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  1. Ruark

    So you had a dead cow and don't know why (CAUTION: pics!)

    In a case like this where the diagnosis is unknown, would it be acceptable to administer both?
  2. Ruark

    Zebus losing hair

    We have a few little Zebu cows in addition to the regular black baldies. The Zebus have been losing hair, especially around the neck and withers. One of them has a spot on his withers that's completely bald. You can see in the pics below. And those light-colored areas are places where the hair...
  3. Ruark

    Need tip on building a cow shelter

    It won't be that elaborate. Just corrugated galvanized roofing and walls. Just something to block the wind. The roof slope is just for rain runoff.
  4. Ruark

    Need tip on building a cow shelter

    You're talking about cutting a "V" in the end of the pipe and having a big space to fill in with some 6010?
  5. Ruark

    Need tip on building a cow shelter

    These would need to be T-connectors and 3-way corner connectors.
  6. Ruark

    Need tip on building a cow shelter

    I need to build a cow shelter, just a 3-walled shelter to block the winter wind when it really blows. The ground has subsurface slab rock, so post holes aren't viable. Just something cheap that works; this isn't the Taj Mahal. It'll be about 10 X 20 feet. 8 feet high in the front, sloping...
  7. Ruark

    Heat...Black...In the Shade

    There's a place down the road from us that has a big open pasture with about 75 angus in it, and NO shade whatsoever. There are 3 or 4 scraggly little mesquites in one corner, and in the summers I see those poor cows almost lying on top of each other trying to grab a little piece of shade. I...
  8. Ruark

    Invasive grass - need ID/help

    I think it's KR bluestem. It grows very flat, right over the surface, mixed in with the Bermuda, then puts up a tall stalk about like a pencil lead, with a Bermuda-like seed head. Nothing kills it selectively, you have to use glyphosate in early spring, then let other grasses grow over it...
  9. Ruark

    Invasive grass - need ID/help

    Can somebody tell me what kind of weed or "grassy weed" this is? I'm sure you've seen it. It grows "flat" with stems radiating out up to 2 feet or longer, then they curve upward into vertical stems sticking straight up 12-18 inches. Sometimes the entire plant can be almost 4 feet wide. About...
  10. Ruark

    Need help with my shredder!

    Thanks for all the answers. I ran down to the Deere place and got some corn head grease. Packed the gearbox with 4 tubes of it. All is good.
  11. Ruark

    Need help with my shredder!

    I'm not sure. It's about $1900 new.
  12. Ruark

    Need help with my shredder!

    I have a 6' Howse shredder a few years old. It's in near-new shape and cuts great. However, I must have gotten some wire around it or something, because the lower seal is blown. When I pour gear oil into it, it just runs right through. No way I can fix this thing by myself. The local tractor...
  13. Ruark

    Getting bugs off your car - what REALLY works?

    Since, like a lot of you folks, we live rural, we spend a sizable amount of time on the highway, even if it's just running into town for a loaf of bread. This means MAJOR buildup of dried bugs on the front of our cars (it dries pretty fast at 75mph). Even if we meticulously clean them all off...
  14. Ruark

    Raccoons and greenhouses

    We're planning to build a low-budget greenhouse in a clearing behind our house in central Texas, covering it with a good plastic greenhouse film. The main crop will be tomatoes. Our area is overrun with raccoons and, to some degree, possums and skunks as well as a few squirrels and rabbits. Do...
  15. Ruark

    Steep Mowing

    Yeah, slopes scare the crap out of me. I have a few small slopes I BH sometimes. What I do is carefully BACK up the slopes, then BH them going downhill in 1st gear. Going across a slope, leaned over sideways, gives me the heebie-jeebies. I just don't do it, ever. If I spray and kill the weeds...
  16. Ruark

    What's the best "throw-out" seed?

    The drought of the past few years has hit some native pastures pretty hard, even with the recent rains. Mine are doing OK, basically, but they developed a few "bare spots," say 40 X 60 feet, that are pretty much just bare dirt. I'm wondering if there is a good "throw-out" seed I can just throw...
  17. Ruark

    Need central Texas farm CPA

    Our CPA has been pretty good, but he's getting up there age-wise, is 2 hours away, and has been a little difficult the last two visits when doing our taxes. We live near Evant, Texas, halfway between Lampasas and Hamilton N/S, and halfway between Goldthwaite and Gatesville E/W. I don't mind...
  18. Ruark

    Triclopyr - For Killing Mesquite/Locust Trees

    Keep in mind that for many of these herbicides, it's all in the labeling. For example, 41% glyphosate is commonly known as Roundup. But there are many other herbicides that purport to do the same thing, like Tractor Supply's "Big 'n Tuf" and another one called "Eraser." All of these are the...
  19. Ruark

    Grasshopper Hail (censored)

    The software won't let me type the popular word for Hades, so I use "hail," the Texas pronunciation of it... 8) Anybody else fighting grasshoppers this summer? We're getting smothered with them, here in central Texas, just south of Hamilton. We have a house on 25 acres, 12 of which is native...
  20. Ruark

    Best 600.00 I think I have ever spent

    Yeaaahhhh, but I don't think I can get a kitchen pass to spend $600 right now and live to tell about it....... :help:
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