Recent content by loyal.uvf

The calf is healthy and growing fine but with this last episode is not helping. It's not mastitis yet but will be from my experience growing up dairy and switching to beef 5 years ago. Her first calf snapped its own neck, so she had a free ride. All she cares about is eating. Hence why I just...

I have an angus cow that won't let her two month old calf nurse after being let out to pasture. When the calf was born she had to be confined to let it nurse as she would kick at it. A week later we turned them in with the rest of the herd and again woudn't nurse, so back to the pen, everything...

John SD, thank you. Insurance was great except for the mf 274(cause of the fire) which had none since the move from dairy to beef. The origins of the fire will never be known, as it burned to the ground, thank god the fuel tanks never went up or the winds shifted! Thats the one good thing that...

-25°f or lower since December, have had enough. Pretty sure the block heater on the old mf 274 loader had enough and burnt down our 80 x 30 shed filled with tools, tractors, hay, horses and silage/manure equipment. Today a neighbors did the same. Bring on spring.

Change it.. Christmas Eve our 80x30 shed with 3 tractors, spreader, snowblower etc burned down. Don`t know what caused it. Keep everything in check..