Recent content by NeilsenFarm

Thank you! Our vet works his own cattle and helped us work out what he thinks will work well. We're small, only 6 head to start, and they're pretty calm and well behaved, so I think we will manage them ok. At least I hope so. We did discuss putting multiple smaller slide gates along the...

Thank you so much for the thoughtful response! We have noticed he's stayed standing off on his own, and they're not jumping on each other anymore. He's also been less keen to investigate anyone coming around the heifers (before he was always right there, pushing in). We do have a small trailer...

Thanks for this! That's what I was wondering but my vet seemed surprised to hear that I never saw this behavior. I have noticed that even the ladies have stopped mounting him, so I'm hoping maybe they're all bred. They're definitely fatter, but they're well feed. We've decided to hold off...

Thanks! Loving every moment, even the hard ones!

I love the belteds (ours are angus/belted mix) but my husband wants "bigger steaks" 🤣. So far my favorite has been my little Hereford/Angus mix, and we might lean towards more hereford in the future

Pictures of our bull and the heifers

Ideally, but we are all new to farming and have made a few mistakes. We didn't know we needed a head gate or chute, so that's in the works, so my vet can't do testing. We're up against him being too large soon for our processor to accept, so we feel we're needing to make a decision in shorter...

We have an excellent looking simmental bull, a little over a year old. He's been in the pasture with 4 heifers since March. We've seen the ladies mount him but never seen him mount them, and my vet pointed out today that his testicle are slightly cleft. He said that might make him have...

I have a 3 month old weaning bottle calf, angus/simmi. This last week I've noticed clear discharge coming from one eye, no redness or swelling of the conjunctiva or surrounding tissue until about an hour ago. Discharge increased and is staining her face and she has some swelling. What would...

You have won the internet today 🤣

Mine is a bottle calf. We used two other antibiotics first for persistent cough and wheezing and trashy sounding lungs, got only temporary improvement and then bad again. He didn't ever go off feed and stayed active, just kept coughing. Vet chose to fondant go with nuflor. Within a week...

Thank you so much! I've been kicking myself for not researching first.

Has anyone use Nuflor on a calf and still bred them? My vet prescribed it for my bull calf and just read that it affects whether they can breed. I wasn't intending to make him a steer, he's beautiful.