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Yes, Bella is a purebred lab. She is registered as a chocolate lab. The AKC recognizes three colors of labs - black, yellow and chocolate. Yellows can range from almost white to yellow to red. Chocolates can be light, dark or silver factored. We don't plan on breeding them until they are...

My two Holsteins are going to the table as well. We give them hay but they get 2.5 - 3% of the body weight a day in calf feed. We get it for $7.50/50#. If you can't catch them how do you vaccinate them? Worm them?

Where are you located in Mississippi? I live in central Mississippi. Mississippi Serum can give you the names of some good large animal vets that you could call in central Mississippi. They are most helpful on non-emergency treatment as well. The number is (601) 372-8434.

We got two kittens last year. They were about 6 weeks old. We kept them in our shop for several weeks. We installed a pet door in the shop door. Once they were big enough to go outside alone we lifted the flap of the pet door and taped it up for a week or so. We then would put the flap down...

The suggestion of getting a crate trained dog is a good one. My husband and I both work. We have two labs that are house dogs. They are both crate trained. One lab we raised from a puppy. We were successful in house training him even though we worked. He is 1 yr. 3 mos. now. The younger...

If these are bottle calves, I paid $25 for a 5 day old calf and $40 for a 2 month old calf. They are Holsteins and are now 3 mos. and 5 mos. and can put away some groceries!!! They go through a bag of good calf starter every 3 days. They get 3% of their body weight a day - split into two...

Beefy - good suggestion - thanks! Iowafarmer - We were lucky with Ben and the chewing...only got one good shoe of mine. Nothing else but we did get him at 7 weeks and really worked with him since he is a house dog. I hope we are that lucky with Bela but the jury is still out. We are getting...

I have never been much of a lab person either....I like golden retrievers or small yappers, as my husband would say! He wanted a lab. The jury is still out on Bela, the new dog. She is 10 mos old but it is like she is 6 wks old, except for the house breaking. She just has not been around...

Thanks. I believe PBS is one of the companies I get a catalog from now.

Thanks TN!

Hey folks....need some more of that great advice you all have been giving me. My steers are now 5 mos. and 3 mos. The guy that showed me how to cut them gave them a tetanus shot and wormer at that time ( 2.5 months old and 2 weeks old). They have had nothing since. We have never had cattle...

This is Benjamin Benelli. We call him Ben. He is a yellow lab that is almost 1 1/2. He currently weighs 90 lbs. He has his own bedroom at our house, loves to get in the lake to swim and play with the calves every evening. Oh, and he loves to harass the cats.....except the one that attacks...

You can get the tape worm pills at the co-op. You give the dog or cat so many based on the weight of the animal. You can also get Nemex 2 at the co-op that gets the roundworms and hookworms. If you have cats, the dogs will find the poop, eat it, and get worms. Cats eat mice, moles...

I hope that I can continue with the current thought process. It only makes sense. They are going to be butchered by someone. What other purpose would they serve....they are steers! I too am a life long hunter. We kill enough does (there are too many of them on our hunting land) to have...

I never fed my two bottle calves more than 2 - 2qt bottles a day! They got one around 6 am and the other at 6 pm. Actually the older calf was on the bucket when we got him. He still was fed 2 qts in the am and 2 in the pm. That is what the directions on the bag indicated. As for the calf...