Recent content by jbradley

I was wondering if you guys on here think holsteins are worth feeding out for feeder cattle? I got and oportunity to buy started holstein bull calves from a local dairy farm for 250 dollars a piece they are all about 200 pounds and off milk started onto grain. I was planning on taking the...

i know you didnt want Angus but i would say Angus or herford im in michigan and here we gotta have everything fenced and the angus and herford cows we got are calm and dont have and problems with them usually. It think as long as you are around them all the time and dont yell and get pissed at...

i dont have a mixer wagon or any way mix the silage or weigh it exactly, im feeding the silage in a feed wagon and just dumping the silage into it every day and giving them two round bales of hay into a feed wagon as well, i figure the hay bales weigh about 500 lbs a peice and im givng the cows...

i got a question i live in northern michigan and we have about 41 beef cows and we usually just feed them good grass hay during the winter, but after last year with being short of hay we decided to put up corn silage for the cows and feed them that along with the hay this year through the...

ok thanks i will reserch that and not a problem im just starting out in the cattle business and this is all very helpful thanks!!

ok thanks, im not real concerned about brd in the unborn calfs i was just wondering if the cows were vaccinated does that mean the unborn calf inside her will be vaccinated too, the whole reason im asking this is because one guy told me once that if your cows are vaccinated you dont have to...

i was wondering if anyone has used Pulmor Guard PHM-1 vaccine for beef cattle and if so how it worked for you also i just recently bought some angus cows and they were vaccinated last fall by the prevous owner but he wasnt sure what the vet mixed up so i was wondering what a good mix of vaccines...

alright thanks just got done feeding him not to long ago and noticed he is getting a running nose too, so think im gonna give him another shot thanks for the advice

alright even after the one shot of draxin he got earlier

I got a deacon calf thats almost five weeks old and about 90 to 100 pounds he has been coughing for the last four or five days he is mainly on just milk and has free choice grain starter and hay that he eats pretty good i checked his temp three days ago and its was 105 so i gave him a good dose...

alright thanks and yeah i was either considering renting that barn or buying into the cow calf part and the more i think about it, i might safe my money and buy some cows instead, do you think that would be a better investment and thanks again for all the advice

Thanks for all the post currently we put up all our own hay and corn silage already and bale our own wheat straw for bedding and grow our own oats and corn for feed so i wont have to buy that which would help out but it still might be tough to make a profit with the price of cattle today but...

yeah hay isnt cheap here either we are gonna have just enough for what we got now but i picked up some more hay ground for next year and was thinking about doing this next winter depending on the hay crop next year

Sorry i live in northern michigan we have ran cattle ever since the farm was started we run a cow calf operation right now i have 8 holistein feeders and 8 holistein bull calf still on milk to sell this coming fall but want to get more cattle but like i said our barn is full with about 70 head...

I have a question i am currently farming with my uncle and have 16 head of my own i would like to get more but dont have the space our barn is always full every winter so was considering renting a barn off a neighbor to run about 50 head of colored feeders i would like to buy them in the fall...