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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

OK boys, as per your request, I'm bringing this to this forum for "show and tell." A quick note: I personally don't have any feral hogs on our property - yet - but we're surrounded by them, and some of our neighbors have them to crisis proportions. As a landowner and former hog bowhunter, I'm...

Instead of eating up space here with off-topic (e.g. non-cattle) posts, I'd like to PM with somebody about a method I've developed for killing large numbers of feral hogs quickly, legally and cheaply. I've never tested it, but it would definitely work. I need somebody who knows something about...

One of our commodes has been leaking around the base, even after tightening the mounting bolts, so I'm assuming there's an issue with the wax ring. It's about 4 years old. Thing is, it's not a constant leak. It'll be dry as a bone for a week, then suddenly there's half a cup of water leaking...

Recently I've noticed a BUNCH of mesquite coming up in my 10 acre pasture. There have been some mesquite there in the past, but it was cleaned out years ago. The pasture is pretty healthy - I treat it with 2,4-d twice a year and it's quite thick with a variety of grasses. But this spring, in...

I have 4 miniature herefords (about 500 lbs) on my place. About a week ago, I replaced several "Keep Out" signs that were old and brittle and had been damaged in some high winds. Today I noticed that some of them had corners torn off. They're still new and pliable, and not that easy to damage...

I recently returned to a project I've been working on: converting a 250 gallon propane tank to a pasture roller. The tank is empty, and all the fittings ground off and covered with 1/8" plate. The water fill/drain plug has been installed. The next step is some kind of axle. The most obvious...

We have an aerobic septic system - the kind where the sprinklers pop up and spray the processed effluent for about 20 minutes in the wee hours of the morning. The last section of the septic system has 3 big chlorine tablets which serve the purpose of killing most of the bacteria. I was...

We're having a horrific problem with grasshoppers here in central Texas. This morning I sprayed my pastures with 2 qts/acre of Sevin SL, in bands 15 feet apart. I'm just wondering how long it should be before I notice any results. We've got trillions of them. Down at the cafe the other day...

Say you have some broomweed, still a little young, up to 18"-20" high, not yet forked at the top. 2,4-d will put it down. But I'm wondering how shredding can figure into that. If you go over it with the shredder and cut it down to, say 4-5 inches, and then spray it, will the spray still work...

I'm putting out some B. Dahl seed later this spring. Apparently it's a superfine seed, almost like dust. I think it's something like 900,000 seeds per pound. It doesn't take much either: only 1.5 to 2 pounds per acre. What kind of seed broadcaster would you use for this? The spreaders at TSC...

I was thinking of spraying my central Texas pasture with Grazon, but it's my understanding that it kills the seed bank, and you can't seed anything after Grazon application for at least 4-6 months. I can't wait that long: I need to seed (just broadcast and rolled) as soon as the weeds die down...