Recent content by SixBucksADay

We used to get the bull calves for free and use them for horse practice/training. Now the dairies want real money for them. Someone has found some value there and ruined our fun.

Okayyy, I am out of the loop. My teenagers arn't allowed cell phones unless thay can pay for them themselves. Same goes for satellite and cable TV. Guess what? Anyway, I think I figured it out. L is for laughing and O is for Off???

What is "LMFAO" I see at the end of some posts?

I usually ignore the posts that promote an agenda, are far fetched, off base or just wrong. I understand my experience and opinions are also biased and I can live and learn from every experience, but your ramblings go too far and do the whole cattle industry a disservice to the point , I...

We experienced a severe copper deficiency on a new place we started running. It was a secondary deficiency caused by excessive molybdenum. We could not catch them up with a general, over the counter range mineral. We ultimately wound up giving them all a copper bolus (Coppersure) and thereafter...

Creep feeding will take some burden off the cow and you should see a difference in condition, all variables being equal. Creep feeding calves can be expensive, but if you have a market for high quality carcass calves it can pay. Early creep feeding high energy, solid food to your calves will...

We band at birth now. We used to band at branding time. We gained a few more pounds by waiting until branding time, but we felt the time and stress to the animal wasn't worth it. We never tested it, but our thoughts are that we loose what we gained (lbs) by banding at branding because of the...

I have never heard of a parasite traveling through the placenta. Does someone know of an exception? We operate in the NW. I'm sure the south has different conditions. Every parasite I can think of requires a larval stage. In general eggs are passed in the feces by an infected animal onto the...

It was never used on anything bred. These were all babies on the mom at time of treatment. Our vet has always been complimentary of our health program. He is probably right, just thought I would see if anyone else noticed. That treatment with mastitis medicine is interesting. We use a patch too...

We have many hundreds of calves each year. At birth we give each a shot of multi-min, vit A and D, weigh them, band the bull calves that are over our weight criteria and spray the navel with an idodine solution ( if we get to them within a half hour of birth; a neighbor uses Nolvasan for a...

We run a substantial herd with an extensive vaccination program. We vaccinated for pink-eye yet still wind up with four or five cases each year. I used to use 1/2 cc PreDef with 1/2 cc Oxytet in the eyelid and it always did a great job at clearing it up. We also keep detailed records. We usually...

We butcher our own. It's usually an open heifer or two. We have a band saw, grinder, locker, etc. Even a whole room dedicated to the process. We do, however, have a mobile slaughter guy come out and whack em for us. For $65 bucks he gets them hanging in halves. He is done in 20 minutes what...

It's not quite like a horses foot x2. When trimming horses, the heal looks invitingly easy to trim, but you better think twice. If you have shod many horses you know what I mean. On a cow the heel doesn't usually present much to trim and usually doesn't need it. Unless there has been injury or a...

Not sure how big of horns you are talking about. Occasionally we miss some at branding and we wind up dealing with them just before weaning or at weaning. If the horns are two to four inches long, we put castrating bands on them. We use the little green bands and put two on each horn just in...