Recent content by Southview Sweetheart

With calving season comes tags. We have issues in the past with tags not being quite legible so i was wondering if anyone knows of a stencil or something that would fit onto a tag? this way it doesn't matter who makes up the tags, they will all be the same.

Thanks everyone for your ideas. She has been put out in the yard for the past few months and will remain out there for the duration of the winter. Im hoping the time out and not being pampered will have been enough. Otherwise i suppose she is going to have to learn the hard way that it hurts...

Hello Everyone! I have been having some issues with an overly "friendly" heifer. I showed her as a calf and even then she would have the tendency to push and hit with her head when you turned your back to her or whenever I went into the pen to catch her with her halter. Now that she's a lot...

At our farm it is almost a tradition to show a cow calf pairing. Dad always chooses the cow and the two of us get to work halter breaking the two of them as quickly as possible. I think dad loves it so much because he's so proud of his hard work he puts into his herd.

Thanks everyone for your help :) i think ill pick up a foamer and play around with it!

Hi everyone, Im contemplating buying a soap foamer for this show season. I usually just shampoo my heifers by hand but my 4-H youth leader brought his foamer to a show and let us use it on our cattle. I liked how it worked but I'm also religiously addicted to the way orvus cleans my cattle. Can...