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As Aaron said and I would add: A key concept of holistic management is goal setting to include things that normally aren't included in goal setting which if used will help avoid unintended consequences. Maximizing profit - when established as your only goal - can come at the expense of...

Talked to the vet. He said that I can try to keep it alive long enough to butcher it but it will never be right and we need to put a lot of antibiotics in it to keep the heifer going. Probably going to blow its knees out before it gets "better" and it will be cripple. Guess its time make the...

We have an older cow that clicks too. On ours it is her hooves though.

We had a set of twins from a heifer. The heifer (now cow) didn't do such a good job with the twins and we've been bottle feeding. They didn't get enough colostrum and got fevers within a couple of days of birth and we put them on Nuflor for a couple of weeks. One of the twins is doing good...

It's the wife here--where do I find b12 and a & d? I'm even more of a beginner than my husband but he is out and 2nd twin now has fever so I thought I would jump on here and read advice. Thanks!

They are the same sex. One is down with a fever. Vet thinks it is an infection from lack of colostrum being twins to a heifer (cow). Vet doesn't give much of a chance to the 1 twin with the infection but we're trying Nuflor.

Should I just start treating them as if they are bottle calves and be done with it?

OK so she is now a cow. The heifer and the calves have lost interest in each other. I can walk the calves down and they will nurse for a few minutes, but then they wonder off. Looks like they are turning more into bottle calves.

They are getting 6 pints a day split into 3 feedings. We are feeding 50/50 goats milk to replacer. The replacer is a milk based replacer.

We had 2 sets of twins this year. The first was to an old cow with a huge udder. The twins are doing great. The second set of twins that we had about a week ago were to a heifer and they were pretty small. So we've been supplemental feeding them 1/2 milk-replacer and 1/2 goats milk. They...

We are building our angus herd and use EPDs.

Is it OK for lactating cows?

My cows are looking pretty shabby. They are scratching on everything they can. We are just about to start calving any day and didn't know if I should try to treat them or wait until the calves are dropped. Any suggestions? I've tried to included a pic of one that is looking shabby but it...

We had some locally grown teff go through our local sale barn. When the teff was auctioned most of the local buyers looked at each other and didn't really move on it. It went cheap I think because it was different and no one knew what to make of it. It looked good though and I've heard it...

Thanks. So far over the past couple of years we've had only a few predators enjoy a free chicken dinner. Everything moves behind the cows in our rotational grazing pasture. Since the pastured egg chickens want to go in and roost at night, we use electrified poultry netting hooked to our...