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i'm planning to show a black maximizer/ longhorn cross heifer for 4-H. she is a really dark brown(almost black) color with a white star and a white tail. as far as i know she is polled but she may develop scurs. i just need a really good name for her. my family try to either combine the names of...

so i am new to 4-h this year and i have some projects i would like to do with cattle. i'm going to do the breeding heifer and the market steer. i would also like to show my b. maximizer bull calf but i dont know if i can. my heifer calf was born in september and will wean in february. her mom is...

we didnt brand earlier because my grandfather wanted to wait for my cousins from geogia. turns out that they dont wanna help so we need to brand before the neighbors start stealing our cows again. but it has already snowed here and it's supposed to warm up but not sure. could the brand get...

we recently sold 4, four month old bull calves. one which weighed 650 lbs. he was 1 qtr LH and the rest was black max. the black bull calves brought in more money than he did though. the two yearling heifers wern't meant to be sold. our neighbor stole them and took them to sale and then the...

i am going to be moving down the road about 25 miles to help my grandma. i didnt like the idea at first because i would be away from my cows. i'll still see them on the weekends but i love to be around them all the time. my grandmas house sits on about an acre of land and has a fenced yard. i...

hi. havent been on for a while. glad to be back. when we got our black max bull in '09 he bred the entire herd. our '10 calves came in early june-early august. when they were 2 months each calf developed curly yellow hair in their ears. the following breeding season we turned out our bull as...

My dog penny had a litter of seven on the 15th. dads a boxer/ choc. lab cross. 4 brindles n 3 fawn and whites. :D

a first calf black max heifer had a bull this year and he's pretty nice. low birth weight,good max genetics and he's mostly black. we know who his sire is and we have had him on the property and handled him. but the calf is the herd bulls nephew and his sire is a brother to our previous bull. so...

have decided to use ai on our 11 heifers that we originaly wanted a live limo bull for. the bull we are using for ai is named ross. he's a black limousin bull,he's the best heifer bull that terry has. will try to upload photo if i can.

today when i went out to look at the cows and check for calves,snowflake had a black calf sleeping by her feet. snowflake is a LH/blk max/red angus cross. last year we line bred her her sires brother. when i reached under the calf i felt small udders my first thought was that it was a heifer,but...

we had a longhorn/blk max cross steer in a 5 acre pasture with 3 angus heifers since last august. the heifers were 15 months old and we were getting ready to put them with the bull next month. the only bull(s) we have had on the ranch are homozygous black. the heifers are registered and haven't...

why is it that people say its a deformity when cows have an extra teat? i don't see any thing wrong the cow if shes like that. if the cow is a good cow what does it matter what her teats look like? :???:

in 2010 we kept 5 heifers. those heifers are now 2 and 4 have calved. 2 calfs are heifers, all sired by the same black max bull. one of the heifers is really nice looking and has great genetics. i was wondering if any of you would reccomend keeping any calfs out of fist time heifers? :???:

one of our neighbors down the road told us to start giving our calving cows hay becuase the cows will produce more milk and the calves should grow better. is this true? also which salt block would be best for new mothers?

does anybody have a breed of dog that they grew up with or one that was "the best ever"? mine are labs or a f2 lab/heeler crosss. :D

we are wanting to buy about 3 replacment heifers and i wanted to get a tiger stripe(hereford/brahma),a black angus(preferably sitz upward 307r daughter), and a black baldy. what do you guys think about those breeds?

i'm just wondering why most ranchers stress out when their first calf heifers calve out? we never have any problems with ours.

what do ya'll think of limousins? we are planning to breed our 2 yr old and yearling longhorn and maximizer cross heifers to a black one and i was just wondering what you guys think of that. :D

i was wondering why most ranchers calve from late fall to early spring? i don't see why its so important. you just wait til the calfs about a year to sell right?

my pet cow sarah calved out a beautiful bull calf on the 6th. then on the 12th there was a brand new heifer in the pasture and we couldnt figure out who her mama was. then she got up and ran over to sarah and stared nursing off her! sarah just let her and when sarah and the calves walked away...