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For me the proofs in the pudding as they say. I have owned some registered cattle that weren't any better or raised any better calves than the ones i bought at the sale barn. A lot of the bulls that i have owned have been registered as well but i couldn't care less if they were or not. Same...

[/b] Agree completely.

I do like dmfarms and buy little lights and do ok with that but you can also loose big, little fly weights like to find a reason to die. You better be set up to check health at least twice daily and be able to doctor em quickly. We have in the past bought open heifers (ready to breed) and...

Hate to hijack backhoe but what is hubam clover, I have been wanting to plant some type of clover in my nurse cow patch and various types of burr clover are all i have come up with. This hubam sounds like the ticket i guess it would grow here if it will grow at your place.

Welcome to the area! I'm in San Saba which is about an hour south of you. You will like it here. I grew up in South East Texas (gulf coast). It was hot, humid and miserable and there was no spring and fall, just went from summer to nasty, rainy winter. Here it is HOT in the summer , no...

You never want hay available to pre ruminanting calves. Why? I read a study that it is actually beneficial to their rumen development for them to consume some hay even though the rumen isn't fully functional. Also, how would you keep them from eating hay if they are with their mothers and...

Cattle love johnson grass, especially when its young and tender. after it heads out, its like anything else it gets tough and rank. If it has already headed out then you will have it next year. Seems like the more you disc it and try to get rid of it, the more of it you have. If you put...

I have always been told that if they are grazing it when the grass begins to stress and gets the prusic acid build up, it wont bother them.But if you turn in on a patch that has the prusic acid problem, then you will have big problems. I have a bunch of light weight calves turned out on johnson...

I know of nothing more profitable in commercial cattle than nurse cows. When I retire from my day job, I may run a dozen nurse cows myself. Back hoe, I couldn't agree more, last year, i raised a dozen calves off of 4 cows. I do the same i buy splits at the sale barn. It can be alot of work...

I have been kicking this same question around for several years now. In the past, i have kept back a calf a year at weaning and fed him out and usually split him with another family. I have to agree with many others that the quality of the home raised beef by far exceeds the quality that you...

As Rush Says "Right on, Right on , Right on"

I forgot to ask in my previous post about disking klien grass. My hayfields are starting to green out and I have just finished spraying weeds, I think in the drought that some of my klien and willman love grass may have died. Someone told me to disk them and it will come back thicker than...

Hello Everyone, I have been reading posts from this forum for a while now but have just now became a member. I live in central texas and run a small cow/calf operation and also buy some stocker calves in the fall and put them on wheat/feed them. With the cost of farming going up every year...