Recent content by Sugar Creek

I frequently hear people say they have trouble telling the difference but with experience you can tell at a glance or at long distance. They are two different types of cattle and I think Red Polls often are disparaged unfairly in a direct comparison. The gentle nature and ease of handling of the...

I had a bull calf born in January that looked really nice just like his mates. In late March on a hot day I found him standing in a small creek with his head down. He had scours and signs of pneumonia. I roped him and gave a big long lasting antibiotic pill and he seemed to get better. Ever...

Head & neck of calf are solid red but the entire body is as much white as red. As much white as a Holstein but in a pattern more like an old-style Maine-Anjou or Maine influenced Shorthorn. It is a nice calf, very beefy and over 80 lbs. I had intended to keep the nicer heifers out of this cross...

Have about a dozen registered Red Poll cows, I have raised myself, running with the crossbred cows. Last year bought a yearling Registered Red Poll from neighbor a county over. There is no chance the cows were exposed to another bull. The first calf of the year came last week out of a Red Poll...

Thanks Alabamacowman Calf is still looking good, cast is dry and no apparrent drainage. Worst thing is keeping the cow up all this time, she sure would like to go out and join the rest. I think I will try and remove the cast at about 16 days after the break. Mud here is terrible, we have had a...

Had a nice new bull calf born fine but when I checked the next day it had a broken lower hind leg that had broken through the skin. I was not sure the calf had nursed. Had to haul it in the truck to the nearest vet. He was out on a call and I did not get the calf back home until the next...

I few years ago I bought about 9 open Red Poll heifers and posted on this board for advise on what to breed them to. Replies were generally negative about the breed (not enough muscle, too much milk, etc. ) Went ahead and bought a Red Poll bull and used him on the heifers and some shorthorn and...

Thanks for the replies. I have a standpipe in the middle of a pond dug in 1972. Feeds two tanks through a iron pipe coming through the pond dam and running underground to the tanks. I took Dun's advise and built a cage out of old pieces of fence panel (lots of baling wire holds it down and...

Nothin like a little common sense. I think the heat has gone to my brain. Does anyone else just keep doing the same thing and hoping for a different result, or is it just me?

I have a pond that feeds two concrete stock tanks, controled by floats that rise with water level and shut off water coming out of 3/4 inch galvanized standpipe. Over the years I have had some trouble with ice pushing up and breaking stem that holds float. This summer the cattle have learned...

Thanks, Dun, for your thoughtful replies. I enjoy reading a lot of the joshing around but value the forum most as a place to ask what some might think simple questions, yet get valuable comments.

Since I buy most of my hay, I am usually low on stored feed by mid-March. Never take the cows off pasture and they lose their interest in hay on warm days pretty early. Is this very harmful to the grass and lower its production? I supplement with a little grain during this transition period...

Nice heifers. Look a lot like the five I kept over this winter. Red Polls around the world are remarkably uniform in the way they look due to the lack of other blood being crossed in. Like your set-up but I'll take our green Kentucky hillsides.

Heifers came from R.A. Chinn of Danville and bull from Jim Doll of northern Kentucky. Also have cattle from Burley Ridge farm of Alex Johnson. Attended the Beef Expo in Louisville and they all said it was the best sale in years. Leo Young of Shelbyville seemed to have the best selling Red...

I currently have 8 registered Red Polls, most having just had their 2nd calves. They all calved in March last year. They all came in Feb this year. I also have some grade Red Polls and Shorthorns and Shorthorn crosses. Bought the Red Polls as yearlings and they have been nearly trouble free...