Recent content by FFAgal

We lost a cow 2 days ago that has a 6 week old calf that we are now trying to bottle feed. Problem is she wont take the bottle or suck. She doesn't beller like she's hungry either. She does eat grass pretty good. Will she survive on just grass or should be tube her? I will not sell her and...

Sorry really should have said gave birth to a still born 15 days ago.

We had a cow lose a calf 15 days ago and the bull bred her back TODAY? Is that possible? I really didn't think they came back in that fast. Any ideas?

A friend of mine has a nine year old daughter that has CHD. She sent me this poem yesterday as yesterday was Congenital Heart Defect day. I hope you would share it with Christopher's family and absolutely he as all children that suffer from CHD are in my prayers. Somewhere.someplace. today. A...

EARWIGS!!!! Don't get me started! I USED to have beautiful rose bushes until those nasty things showed up. I went out one afternoon and roses were just forming buds, went back out the next day and the entire bush was wiped clean! No buds or leaves-just twigs.

We have those nastly little critters too! This year we seemed to have been blessed with box elder bugs too. Can't hardly get though the door with bringing a dozen in with ya! :mad:

About 2 years ago we made the mistake of filling a USDA survey out. We ended up with so much junk mail, spam in our e-mail and way too many telemarketers!!! :x We new that the info from that survey was how these people got our names because we had just renamed the farm and everything was...

See I told you!

Maybe Agboy's number of posts got stuck like mine did. No matter how many times I posted I still show 14? (Now watch it'll make me a liar and show 15!)

We registered our farm last year. We were told that if you don't have an ID # by November 1st, we won't buy your beef. Our neighbor dairy farmer was told the same thing about his milk, no ID#, no milk check! I'm not completely against the ID system, just don't like having a gun put to my head...

aplusmnt-Thanks for the input! This was my daughter's first year showing and she did show two bottle babies that did quite well (1st & 2nd). They just did not have the age to them-they were just 11 & 12 months old. That's what the judge told her anyway. Although the heifer was up for grand...

We have two bottle babies that are about 4 months old now. Looking to show them at shows next year in June and August. One would be in the breed class the other market. They are being fed corn w/protien, hay and free range grass. They appear to have more of a "boney" look to them and we were...

Thanks for the info. Also thanks Jeanne for the links-there is quite a wealth of information on them. My daughter is new to showing this year and although we have raised beef for about 15 years now, her dad nor I have ever shown much less have a real clue on how to help her. She has done...

My daughter showed a red angus heifer at our local fair this last weekend and the judge said the heifer had some roaching(?) (at least that's what we thought he said) when she walked. He mentioned the same thing when some of the steers were out in the ring. Can anyone tell me what he...

Thank you so much!! We are really new to showing and I was looking for something like this. I always found bits and pieces of info. Thanks again!!