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Ahhhhh I gotcha! Thanks!

I'm not getting defensive about this and I do understand under normal circumstances generating soil takes eons to build up. Most would give their left arm to have more than 2' of soil. In the last 3 years alone I've picked up over a foot here from flood deposits. Granted these have been some...

And there's seed spread from surrounding fescue and flooding too. The manure used as fertilizer will have hitchhikers. Expect creep. Just looking for feedback if this makes sense from those that know what they are doing - HA! Newbies think all these "great" thoughts without fully understanding...

Existing established pasture is old Missouri river bottoms, heavy fescue, clovers, some lez. Periodic spring floods drop a couple inches of new soil every few years. Clean of chemicals and toxins, the soil tested great except a tad low in lyme. Got sufficient pasture for the number of head I...

Do cows get PMS? LOL! Now that I understand what I was seeing is normal cycling, we're good. Thanks for cluing a newbie in!

She's "dried". No bull in the picture but I did find a hole in the fence the bigger gal apparently found - her tracks. So all's well! Thanks!

Great! Now that it's daylight I'm going to head back down and look closer at tracks. Obiously main concern is that this is normal and not a condition that needs care. Duh, and I don't know any better but at least recognize different. Yeah, see if she gets to sleep in the wet spot in the...

New at this and starting out. Only have 2 hiefers - one 7 mo old and the angus cross with discharge 6 months. These are big, well fed, healthy girls I've raised from bottle babies. Innoculated and wormed when brought in 5 months ago. The older heifer was trying to mount 3-4 weeks ago. Now I...

Raise beef so tender ya can gum it down? Saweeet! I like it! :lol2:

Thanks all for the imput! Decided to pay another $70 ($200) and got a 5 wk old angus cross hef instead. Go poke around and see if I can find a decent proven nurse cow and be done with that.

Did a search of free martens on this site and that's where the numbers and info from hormones transversing placentas came from. When it comes down to placentas touching and passing hormones through osmosis or blood transferrence it's actually harder to believe it's not close to 100%. IIf that...

I was debating that it seemed a pretty good no loss deal for $130. The sterile part threw me some. I'm just getting started and have pasture and hay up the wazoo and nothing to eat it. Yes, I'm not really focused on feeding out and a steer would get more size but also more $$ upfront. Feeding...

OK, after searching the forums see that if the other twin is male there's a 90% chance the female will be sterile. This is supposed to be the case due to the male hormones crossing placentas by blood. That makes sense - but is there any indicators other than a vet check to tell if she's the 90%...