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He seems a decent choice for your cattle, one that will produce calves that suit the market in our area. Around here the price for 14 to 15 moth old bulls has gone up this year, but not at the rate you would expect given the over all cattle market.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Not knowing what I wanted to do, I enrolled in college after high school and got a teacher's certificate. All my friends were doing something similar. I lived at the time in love with the outdoors and my home county, hunting and fishing at every opportunity. At 19 I...

There use to be a sort of debate on here about the benefits of bush-hogging. Posters from Texas and out west touted spraying pastures for weeds and said they never mowed pastures. I was taught that bush hogs make grass and make it better. I try and mow my fescue pastures as soon as they head out...

The pastures where I run sheep stay remarkably free of weeds and rotating them along with an occasional mowing keeps them looking almost like a lawn. Goats love multiflora rose and I see the cattle nipping off the tip shoots. Both would have to be kept pretty hungry to make a real difference in...

I have about 20 acres of woods that was dominated by White Ash up until the arrival of the Emerald Ash Borer. The understory was spice bush and dogwood. I could ride a horse through all of it and see a cow 100 yards away. First we lost the White Walnuts, then the Red Elm and Spignut Hickories...

The first cow I ever lost was a victim of cherry leaves, eaten after they had wilted when a limb was knocked down by an early summer thunderstorm. This is the dangerous time of the year for this. 18 cows gathered around the fallen limb but only one died, or even got sick that I could tell.

I routinely run an electric wire back 100 ft. from the property line where a neighbor runs bulls on two sides of my farm. His bulls are better than the one shown but not by much, I do not lose that much ground as I plant a garden there and run sheep there part of the year. Lots of bull talk...

I rarely treat for active pinkeye anymore. I do take a lot of steps that I think helps prevent it (or at least its severity). Most get over it without any lasting sign, perhaps a minimal cloudiness or small spot. I had an uncle that had a bugeye calf or two every year. He did not treat...

The higher elevations of my farm are based on a porous limestone that allows rainfall to peculate down into it. This limestone soil sits on a layer of hard shale and in wet weather numerous "wet weather springs" pop out along that layer. They continue to run as long as it stays wet, but when you...

Nutrition is also important, a good mineral mix can help. I have tried all the remedies over the years, shot of LA 300 in the eyelid, patches, vaccines and others. 50 years ago we threw a handful of salt in the affected eye. Control flies as best you can, mow pastures and hope for the best...

Yeah, I like the 3910. I bought it used years ago and it had been left outside and done a lot of rough work before i got it. It seems like any part with plastic or rubber involved is wearing out, but the tractor just keeps on running. There is a good Kubota dealer nearby and a front end loader...

At age 72 I am well into a semi retirement mode. I still have 88 acres of mostly rolling to hilly but productive land, about 20 cows and maybe 20 ewes. My old 3910 Ford still runs well but is in constant demand of having a part replaced due to its age. (Kind of like me) I need a dependable...

Wow! 100 pound plus calves and horns on the cows, both things I try and avoid. But, it seems to meet your goals and you do a great job with your cattle. Beautiful land and cattle, you add a lot of interest to the forum.

We use to put up a lot of red clover square bales. In a wet year and if we were a little late getting to it (late June to early July) the clover would fall down and then regrow. It was hard to mow with the old sickle bar mowers but we went on and baled it with pretty good luck. Yours may be...

Around here we have sinkholes, but I have never had a problem with one. The old hand dug wells are what scare me. At the close of the 1800s and through the 1920s a family would live at the mouth of almost every hollow where it entered the creek. Out of the wind, a little bottom land, and an...

Like Kentucky Hills, I live in a county roughly half Bluegrass and half Eden Hills. The famously fertile and beautiful Bluegrass lands that are today home to horse farms, were noted by early explorers and settlers as barren of surface water in the summer, enough to be a concern when crossing...

I have always gone the card file and notebook route. I have records going back to 1972. They are very flexible, I even sometimes draw pictures. I wonder if these computer records will be accessible for 10 years, much less over 50 years. Seems like everything I have stored digitally is more or...

I kept back several heifers last fall and had one that turned out almost exactly like yours. She was the least of the bunch, out of a first calf heifer and sort of scragly compared to the others. We gave them all a shot of lutylase at weaning but the timing must have been wrong on this one. I...

When Ivermectin came out, it was the trick for worming sheep. Unfortunately, worms in general but barberpole worms in particular quickly developed resistance and it became no more effective than water. You notice this in sheep because without an effective wormer they die. I suspect something...

Strange dogs and neighbors who just bought a new AK 47 and try it out by relieving themselves of a case of ammunition in the field beside the cows.