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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...

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...

Raising a holstein/dutch galloway mix. She is 5 weeks old and has access to good grass but I am not feeding her any starter. Cost isn't a concern.....how much milk should she be getting? She gets 6 pints per day. All bags give directions for calf that are started on starter at day 3. She...

A neighbor brought 2 steers over to graze with my cattle while they fix their pasture. They are about 500 lbs. and were banded when they were young. One calf looked particularly bullish and the other looked like he still had something in between his legs. I checked and sure enough they both...

I got a dairy calf from a dairy farm yesterday. I was super impressed with this place it was very clean and meticulous and they do right by the newborns becasue they have a contracted buyer for all of them. They get fed colostrum 3 times in 24 hours and they dip the navels and all that good...

I have 3 bottle calves, 1 2 weeks old, 1 3 weeks old, and 1 10 days old. They have had PERSISTENT scours for over a week. I mean just shooting yellow water. I have had scours problems before but never like this. I just can't keep them ahead, hydration wise. One of them has mild temperature...

I have a beef cow that seems to have mastitis. She calved on Thursday. She has general malaise and walks like her udder might hurt and kicks at it every once in awhile. She allows the calf to nurse all 4 quarters but one quarter looks larger and harder than the others and she just lays down...

I have a December 2012 heifer that seems to have some pussy discharge from her vulva. It is not entirely opaque but looks like snot with yellowish tinge. She has not been exposed to a bull. She is pastured with 3 steer calves who are 8 months old and 3 other heifers. I realize the steers...

I have a 6 year old cow that first presented with an acute jaw lump this summer. I thought it was just soft tissue. It had a drainage that stank to high heaven. Drained it and gave her some antibiotics but within a week the lump was 3 time the size. My vet came out and tried to localize the...

I acquired a corriente cow and her calf. The cow bred back and appears to be about 4 months along by palpation. The calf was born last April and is 275 lbs. The cow is probably 5 years old. She is a tiny thing, probably 350 lbs. Without going into the debate of why I would bother, it would...

I had kind of a strange deal this past year. I had a red baldy cow I bought. She is younger (5 maybe?) and I have no idea if she had a calf before. But she was bred when I bought her. The cow never bagged up but I watched her rear end real close and I was able to watch her calve. It halfway...

3 week old calf orphaned. He WILL NOT take a bottle. Full 24 hours from nursing he just threw me around like a rag doll. Another 12 hours and same results. Giving him fresh milk in the bottle, not formula. I have a young dairy heifer who is a first freshener with a month old calf that is in...

I have a dairy heifer that had her calf about 3 weeks ago. She is nursing the calf and I am milking about 1/2 gallon of milk from her daily for my personal use. She has that nasty sweet acetone like breath and her milk also has the smell. I assume this is a symptom of ketosis, but she has no...

2 year old first calf heifer is pretty lame on the front. I assume she has hoof rot, as I had another case of it earlier this year and she holds the weight off of her foot and her toes are pretty spread. There are no indications of any other issues (swelling, etc) What can I treat her with...

I had my cows separated into 2 groups for awhile....about a month. These cows have lived together for years but some of the mommas were still nursing heifer calves and until I got them moved out I had to keep them separate from the bull since the big heifer calves should have been getting close...

Ok, so lets start the story. Friday afternoon I notice one of my first calf heifers, a nice big charolais, appears to be in early labor. I move her out of the nasty pen she is in with the others expectants to a nice clean sand trap and wait. She had the calf around 12:30 AM Saturday. I had...

I run my cattle on 240 acres or hard access terrain. I bought some cows at the sale barn in October one said 5 months the other said 6. The one that had the big 5 on her hip calved I am guessing overnight Wednesday night when her "due date" according to the preg check at the sale barn would...

One of my heifers who would have been a first calver aborted her calf yesterday. She would have been about 4 months along. A week or 10 days ago when it was VERY cold, the cattle stripped the bottom branches of some very dense ponderosa pine trees (despite the fact they were getting adequate...

CAn anyone give me some pros and cons to raising up jersey steers as freezer beef? How much beef do you get in comparison to a traditional beef breed? At what age do you slaughter for maximum quality? And most importantly, what are the actual flavor/texture differences between a jersey and...

Is this normal? This is the first year I have bought 300 weight calves. I bought 4 heifers and one steer. 2 of the heifers I fed on a bottle. While they rarely have any notable snot, they cough. Sometimes their appetites are so-so. Sometimes they run fevers. Did I mention they cough? I...