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I have been 100% longhorn, but purchased 7 or 8 red angus heifers this spring. We're going to put a Longhorn bull on them in the fall. I have not had to pull a calf in over 5 years. All of our cows calve in the pasture. We market most of our steers as freezer beef, so hoping that the crossbreds...

We can back the protein off as they finish, in fact, I would rather do that since my corn is cheaper than SBM. But, one thing that I have found is that with Longhorns it seems that a little higher protein helps them finish a little bigger than without. Not sure if it's due to the fact they are...

We finish out about 20-30 head a year for our freezer beef business, and run about 30 cows. I usually come up with a ration to feed both the feedlot and supplement the cow herd. The best gains I have ever had was using a steer stuffer with a ration that included soy hull pellets and no...

I would be interested to know what they find out.

Aureomycin was a little of both. Treatment on anything that may have had salmonella, and hopefully knock it out on anything that wasn't showing any signs. From what I've been told, it is difficult to treat salmonella, but our lab results showed that what we had was susceptible to it.

There is only 1 vaccine available that I know of for Type A. The normal 7 way that we give is C&D. I'll include the info on what I found about it. Salmonella is also available, but I believe my vet said it is only in the 50% effective range. Our lab results came back that aureomycin would...

I have heard of several producers in my area having the same symptoms. Weight loss, watery manure, etc, etc. They never went off feed, just did poor and went down hill. To me it looks like Johnes, but these cattle were too young. All around a year or less. Wet weather, flooded grass, and...

Just wanted to post an update on the issue that we have been having. Got the test results back on the necropsy and tested positive for Salmonella and Clostridial type A. Both are something not normally vaccinated against. We treated the entire herd with a round of Aureomycin, and shipped the...

We had a new vet out today to do a necropsy on one of these calves. She seems to be really knowledgeable, and we really like her. My wife helped with it, since I couldn't get out of work. So, she did take lots of pictures to send me so I could take a look at things. If anyone is interested I...

Has anyone had any experience with liver flukes or deer flukes? I had mentioned this to my vet a year or so ago, and was told that it probably wasn't an issue. From what I've read about flukes, it's a possibility that they give some of the signs we are seeing.

Treated right after the 4th of July. Still going downhill since then. I didn't notice any evidence of coccidiosis, but did the treatment just as a precaution.

Did a 3 day treatment of Corid and didn't seem to help.

I did see that post, and have thought this in the past when we have a calf out the blue like this. We had a really wet spring and just started drying up the last 3 weeks. I'm wondering if we aren't dealing with something brought on by that.