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I sat last night and watched this man's webinar, You would have believed he reinvented the wheel. When it was finished I felt like he was trying to get his audience to cover his lost income while he screwed off doing internships around the world. He doesn't have anything that isn't available at...

Pregnacy checked a group of 14 heifers that I synched with a single shop of Lutalyse. I had them in a lot next to the house to observe for heats and bred 5 prior to the timed AI time. At 55 days checked with a pregscan ultrasound and 13 were pregnant.I did put in a cleanup bull 14 days later and...

Went to check on the cows tonight and found a 17 month old heifer laying off by herself. I went to get her up, she was reluctant but finally got up and went to the barn. She was slightly humped back and was holding her tail up. She had no discharge but wanted to lay back down. After being...

I am thinking about purchasing some embryos and having them implanted into my cows. The cost on the embryos would be between $400 - $500. I have no idea what to expect the cost to be for the implantation, does anyone have an idea?

I had been thinking about getting an ultrasound for several years but couldn't pull the trigger and just buy one. My wife and son bought the Pregscan for my Christmas gift and I have used it on about 15 head so far. I pretty much AI everything except I had a bull run with 7 cows for a short...

How in the world are you cattlemen able to cope with calving and newborns in the South with so much water?

Most of the time we complain about neighbors. This morning got a call from a neighbor that spotted a heifer calving by the road. We were planning on getting her up today as she had no udder but was due. We pulled the calf in the field and she would have nothing to do with it. The tongue and head...

Currently WOTUS has been upheld in the courts. I have a full time job away from the farm and run about 45 cows on a 130 acre farm loaded with sinkholes. I have only been told bits and pieces of how it could affect me. Does anyone know for sure how it will affect you?

After all the shootings during the Obama administration and the promotion of gun free zones I have been doing some thinking. I have deduced that a lot of problems could be solved by making all centers of government, lawyer's offices, banks, and maybe of few other places that dispense misery on...

I was wanting to know if anyone on the forum owns their own ultrasound machine for pregnancy checking. If so what kind and what are the pros and cons of owning your own.

Planning on going to the Ky. Beef Expo tomorrow if everything goes well. I haven"t been to it before but since its only 35 mile away and we just had 2 inches of rain topped with 8 inches of snow can't do much around the house. Work is slow because nobody can get any of the projects going. Son is...

Our local Kubota dealer had their open house this Friday and Saturday and unveiled the Kubota hay equipment line. The disc mower sure looks a lot like the Vicon mower of old. Has there been another takeover or buyout of the old Vicon company?

Lost one early yesterday morning. A heifer had it out in the pasture and it died before she dried it off. It should be warner this time of year but it seems about the time we have figured out a good calving date we have two weeks of this kind of weather. I am thinking about building a calving...

I was in our Rural King farm supply store this past weekend and saw 16000 twine at 52.49 a bale for a pallet they had just brought in. Is twine going up this year? I bought mine last year from my AGCO dealer for 42 and change at the start of the season. I was just wondering if I missed something.

I had a patch that was about 3 1/2 acres that was planted in both directions to orchardgrass last fall and have an excellent stand. I am wanting to increase my weaning weights and thought that planting red clover wouldn't be a bad idea. I know from when I used to milk you needed legumes to make...

I have an older H&S V-10 rake and it is getting older but still in overall good shape. Last year an arm broke and it took a week for the part to come in. Thought about this rake as a backup but no nothing about this style of rake http://bloomington.craigslist.org/grd/4892500746.html . My...

Two years ago my son and I bought a cattle working system (pen, sweep, alley way, access gates) from Chubby Baird in Middleburg Kentucky for a little less than $4,000.00. It sat on pallets till last August just prior to my son leaving for college. He spent several days making a limestone pad and...

I went out on a limb yesterday and purchased a stunted 13 month Fullblood Gelbvieh heifer. She was born December 16'th 2013 her dam died 7 weeks later. The calf survived running with the heard possibly nursing on the other cows when she could. We had a cold winter and a late spring so she...

With the recent posts about the high cost of replacement heifers I believe we should all look at our operations and look for areas of improvement. In my operation I will be looking at reducing my number of days open, I know this one is difficult since I am 100% AI and my electrical contracting...

We had our last calves of the year today. We were able to calve 24 healthy calves since out last loss last December. We had one that we had to pull and the cow prolapsed her uterus but after putting it back in we were able to breed her on our second attempt. I feel that we were very blessed...