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any suggestions on a heat tolerant, maternal type hereford sire with sexed heifer semen available? horned or polled.

For those with experience with Fleckviehs, is there a difference in heat tolerance in the South African types versus the European types?

Anybody got any tricks to fishing a straw of semen out of the bottom of the nitrogen tank, or just kiss it goodbye?

Anybody used Macho Man U849? What are his calves like especially on angus cows?

vet said he thought it was result of fly irritation

These are beef calves and this is not udder development. This is just a noticable swelling. Does not seem to be bothering calves but it is noticable. And, like I said, maybe 4 calves out of a hundred, so not very many. Only noticed in 1 steer so far. Might try to get a picture.

We've had at least 3 or 4 calves (out of about 100) develop swollen udders or swollen teats. We've seen it on steers and heifers. Calves are 4 and 5 weights and are still on cows. Any ideas what may be causing this? Some type of bacterial infection?

We pulled cidrs and gave lut shots on saturday to 12 heifers, some of which had been cycling, some maybe not. None have stood yet and no stickers have been rubbed. It got cold here the last few nights, down in the teens. Has anybody had any experience with cold weather affecting synchronization?

I think this is what I was getting at about 3 pages back. Obviously each parent provides half the genes. So adding the total breed percentages of each parent and dividing by 2 gives you the most likely breed makeup of the offspring but you could not know the exact makeup. If a 50/50 baldy...

Not to add fuel to the fire, but I think Jovid's point is valid. Although I don't understand where his math is coming from, I think his point is that after the F1 generation, you dont know what percentage you have. When you cross two baldies, you are most likely to have to have a 50% angus...

No, I'm talking about the outer membrane around each testicle. After you cut the scrotum, and the testicles are visible, some people just pull them straight out but we have always sliced the outer membrane and then pull the testicle out. We dont cut the cord, all we do is basically touch the...

Yeah, what I am talking about is after you cut the end off and the nuts are in exposed. We have always sliced what I call the "membrane" that is around each nut and it pops on out and then you slowly pull the nut out so as not to break the cord off too short. Some people just pull the nuts...

For those who cut their calves, how many of you pull the nut straight out and how many of you cut the first layer of "membrane" from around the nut. I hope this makes sense. We have always sliced the "membrane" and then pulled the nut out but I've seen it done by just pulling the nut straight...

thanks for the input but i went ahead and slapped a In Focus in her, the higher CED may help me sleep better in nine months