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    Iseki TL2500F

    The Massy was just too big to get in the little pens, so we bought a Iseki. It's little, 4WD, and pretty handy. except when we need to work on it. The book is in Japanese. Anybody else work on one of these?
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    ShowShakes

    Okay, I'll bite. I don't see a clear explanation on the beginners' bd, nor in Websters. Sounds like you're using a hose or syringe to fill him with fluid? What's fire n ice or firewater? Boy, and I thought the horses were complicated.
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    Buyer Baskets

    Although we're new to showing our own steers, we've bought 10-15 animals at our local 4-H/FFA event each year. I spend all year bugging friends, associates, distant relatives to buy an animal. They end up not wanting to sit for 8 hours, so they mostly let me buy for them. I wait until a kid...
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    good steer gone bad

    Got two beautiful angus steers in October for 4-H. #1 was always gentle, we led him, groomed him, started squaring him up from the start. The daughter who will show him is 11 and little. The first week of January, he became Mean Joe Green. Not just a little head butt. I mean, like shooting...
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    Grubs and steers/ horses

    We raise horses, new to cattle. Have 2 4-H steers, yearlings now, wormed last in Dec. with a pour-on Ivomec. Groom 30 - 60 minutes a few times each week. Today one had grubs popping out. Never before today. No winter for us this year, so Spring is springing early, but we thought we had...
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