Recent content by Tealduck

She had never developed firmness in her any of her quarters like this before when she was sacking up for a calf so it caused me concern. That is why I was seeing what would come out. I used to milk this cow so I know what is normal for her.

I have a 6 yr old cow due to calve June 9 and as I was handling her today i noticed her hind right quarter has a slight firmness to it but not hard. No heat, obviously no pain since she didn't try to kick me when I was milking her to see if anything would come out. Thick yellow stuff comes out...

Well, I'm a pretty straight up kind of person so the person usually knows right off the bat if they've irritated me in some way. It kind of makes or break the relationship. They either quit being nosy, gossipy, gripey or whatever offense they have committed or they get ticked. Either way, it's a...

You could have also pricked a blood vessel and caused a hematoma. I have had that happen to me once and it eventually went away. Duck

We also have a couple of walnut trees in our pasture but our cows have never eaten them, but the green husk on the walnuts will cause abortions in cattle as well as horses. I don't know how many they would have to eat to cause an abortion though. Duck

Last year I had something similar happen to a young bull. His hind teats were swollen with mastitis like symptoms, swelling, heat and pus (or something). Called the vet and he laughed and said he had never heard of anything like that but said to treat it as if it was mastitis, give antibiotics...

I don't mind doing a LITTLE dickering when I'm selling cattle, but there are 2 things that are deal breakers with me and those are a) somebody making an unreasonably low offer. To me they looking for something for nothing. Make a reasonable offer and I may be more inclined to negotiate and b)...

I was going through some of my husbands National Geographics a few years ago from the 1970's and on several covers was talk of the "impending ice age". When I saw them I remembered all the hoopla about that. Makes you wonder how in the heck you go from impending ice age to global warming in a...

She looks like she's been rode hard and put up wet ugly as homemade sin he ain't worth wasting a bullet on a man in a white jacket is coming for you and it won't be the Good Humor man cold as a well diggers a$$ he's so sorry he should have died when he was big enough to hung with a pea vine...

Well, the way I do it is pick up the sack of feed, balance it on my thigh, then pick it up again and put it on my shoulder. I TRY to put it where it sort folds over my shoulder evenly where it will balance and I can use my hands to unlatch gates and such. But I have to say I've been doing this a...

Probably alot of what I'm going to say has already been said but I'm going to condense it down to one single post. My husband I have raised gerts for a few years, I love them and there is no other breed I'd rather have. We have done well with them in our area. The gerts have a bad rep for poor...

I've dealt with more cases of parvo than I care to think about and one thing, you never forget the smell of parvo. I think the oldest dog I've ever seen with parvo was a little over a year but we were taught that they are susceptable up to 2 years. I have known dogs to survive with just kao and...

In #9, not only is the woman concidered a sexual predator, but a new rule that bans running at school is instituted. Duck

Sad, sad, sad. I'm 40 and I got 17 right. I missed 6, 8 and 20. This not good. Duck

My husband has used ties for corner post. The last ones he put in was back in the early 1980's. They lasted till about 4 yrs ago and when they started breaking off. Duck