Recent content by Ruark

In a case like this where the diagnosis is unknown, would it be acceptable to administer both?

We have a few little Zebu cows in addition to the regular black baldies. The Zebus have been losing hair, especially around the neck and withers. One of them has a spot on his withers that's completely bald. You can see in the pics below. And those light-colored areas are places where the hair...

It won't be that elaborate. Just corrugated galvanized roofing and walls. Just something to block the wind. The roof slope is just for rain runoff.

You're talking about cutting a "V" in the end of the pipe and having a big space to fill in with some 6010?

These would need to be T-connectors and 3-way corner connectors.

I need to build a cow shelter, just a 3-walled shelter to block the winter wind when it really blows. The ground has subsurface slab rock, so post holes aren't viable. Just something cheap that works; this isn't the Taj Mahal. It'll be about 10 X 20 feet. 8 feet high in the front, sloping...

There's a place down the road from us that has a big open pasture with about 75 angus in it, and NO shade whatsoever. There are 3 or 4 scraggly little mesquites in one corner, and in the summers I see those poor cows almost lying on top of each other trying to grab a little piece of shade. I...

I think it's KR bluestem. It grows very flat, right over the surface, mixed in with the Bermuda, then puts up a tall stalk about like a pencil lead, with a Bermuda-like seed head. Nothing kills it selectively, you have to use glyphosate in early spring, then let other grasses grow over it...

Can somebody tell me what kind of weed or "grassy weed" this is? I'm sure you've seen it. It grows "flat" with stems radiating out up to 2 feet or longer, then they curve upward into vertical stems sticking straight up 12-18 inches. Sometimes the entire plant can be almost 4 feet wide. About...

Thanks for all the answers. I ran down to the Deere place and got some corn head grease. Packed the gearbox with 4 tubes of it. All is good.

I'm not sure. It's about $1900 new.

I have a 6' Howse shredder a few years old. It's in near-new shape and cuts great. However, I must have gotten some wire around it or something, because the lower seal is blown. When I pour gear oil into it, it just runs right through. No way I can fix this thing by myself. The local tractor...

Since, like a lot of you folks, we live rural, we spend a sizable amount of time on the highway, even if it's just running into town for a loaf of bread. This means MAJOR buildup of dried bugs on the front of our cars (it dries pretty fast at 75mph). Even if we meticulously clean them all off...

We're planning to build a low-budget greenhouse in a clearing behind our house in central Texas, covering it with a good plastic greenhouse film. The main crop will be tomatoes. Our area is overrun with raccoons and, to some degree, possums and skunks as well as a few squirrels and rabbits. Do...

Yeah, slopes scare the crap out of me. I have a few small slopes I BH sometimes. What I do is carefully BACK up the slopes, then BH them going downhill in 1st gear. Going across a slope, leaned over sideways, gives me the heebie-jeebies. I just don't do it, ever. If I spray and kill the weeds...