Recent content by Gayle Hilgeman

Get the calf in and give it some high protein feed and the best hay you have.

I was to a mineral meeting this spring.(He was not a saleman.) This guy was a nutristionist and he said cows do not know what they need. He said you have to make sure they get minerals for their immune system and reproduction system. In our area we have to make sure we have a high seleium and...

I had a total of 12 bulls out with 290 cows. 2 3year old angus and 4 2 year old angus bulls and the same amout of herefords and the same age as the angus. I got only 15 angus calves out of the cows that calved with with the 12 bulls. We had 250 of the cows calf in the month that there were 12...

Actually when I`ve sold the last 2 years I`ve they seperated the blacks from the reds and I got the same for both and the reds are from hereford and hereford shorthorn cows. Never kept a single black heifer, value my life.

If the Angus bulls are such good breeders,how come 2 years ago I Had 2 3yr old angus and hereford bulls and 4 2yr old hereford and angus bulls out with 290 cows and got a total of 30 angus calves and 15 of them came after I seperated them so there was only an angus bull with 30 cows? I`ve used...

If the Angus bulls are such good breeders,how come 2 years ago I Had 2 3yr old angus and hereford bulls and 4 2yr old hereford and angus bulls out with 290 cows and got a total of 30 angus calves and 15 of them came after I seperated them so there was only an angus bull with 30 cows?

When you buy cattle from the sales barn, aren`t you worried about bringing home disease? When we use to buy from the sales barn about 15 years ago, it`s taken till a couple of years ago to finally get controll of things like BVD, Johnes, etc. with vaccinating.

I`m going to say I had one of the burger king angus beeg steak burgers and the one I had their was absalutly no taste in the meat. The only taste was all the stuff they added to the bun.

What Frankie wrote about CAB is right on the No.2 because we need to buy more angus bulls because they seem to get hurt easier and become non breeders easier than other breeds. My experience and some people I know have the same problem.

I would sell her because it sound`s like she could maybe a Johnes cow. That`s how we got it started in our herd was from buying cows.

agree

I do.

We don`t use the rings for weaning, we use them for heifers that still suck on the cows after they were suppose to be weaned. Like the next fall after they are bred and we bring them home and put with the cows again and they start sucking again. When we wean we put all the calves in a pen and...

We use weaning rings. What they are is a bull ring with a crown on one side. Only thing we do is put the crown towards there nose instead of it facing up like the directions that way it pokes them and if they figure out how to tip it up it will poke the one it`s trying to suck on. I did it...

I do ours at a day old and I knife cut them because when I learned to do it the vet told me the feedlots perfered it this way because they know both are gone and they are less likely to rupture. He also said when you do it in the first couple of days there easier to find because the calf can`t...