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Does it kill flies or does it just make cows smell bad? If you miss a calf or two are all the flies going to end up on them?

When I look up market reports, I see, for instance, steers 1, steers 2, heifers 1 and heifers 2. What is the difference in 1 and 2? I have seen instances where the 2s brought more money than the 1s on some weights, but not very often. What does it take to make a 2, is that a bony calf or an off...

The beef kind, don't see much mention of them. Seem to be geared toward the small grass fed freezer beef farmer. Might have more market acceptance than the belties or highlanders kept for this purpose. Especially if you bred them to a black bull. Anybody know anything about them?

Anybody have any experience with what salebarns do to black galloways? I'm not talking belted here, but wondering if you get docked for extra hair. Wondering how much hair Hereford would knock off of the calves, too. My goal would be having a black animal without having to deal with angus in the...

Sorry if this is a little disjointed, but here goes. My wife was reading an article off of her facebook feed about foal performance after assisted birth or C-section. My selective hearing tuned in on key parts of the conversation. Basically they have been researching horses, and they found out...

Here is a trivia question to pass the time while waiting on calves. Winner gets as much snow as he can haul. What do the following breeds have in common? Adaptur American Milking Zebu Barzona Beefmaster Belgian Blue Bellmont Red Blonde de' Aquitaine Bonsmara Droughtmaster Enderby Isalnd Illawara...

So, I put a Shorthorn bull on my predominantly Hereford/Angus herd, trying to get some substance and easy fleshing properties back into my cow herd. They should get some hybrid vigor whether they trend to the Angus side or the Hereford. Should get red around the eyes for pinkeye, and should...

Virginia's big sky country? 13 year old coming up the hill. 1/4 Limo 1/4 Herf 1/2 Angus. Her again. The one closest is the 13 year olds daughter out of a Lim/Sim bull and the next one is that cows daughter out of a Herford bull. Those two raise some of the biggest calves on the place.

What's with the lift kit in the tailheads on some of these bulls out there? Is that the current fashion? It has been my experience that a high tail head often indicates an animal with a narrow pelvis, and if she makes it to a cow, once she gets any age she has a topline that looks like a piece...

How do you weigh your calves? I'm thinking sling or feed sack and spring scale and get somebody dumb that hasn't screwed their back up yet to hoist it up for you. Has anyone used the hoof tape? What is legal as far as breed registries are concerned? When do you weigh, for an "official"...

Anyone have any experience doing this? How much does it cost to put them in? What is a good price for embryos? Can most vets do it, or is it pretty specialized?

Anybody heard about the stuff going down in Nevada? Seems like they have federales rounding up a guys cows cause he quit paying for permits to graze land that his family had been grazing for generations. Mainly quit paying because they wouldn't issue permits on that land any more because of a...

I was just wondering if anyone ever has semen processed on farm? I know they use a teaser animal and the artificial deal for the bulls in the flyers, and they have to pretty much train the bull. On a smaller scale you would probably have to run him through the chute and use the electric deal...

Could someone please explain the concept of AI certificates to me? I'm a lifelong cattle producer but on the commercial end, looking into purebreds. Wondering why they don't just require a spent straw taped to the application for registry, charge more for the semen and call it a day. I can...

I remember reading about a guy, pretty sure it was Canada, found a range bull that was big and long. This was back when everything was real short and deep. He bred this thing to some cows he had and then line bred the bull back onto his daughter. The story went that he waited up in the barn, and...