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Anyone ever have a calf w/ Joint Ill? Severe swelling in joints in hind legs and one front elbow. Vet says Joint Ill, infection thru naval at birth that settles in the joints. I've got her on a agressive antibiotic plan, and I'm hoping she will make it. I was just seeing if anyone ever had...

Where is the best place to educate yourself about nutrition requirements? I'd like to learn how to formulate mixes for different classes of my cows (lactating, dry, 6-7weights, yearling steers and heifers, etc) based on what forage and/or hay I have available. I've played around with the Ok...

I have no experience with horses, donkeys, or anything but cows. I'm thinking of getting a few for coyote protection. We've probably only lost 2 calves last year to dogs/coyotes, but in the last year all of our barn cats have mysteriously disappeared. I'm assuming that the coyotes got them...

I'm looking at building a creep feeder out of wood and plywood. I'm wondering how hardie board 4x8 sheets would stand up to cattle abuse. Any experience with this?

What is you recommendation for how to handle and existing stand of KY 31 Fescue? I just attended a class regarding the use of beneficial endophyte fescue such as MaxQ, but I'm not sure I've got the finances to change everything right now. Should I just forget the ability to bale any and keep...

Had a former-dairy neighbor come over this morning and help me AI a few cows. What is the going rate for that service? He supplied labor only. I supplied all semen, shots, supplies, and labor to get cows in and out of chute. It's amazing what 50 years of AI experience will do for speed...

How long should the 1.33lb t-posts last in the south east? Reason I'm asking is that my family rebuild alot of our fencing about 25 years ago. about 8 or so years ago, a few pastures my Dad had a guy go and set t-posts in between all of the cedar posts to help reinforce the fence. Now I need...

We have a cow who calved on Monday. This is her second calf. She left her calf, and then tried to steal another cow's calf that was already a week old. She would knock her calf around with her head, and kick it off when it wanted to suck, then would chase the week old calf's mama away when...

Anyone ever painted a tin roof? I'm looking for product recommendations that you've seen good results with. We have the roof to our old dairy barn, a shop, small storage warehouse, and 2 grain bins that I'd like to get several more years out of the roof.

Anybody ever feel the slightest bit bad for the cows and calves when you wean them off? We weaned a few yesterday, and I was building a few new mineral feeders beside one of the mama pastures. Cows running around bellowing looking for their calves. Good thing in only lasts for a day or so...

If you don't use Liquid Nitrogen for your freeze branding, where do you get the 95% to 99% alcohol to use with the dry ice? The only place I've found it so far locally is a chemical company that minimum size is a 55gal drum. BL

28 Month old Black Angus Heifer, Uterine Prolapse from a HUGE dead calf w/ Huge Huge Head. Vet came and put uterus back in, but found out that there is severe popping and movement in her pelvis and rear hips. He said he doubt that she'd ever stand. We tried with the hip huggers, but she never...

Can anyone give me pointers about raising stockers thru the summer? I'm just trying to find a way to get some short term monetary gains. I'd like to hear experienced opinions on the following: what age to buy, (maybe buy the youngest/smallest at a sale barn) how long to keep them, (90-120...

Can anyone give me their thoughts on this corn silage analysis. This is what we grew in 2011 and have just started feeding. We've gotton some interest from dairymen to purchase some. --------------------------------------------as Sampled-----------------------100% Dry Matter Crude Protein...

We have a mostly commercial herd with very few registered angus cows. A year ago we culled a registered angus bull b/c of a front shoulder issue. I got a good deal on (2) registered angus bulls, but I missed the fact that one of them was related to the bull I culled until after I got them...

I've got 1/2 of a steer that I need to sale on Craigslist so I can have it harvested for a customer. I've already got a buyer for the 1st half. My customers have always been family and friends. Now I feel that I need a contract for the ramdom person to sign b/c I don't have room to store it...

I was wondering what everyone used for weigthing their cattle. We have a chute, but no weigh bars on it yet. I'm going to have to buy some, mount them, and then set up areas in our different pastures to have a level place to set up the chute. This would be for weaning and yearling weights...

I need some advice on how to determine rations. My family operated a dairy farm until my dad passed away a few years ago. Now I am trying to build up a beef herd. We have the strorage capacity and equipment to mix feed in a vertical mixer. We still have some holstein heifers that we are...