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I recently read an article on Weevils and it pointed out that they are mainly eating the good nutrients. They recommended that the individual go ahead and feed what they had but not to expect the weight gain that should be normal with that feed. :frowns:

Since you want to stay Red, as do I, have you looked into getting a Shorthorn Bull to go with the Red Angus and raise "Durham Reds". The following gives you info into this. http://www.shorthorn.org/asa/tabID_3789/tailored.aspx Ret AF Sgt

There could be 3 causes that I'm familiar with; 1) broken/bad tooth, 2) as mentioned, stick or thorn, 3) snake bite. Again get the Vet to check it. :)

Disk and harrow in a angle (X) from the way the rows ran. This worked well in ancient times when corn rows were knocked down and oats or barley sown; of course back then it was standard practice to disk and harrow before planting and again after. As previously stated you may have to do this for...

My family canned meat before my home town put in a locker plant. They used jars, mason lids (two piece), large pots w/lids (they called canners). A 6-700 lb calf was usually a two day process. When the jars were cool and lids checked for proper tightness the finished product was transported to...

As always what goes around comes around. Many years ago, before combinding corn & baleing corn stocks was in, all farmers/corn growers in NE Nebraska grazed the corn stocks. After several inches to over a foot of snow there was nothing else other than Hay. When it was still popular to "pick corn...

Thank you Bigbull338 & Fourstates -- The knowledge available here is like opening a new book every time I log on. The second part is remembering where you read it and finding it when needed. :D

Help me out "Fourstates" what is the E6 program.

Crossbred, horned Hereford cow, red Shorthorn bull (polled). Had a cow that looked like this one. Would you call that a herefhorn or a shortferd? :)

An the calls from the audance said?

They are all good looking bulls. I like z109 and runner up is z051.

I haven't found any banders at TSC that will work on a 7mo old calf. The more expensive ones are the only ones I've found for that old of calf.

On a cold wind blown hill in NE Nebraska. A day to be remembered and to remember that Freedom trully is not Free.

My Dad had a earthen pit dug into a hill side. The only plastic sheeting he used was to cover the contents when finished. One of things that made this pit sucessful was he would drive a tractor over the contents, packing it much tighter especially on the edges than some of the more modern pits...

Great looking heifers, I really like the first (top) one. :D