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Maturity as in they have an ability to impregnate calves? Some bull calves can breed a cow (i.e, they have live semen) at 6 months, but most certainly nearly all bull calves are capable of impregnating a female by 9 months. A 600 lb. bull calves would have to get lucky on the side of a hill or...

Maybe I am missing something here, but at 400 lbs. why does one care that he won't eat the grain? In CO mountains, I calve in April. I wean my calves in August. Pasture is going and it is getting cold at night. I want them gone before winter (which here is mid-October) Folks buy my calves all...

Oh ketosis smell. Once you smell that you won't forget it. I have had dairy animals for some time and every once in awhile one gets ketosis. The milk also takes on the smell and it will burn your eyes. I doubt this calf has diptheria....he is bright and alert and since he is thin....this...

I wish I could quantify it better. I tried to figure if it was coming with his breath, but I couldn't. I just kept getting a whiff. It was more like a rotten sort of smell.

I buy my mineral from a local feedmill that makes the mineral themselves. It says to provide salt, in addition to the mineral. The mineral doesn't have enough salt in it to satisfy their need for salt so rather than the cattle trying to get their salt from the mineral block, you are to provide...

the cows are bred. i win!

Someone gave my a "dier", he is 450 lbs. and thin. He has a respiratory infection, I assume, and has a putrid smell coming from him. I assume it is his breath. He coughs a little not terrible and has a moderate amount of discharge. Don't ask about temperature, I didn't take it. I dosed him...

The 2 qts 3 times per day would be if she is refusing feed and not getting any intake and continuing to lose fluid through diarrhea. If the diarrhea has decreased and you got the 2 quarts of electrolytes in her and she perked up, HOPEFULLY, she will be hungry for her next meal of milk and you...

With her temp good and her stool firmer and yellow, I would say not to give her an antibiotic at this moment. She is weak, possibly has some acidosis. Electrolytes with bicarb will help correct that. Taking water is good, but what she really needs is milk or electrolytes, not water. At...

I have raised some bottle calves this year, at about a week of age I started offering an extra pint per feeding, and worked up till the calves were getting 2 extra quarts per day (so 3 bottles total) and on one heifer I had her drinking 2 gallons of replacer a day. They grew a little quicker...

What falls out is not like a marble falling out of a sack with a hole. It just drops down past the skin leaving a meaty glob exposed. It then has to be surgically removed.. I can see how one can be left up with a young calf, there is no weight behind it to push itself out so the hole heals it...

This calf will die if her fluid levels are not kept up. She will get acidotic and have all sorts of other problems. First thing you need to get fluids into her.....with an esophagael feeder. You need to use a pre-formulated electrolyte powder you can get at most farm/ranch/feed stores. You...

Thanks, I kinda figured that we would be OK. He is an average size yearling bull. He wasn't fed up just grazed on pasture so he is not huge but he is not small. He probably weighs 1100 right now. My bigger cows are 1500 and there is an obvious height difference but not a major discrepancy...

I put a yearling simmental bull out with my cows and heifers this year. He was born April 2013. I didn't even think twice about it, but my neighbor asked if I was using him and said he'd never get my bigger cows bred. I kinda figured nature has its ways and was not too worried. While doing...

I agree that the bull was not a black angus. Had to be something with some white on it. For 3 years I mated by black gelbvieh bull to my black angus and black baldy cows. This year, I got 3 red calves. Absolutely zero chance of having a visitor, we are an isolated herd of cattle. The...

Post and repost this all over your local craigslist and any facebook pages you may have that relate to livestock. It is amazing the power of social media and people who will take a personal interest to look out for these animals for you. Include a picture of your brand so folks know what to...

If you band a calf with only one testicle in the band, consider yourself lucky if the other one "falls out", it is still attached my a spermatic cord and epididymis and those suckers are thick. I just had a thread on here where an idiot neighbor of mine brought 5 wt steers over here to graze...

Just an update this calf is getting 2 gallons, sometimes 2.5 gallons, per day. No tummy troubles and growing like a weed.

That is a bit large. You probably need to feel it to figure out if there is infection in there or just a bunch of scar tissue.

I don't band, my husband knife cuts everything from young calves to 1200 lbs. I am with you, when you have a testicle in a bucket in front of you, it is a guarantee. That and I just think in the long run it is less discomfort for the calf but that is only a personal belief. Nothing more...