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Our pond is spring fed so had distinct cold spots. As soon as the weather warms the cows are in cold spots several times a day to drink and cool off. Calves go in early but stay pretty shallow. Never get ice down here so ice walking is not an issue. With our rains the drainage ditches are...

Yup, we survived the hurricanes--lost the barn roof and some fine old trees and of course power and sanity for a while. This year's fare seems to be about 9" of rain in the past week on sandy soil that hadn't dampened enough for it to soak in and now the skeeters are hatching out the size of...

Congrats on getting the calf to take the bottle! If he/she is nursing as well that is a super bonus. I keep goats but have a guy running cows on my main pasture (I have the land, he has the headaches :D ) and I watch out for his calves. There was one that wasn't nursing and I couldn't reach...

Since I couldn't get close enough to see the backside of our calfs I thought we had a couple of little bulls until I saw them pee, which usually comes shortly after nursing. When the stream was obviously coming from the back rather than under I realized we had heifers. Real scientific and...

In Florida we are only allowed to use triploid grass carp so that reproduction to muscle out native fish is not a problem. They are provided at no charge by the water hyacinth control folks to ponds that meet criteria of being able to contain the fish and keep them out of other waterways. One...

We have a guy running his cows on our field who seems to know about as little as I do about cows. We have had two calvings this spring and are expecting a third imminently. What is described sounds to me like the afterbirth that hung out of one of the cows for about 4 days after she gave...