Recent content by RisingCreekHerefords

My plan for the heifers would be to keep them back for production. I may end up putting them for sale, but if no one will pay the price then ill just keep them. I would be using him on heifers so my main concern is to get a live healthy calf on the ground while still playing with genetics a...

I have been playing with the idea of breeding some of my commercial girls to I-80, a Maine Anjou bull. I think he may give these potential calves more of a showy look and I may be able to market them to club calf breeders/showmen instead of just to commercial farmers. These girls that are to be...

I'm trying to find some used stall dividers. They are proving to be near IMPOSSIBLE to find! I would just buy new, but i'm not sure how much showing I will be doing in the future. I have tried borrowing from friends but they are all in the middle of show season too so they can't lend them...

I do vaccinate for lepto, but maybe she got it anyway? I will look into that for sure. Thanks Son of Butch!

I'm not asking if I should sell the cow, I'm asking for ideas as to what it could be.

I have a ten year old Hereford cow that has slipped her calf the past three years or so. She's an old show cow and breeds right back so I haven't sold her. She will generally carry until about the beginning of her second stage then slips. I was thinking maybe an ovarian cyst? Anyone have any...

I will go over the rules again, but as far as I know they don't have a limit. It will be the NAILE and maybe a smaller regional show here.

That could work. The only issue I see with that is if you are going to be marketing to purebred breeders. Purebred breeders tend to chase trends. They breed to the hottest bulls in the breed in hopes of selling the calves for good prices to other breeders. So if that is the case, what works for...

I thought about that dun. I plan on doing that or trying to go to another class from a different provider. Not saying the one I went to was bad at all, but maybe the difference in teachers may make a difference for me. But that will be when funding isn't so tight lol. The neighbors cows have a...

I have a horned Hereford heifer I will be showing this year. I am used to polled animals. My question is, would you weight her horns? Or let them go naturally? I personally like the natural look, but I don't want to be docked or frowned upon because I left them alone. They really aren't growing...

Can I ask what you are using him on and what you are going to use the calves for? If I was breeding purebreds for the show ring I would use much different genetics than if I was breeding to commercial females for calves to sell/ use as replacements. As earlier mentioned, the marbling is a bit...

Well the blood tests are back. Out of five heifers, two are bred. One I was confident I did correctly...and the other? The heifer that went down in the chute! The heifer that I was no way close to her cervix and quickly injected the semen when she laid down so I wouldn't totally waste the...

I wasn't sure how the estrotect patches would work if they aren't riding so I haven't tried them. Does anyone have any recommendations on a blood test company? Also, would you sync again or use the patches and wait?

Okay, so I bred 5 heifers on the 9th of January. On the 29th, I started watching for signs of heat just in case one happened to come in early. I noticed one heifer was in standing heat. The next morning, I AIed her again. As for the other four, I cannot tell if these heifers are in heat or not...