Recent content by wild one

silly chicken any how, once we cleared up the navel th joints were still pretty bad. We treated with nuflor and predef. We kept him until october maybe november. His joints were still bad Every time we treated he would improve and at the end of the cycle of treatment he would get bad again...

After reading your posts M74 and the replies i tend to agree with navel ill. The joint problems fit the bill. We had one where the navel ill got real bad. It got into the joints got a go got a chicken stuck between the grainery and it's fence will finish later

thanks everyone. i can't stress enough to the younger and up coming farming generation the need to discuss goals and plans with the older generation, to get the feel of what they expect and want. To Get It In Writing. To live on a different quarter. To the older generation, succession plans...

thank you for all your comments. and i hear everything you all have said. so today i have again laid it on the line for my husband. I told him i would like everything in writing. I also told him to call the local ag office and get some information on land rentals. He did and the ag office...

thanks bez. i am curious also. My husband has had a few rude awakenings in the last 6 mo and is growing up. He was afraid to confront because he didn't see the writing on the wall and his parents are old and was afraid of making one or both sick with stress. I'm off to check cattle and then go...

thank you. i thought we hit the bottom of the barrel this past fall. these last couple of years has seen me step out of the confrontation and push the man to do it. he has fianlly seen the light...reason for the bottom of the barrel this past fall but he gets gun shy. i almost broke my rule...

good for you and the pocket book when it comes to marketing the simillar groups of calves We did the same. It also took some convincing but they saw the benifit in the long run.

i need help please. read and post here regularly but i did not want to be recognized. big problem generational farming. we have been here for over a decade and though we have seen some changes there have been major set backs. I am the Daughter in law. (DIL). this is my husand's parents...