Recent content by TheLazyM

Mark I know whatcha mean about good hay is hard to find. That's when you buy the best you can get. That still puts your supplement in position to work for you. I watch guys every year go out and buy the cheapest hay and feed roughage tubs, feed, and grain and still lose weight. Its so heart...

I agree to feed more. The suggested supplement rations is .01-.03 %. Using the lowest numbers in this equation .01x400 lbs is 4lbs of feed. 1.5 lbs of feed is just wasting money. If you want to "treat" or food train your cattle you can w/ square hay etc. What the feed is going to add is energy...

Mark as you noticed culls do in fact sell at the sale. To understand why this is you simply answer the question what is a cull? Simplest answer is a cull is a animal cut from a producers herd that didn't meet "their" standards not "the standard". What producer may not want in his herd doesn't...

I assume your running cattle also. If you do run cross fenceing and rotate the cattle and goats. Works real well for a worming program. Plus the goats will eat more of the weeds and brushing leaving more grass for the cattle. Goats and cattle work very well together. Goats do well with alot of...

Sorry Caustic Burno, I was'nt asking about using grazon weed control I typo'd. I was saying I have more than 1 pasture and I grow more grass than what is beening grazed. What I want to know is if running 2 bulls crossing bull a w/ bull b's daughters would hurt the bottom line. I did see...

Now w/ all thats been said. Do you put the kept back heifers w/ their sire or brother and do you have anthor bull for this setup. Why I ask is cause I have more than enough ground right now than I'm using,"grazon". I can have 2 herds. I have 2 bull calves right now that I can raise to use. I...

I see where your at now. No i dont know why. These where old bred cows I bought. I just came up to a dead calf. The cows seemed fine. It was'nt 5 in a row either. Its was 5 stretched out over like 20 weeks. I would have a dead calf then like 6 would be born taken my mind away from it.

makes sense to me.

I did'nt lose any at a week old. Yea I concider my lose high.

1st I did'nt say all 18 got weined. Just I sold the cows at weining. I call a 1 minute old female calf a heifer untell she drops a calf. Dude my calves never get over 6 months old before they are weined.

Man its never boring learn about cattle. I understood the points on both sides of this fence. However I think Caustic Burno made the best case. An animal eating this years feed and grass needs to add to this year's income. If your not raising cattle for your main source of income then you can...

Just like I never said a mountain lion killed my calves. Neither did I say coyotes killed a yearling heifer.

Kinda what I was thinking. When I said 1-11/2 year return. Thanks for you insight in both posts.

Please, please, please show me where I said a moutain lion killed my heifers. I trust my friends that are rangers and gamewardens. Then seen moutain lions. Next to God coming up to me and telling me he does'nt have any moutain lions in Alabama I'm going to leave it right there. I have...

Aight so what do you suggest put him with the heifers this fall or next spring. The 15 animals I bought the past 2 days very close to age, size and body condiction. I would say the youngest is 5 months and the oldest 9 months. I can really throw the feed to them to build them up. If our weather...