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I will go against the crowd here and say that if your cows have sufficient milk to raise calves past 3 months, and they maintain adequate body condition throughout, then I’d keep the heifers and feed them and grow them until they get about 700-750# and breed them to a heifer bull. The main...

He didn't ask if he should get rid of them, he asked if he should be feeding them more. I feel like everybody dog piled him about his heifers. Some said low quality. Or inferior, or stunted. All I’m saying is how can anybody assume he has low quality heifers? Maybe they have quite superior...

I think you have a lot of people here telling you you have poor quality heifers! What a disservice they are doing to you by assuming that. Too many cattle people will preach to you that if they do not wean at 600-700# that you do not have good cattle. That could can’t be further from the truth...

I use an iPad when I get it charged, but have used my iPhone on occasion. Both work fine as I’m sure android would. It’s just an app and the unit bluetooths to device.

Really no issues at all seeing it. But since I’ve had it, I find that I really don’t use the parallel line function much. Once the A/B lines are set I find that my pastures and my sprayer/fertilizer buggy all come together better with the coverage function. It colors the ground you’ve covered...

On Trac by agricision works great for me. Low cost setup and easily move between machines. May be less precision than some but perfect for spraying and fertilizing.

If I am a cow/calf operator, and my goal is to continually improve my herd, as it should be, then keeping heifer calves off of heifers should not be a problem. I have seen cows go from producers to non producers in their productive life. But more times than not, if selected properly, genetics...

There are a lot of good breeds that are regional. One thing to count on with an angus/red angus base is that Simmental cattle will work anywhere for anybody. Hereford used to be the go to crossbreeding bulls, but Simmental has taken a huge chunk of that market share. Not to mention, Simmental...

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If you have vets in your town, you’re luckier than most. I also have vets in my town that a lot of people consider to be “bad vets” They get that reputation because they treat the animals for the problem and not the owner’s diagnosis of the problem. Always be sure that you treat your vet with...

Is there a lane going into the chute? Or are you just trying to get them to go in it from an open pen? A pinch point with a lane about 24-30” wide should send them right into the chute, if you can make them walk.

If it’s bloody at all it will be coccidiosis and it can easily be treated with Corid.

I feed commodity feed in my trip hopper daily and it works just fine. Other than losing a small amount of fines bouncing across the pasture it couldn’t work better actually. Sometimes it’s nice to have a little feed on the bed to occupy the cattle while I open gates or straighten troughs...

Unfortunately, knowing your neighbors and sheriff, game warden, cattle ranger, etc is a thing of the past I guess. If a bull goes missing around here, pretty good chance I’ll hear where he is at the coffee shop. If not, first calls are to my neighbors, then I’ll call the sheriff to see if there...

The A,B,C will never change. Seeds germinate the same as always, calves are conceived and born the same way, weather is still in charge, God is still good…….. The things that can be improved upon such as marketing, selecting genetics, vaccination/doctoring, facilities all come after the things...

And they wonder why there’s a shortage of large animal vets!🤦🏼‍♂️

I would definitely say that vet is taking you to the bank! It’s nice to have those services 10 miles away and available in an emergency, but I would definitely stop using them for routine things. If they charge $350 for a 10 mile trip, then almost 100X what the vaccine should cost, that’s a vet...

Are you sure that’s not $2.18 per head? That seems closer to the actual cost that $218.00. I do not bangs my heifers since I started doing my own vaccinations on farm, but when I took them in and got them vaccinated I remember it being a no brainer to get them bangs because it was so cheap and...

Cattle people tend to be the most over thinking people on the face of the earth. Funny that we will let a tool that cost less than $10, and more times than not we can get for free as a promotional item stand in the way of safely removing ear tags. Ear tags that were most likely overpriced and...

Calving ease in my opinion is the selection tool that is most beneficial to use, not birth weight. As hard as it is for us to accept and adapt to, the genetic technology we see today makes it so easy to pick for the traits we need on our operations. The maternal calving ease is also a lane that...