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    bull ?

    well i brought a friends bull over middle of last month to run with my girls after 3 weeks i have seen the heifers ridding the bull , but never seen the bull ridding them yet , got a steer about 600 lbs trying to ride them they just walk away from him sopose its to hot for him ? my buddy says...
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    toxic grass ?

    so i heard that corn & or corn stocks that is grown in the drought can be toxic so how do we know if the wasted corn crop is toxic? looks like my corn field (i been watering it out of the pond) is tassling at 3 ft height what about the pasture grass that is drought stressed. is the pasture a...
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    hot branding ?

    so im thinking of branding my cows. when they go next door they are hard to pick out esplesly when they lose the ear tag this has happened several times through the years. so i helped brand caves some 30 years ago but i have forgotten put iron in fire is it soposed to be white hot? how long to...
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    kill the army worms kill the army worms

    ok im not elmer fud but im 46 miles north of springfield ,mo. my wife found army worms infested in the fence row :bang: between garden & pasture i here about these guys 100 miles south of me with no grass from army worms :mad: so any sugestions on kill them before they take out the grass...
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    green water tank?

    i got a 500 gal water tank for 3 small calves & it gets green looking so i put 5 gold fish in it last time i changed the water well its still turing green so what do you put in the water to fix this ? that wont kill the fish. i hate to dump near 500 gal s just to wash it out.
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    how to stop a dry nurser

    so one of my bottle calves thats 7 months old & been weaned off for 5 1/2 months now all of a sudden is trying to nurse the unbred heffer. i tryed putting then in seprate paddoks but the 1050LB heffer wanked across my cattle guard twice now to get to the calf. im affraid shell break a leg ...
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    pig hauling for hire or free

    so i had a guy contact me wanting a pair of pot belly pigs transported 200 miles to his new home. i explanied to him that it was 474 miles from my house to pigs then to destionation then i had to drive home . diesel pu gets 10.5 mpg pulling horse trailer & i would need to know value of pigs for...
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    bottle weaning?

    well i searched but got no hits on advice weaning bottle raizsed calfs i got a heffer, plan to keep , shes about 7 weeks now. still wont take feed i m thinking i want her to be a grass raised cow anyway any advice on weaning & or when thanks for all advice youall can give
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    when to worm bottle calfs

    so when do you worm bobbie calfs? & what type do you recomend?
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    grass fed beef ?

    i got a heffer thats not growing much so was thinking of taking her to the butcher . i never had grass fed beef so went buy the health food store to get some grass fed burger to try , $ 8. for 2 patties thats about $14. a lb well its not bad but i like the store burger at $2.49 a lb better so...
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    bottle calves?

    so im concidering some jersey bottle calves, any opions on the jersey for beef? whats the cost of bottle calves these days? its been 33 years science i rased any
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    boney calves

    got these 4 heffers ther all soposed to be the same age they are 16 mo. old & all some how related .came from the same place .. all were wormed oct 09 the one on the right inside is smaller by far & looks boney to me . should i take her to vet ? i been feeding 1 lb of allstock a day per head...
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    hoof?

    2 of my caves have this crocked left rear ankle it doesnt slow them down at all just looks swolen . it has been this way all along & no change
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    what breed is it?

    i got 4 hefers that are charlay cross , they had a holsten bull several generations back . anyway 2 are white & one is a pretty cinnamion color & one is 1/2 cinnamon color so what breed brings the cinnamon color in
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