barn. As long as he has had colostrum, I think you are good to...

You're not using the right ink, the ink on my tags outlasts the tag itself, most of the time the button breaks and the cow looses the tag, hence we backup with metal ketcham tags in the ear. Cows get brisket tags, but retain the ear tag, as long as it stays, to identify the mother cow.

Though about it years ago, but after years of pulling bulls, your cows will calve a week and a half early to a week and a half late. What's the point in wasting time and money syncing them unless you wish to AI them all at once and be done with it. if people ar doing it to shorten or tighten...

Start with the maxi tags, the bigger the better. They look dumb on calves, but their ears grow. Use up the whole tag for your numbers, bigger numbers are easier to read. I find the liquid ink in bottles lasts longer than the pens. You just have to be carful when squeezing your bottles so as...

You got to remember there are 2 sides to genetics. A good cattleman should be able to buy a bull by looking at him and use him on whatever they are buying them for with no issues. I have never in my life bought a bull for heifers and used them on cows first, how do u know its the bull throwing...

That bull looks like what the North American Industry was trying to steer towards in the 1980s, I prefer my bulls with a little less leg and a lot more depth and thickness through the middle.

If she still gets walks away, I use a half inch thick quick chain link to shorten the hobble chain, then she just shuffles. HAHA I have left em on for a month. Saves calf getting gunshy from getting kicked, and u time twice a day putting her in to suck. Hobbles are they only way to go. Make...

Before you make your uneducated, uninformed comments, why don't you look at the program. The program when it came out was not inexpensive. It cost me 400 bucks 15 years ago. Nor is it simple, the program you are talking about was developed by Alberta Agriculture and is used by nutritionists in...

With cowbytes the recommended levels are built into the program, you plug in your feed you wish to use and pounds you are feeding and it tells you if your animals are getting what they need. If you wish to use feed analysis data, you can plug it in place of the standardized feed analysis...

If I am not sure if they nurse, I make sure they get some sort of dry colostrum, preferably in the first 12 hours. At least they have some antibodies in their system and then you can tell a day or so down the road if they are nursing and you wont have a chronically sick calf on your hands...

I am not sure what you mean by densities, but all the feed analysis's can be changed based upon feed tests, or you can use the programs average on specific feeds. Everything is customizable to specific requirements.

We give a our heifers 22 days to get pregnant, if she cant get it done on the first go she gets sold the day after we preg check 3rd week of august when she is still worth a good buck as a grass animal. Any cows not in community pastures, which is anything 5 and under and old cows get 63 days...