Recent content by oakcreekfarms

Are you saying that you are willing to spend $35 on semen, but $60 is too much? I would assume that you would only use a bull AI if you thought he was going to move your herd forward. My point was that I can't believe you aren't willing to spend $300 or so dollars to attempt to accomplish...

I find it hard to imagine you call using a bull like Wonder as "throwing the dice" . He was awesome as a calf, yearling, two year old, and now mature bull. Look at the sons he has created. I was through Kevins cattle on Monday, I truly think they have never been better. A lot of calves are...

Yes I am 30 minutes north of Wichita ks. The calves were weaned Oct. 15, put on sorghum sudan/ wheat straw hay for a week. Then we introduced a creep textured feed. It is made up of pretty much equal parts soy hulls and corn, some cottonseed hulls, soy meal, and a mineral package. They have...

These are the two bulls that the yearlings are out of. We also bought a bull from Sandhill Farms that is a wonder x Progress T148, that bred the heifers last year WLB Bull 72y Bought from WLB herefords a couple years ago. OCF Yahoo Y08 (home raised) SHF USA x A gerber bred cow

I am guessing she is around 1100lbs or so. We are trying to produce 1250-1300lb cows in a 5 frame. She will probably be on the high end of the weight and a 6 frame cow based on her dam.

No, they are all bred to the same bulls we use on the cows. We never have had to many issues doing this. Pulled a couple calves in the last few years, but nothing terrible. These heifers are bred to the bull we bought from Sandhill Farms last year, he is a Wonder x Progress. The calves would...

Some of our coming yearlings And a 2 year old

I thought some of you would like this video. Made by a family 20 minutes from here that my wife knows. It's entertaining for sure. I don't think it was already added to the forum. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRXyqHMK4Tg

I am going to guess that there wasn't a runner up bidder.

The wonder calves that we have had and seen are the right type. Typically they are soggy, deep chested, and big hipped. We will be using more of him in the future, and kept a semen interest in an embryo calf that is a SHF Wonder x SHF Miss Keynote E39 (Marshall's dam). The flush has given us...

We will have some replacement females available this winter or next spring. They all go back to Sandhill Farm Breeding.

I can get very close to my cattle, the problem isn't distance from the animal but ability to sort to a chute. I was worried that darts would stay attached and take to long to recover. If you think one would work that might be the right way to go. The crossbow can take up to 30cc?

Thank you for the responses. Our reason for wanting one is to be able to treat pinkeye in rented pastures. Some of our pastures are 2 hrs from home and getting cattle in and out can be cumbersome.

Does anyone know the manufacturer of these. I am not looking for a dart gun, it is a gun that hooks up to an air tank and shoots medicated bb's (or bullets)

Rib eye is not a 7 frame bull, you can take a frame score off that. I bought some cows from kevin the same year and there was an issue with a mat in the bottom of the chute when they were being measured. He averages around a 6 frame calf (without looking on hereford.org). some of his calves...