Recent content by SammieBrewer2010

Thank you Redgully

To be honest I have no clue

She is eating hay and half scoop 12% sweet feed 2x daily...and I used the safeguard pellets to worm her

It’s a lot of gas... and her dung is a pat it’s a bit wet but it stacks. She is eating and drinking water, she’s still a bit Skittish but I think that’s from stress.

My husband bought a heavy breed cow from the sale. Her BCS is like a 2 she is very malnurtrished and she is PASSING a lot of gas and I can’t find anything on the internet about cows passing gas. Does anyone have any knowledge on this... she doesn’t look bloated and as I said she is PASSING a the...

Anyone have experience with this cross and how did it go? Are the calves worth buying and raising? Thx

i just bought a few girls from a local farm and they look poor, their body score is probably about a high 2 and they have sunken in rumens. they are BIG frame girls just wondering if anyone had an idea on getting them back in shape, what to feed and how often to get their body scores up and...

Ebenezer...thanks for the advise. I was trying the garden thing for this fall only that way it will give our pasture time to pick up all the nutrients we put down and get the newly planted grass and legumes time to grow and thicken up for the up coming years.

We have done a soil test and are in the process of making the improvements recommended, I was just tying to think out side the box so I know our cattle would have enough forage to keep their body scores up and our calves good and fed.

So my husband and I have recently taken over his dads cattle operation and the forage is so lifeless and nonexistent that I am trying to come up with other alternatives than just hay and grain. So my idea is to plant about 2 acres with corn, green beans, cucumbers, pumpkins, carrots and squash...

I believe I bought the wrong feed....will a feed with decoquinate hurt calves that don’t have coccidiosis if I give it to them???