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Long story short I have 5 strandes of barbed wire as my perimeter fencing.....well my neighbor has said he will let my son and I hunt his land next door....... I don't like the idea of climbing/jumping up and over the H braces everytime with my son......some of my H braces are made with old...

I bought this bull 2 months ago to cover 24 cows......well he hung out with them around the clock up until about four days ago, now all he does is eat and has nothing to do with them.....do y'all think he's covered them in two months or has he been so busy that he is now more interested in...

I want y'alls thoughts on those trailers you load with round bales and then feed from......I'm looking at leasing some land a few miles down the road and would like to load the hay at the house and then pull the hay down there.....that way I wouldn't have to deal with having a tractor or hay...

We have a bottle calf (that we got for our 9 yr old son) that was a rejected twin. It is 10 days old born small. She did get come colostrum from the mother. It has been drinking 2 liters in the morning and 2 liters at night for the guy we got him from. She would walk up and nurse the bottle...

I wanted to start a new thread to let everyone know how much I appreciate all of y'alls suggestions and wisdom........thank you........after 18 days I went outside for the normal routine of turning her only to find she was standing across the yard! She's wobbling as she walks but she's up...

please be patient with me on this b/c I did read a bunch of posts with the search button..... as per my prior post I have a 15 month old heifer down that delivered a dead calf.....she's had LA 200 and several doses of steroids I also try to pick her up with the tractor twice per day.....with all...

we pulled the bull out when she was 6 months old but she still got breed.....now I have a dead calf and she's down with a weak rear end and can't stand.....this was a heifer that I was keeping and was gonna breed this summer....not cool....what's the earliest y'all have had one breed? I thought...

long stroy short if you are having trouble with hogs using part of your pasture as a wallow what is the best way to reclaim it? I assume we need to dump some dirt in the area and then smooth it out then disk it but I am no row cropper......any and all suggestions are appreciated.....thank you.

To start off we are a small farm with only about 20 or so momma cows and have only had cows for about 4yrs.....this actually happened last Sunday morning while checking cows.....long story short went out on our coldest morning this year (wind chill of 9) and found a calf wandering around the...

well we are in the process of installing our richie four hole waters.....I plan to place them along a fence line so I have two holes on each side....my question is when running the fence over the richie do you use just regular old fence or do you need to build something heavy duty to keep cows...

this calf was born yesterday.....funny looking little heifer....the dumbo of the cow world :lol: thought y'all might enjoy!

I have a 15 month old heifer that is all of a sudden looking terrible and has the squirts like she's on spring grass.....none of the other cows have it.....any ideas? thinking of taking her to the vet but can an antibiotic or something treat this? and how will the vet know if we can treat it...

I weaned a 9 month old calf (just coming on 9 months) last night and put him on the trailer.....just got home from the sale barn and he weighed 715#'s....his dad was a red angus bull and his mom's back ground is unknown but looks like santa gertrudis anyhow he has nothing but grass and mom's...

saw this on the craigslist.....I'm not interested in buying the bull but I am interested in educated eyes (yall) telling me whatcha think of him just from a couple pics (so maybe I can start seeing things more as a cattleman instead of just a newbie :D ).....thanks Chris...

My wife and I worked our cows yesterday....long story short this is only my third year having cows and I've cut the calves every year but only because that's what I was told to do :D but that got me to thinking....when is the best age to cut a bull calf? and why is it? any and all suggestions...

I've come across a gentleman who is selling out all his cows....he has 3 6 yr old cows and 4 calves (1 set of twins) all hereferd.....I don't know anything about hereferds and was wanting some advice.....at today's prices do hereferds bring as much as black cattle? the cows have breed back...

my question is how do you run your t-posts with your barbed wire.....seems some run the t-posts so that they are facing out (the bumpy ridged side towards the outside of the fence....fence is smooth on outside and looks real good)....some have the t-posts facing in (the bumpy ridged side in and...

we had a cow die a week after calving (earlier posts) well now I have another question.....the calf is taking to the bottle very well and I have the bottle hanging in a bottle cage with that said do I have to stand there and make sure the calf doesn't drink it all down and start sucking in a...

let me start by saying that for the most part my cows/calves are bucket trained with that being said I do have an American bulldog gyp that has caught several calves for me and also will get after any cow that's miss behaving.....I know I don't have the traditonal cow dog but I was wondering...

found one of my cows dead this afternoon after work.....she has a week old calf (he was trying to suck off of her even though she was dead)....what has been y'alls expierence with how well we can bottle fed this calf? have you ever had another momma adopt one?