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Long time without posting, but still been lurking around. Had a question for the board to see if anyone has any experience with this. We have a small commercial herd, calve out 20-30 cows a year. Utilize AI in a pretty big way and every calf produced in the last three years has either become a...

I mentioned in another thread a couple months ago that we were sending a bunch of our calves through a retained ownership program that is run by Extension in Alabama, and so I wanted to start a new thread to keep everyone updated on how it goes. We sent 2 calves on the first load that went out...

Well it's time to think about buying semen again, and again I keep coming back to this bull. I didn't try him last year hoping that someone else would and tell me how it went! I know Lucky_P is somewhat on his bandwagon for the same reasons I am (Gardens Wave MGS, Carcass, and a positive $EN...

Well weaning day came about a month early this year. Where our farm is located is in the heart of the drought area in Northeast Alabama. Fortunately we have had several very timely rains over the last few weeks, but our pastures are still pretty far behind, so we decided to pull the calves off...

I guess it's never too early to think about next breeding season. I ran across this bull today and i remember looking at him in the past. For me I can't find many faults other than low accuracy. I am looking for a bull to produce small to moderate framed easy fleshing females that will breed...

The bull I bought in 2014 came home from a neighbors place with screw claw on both back feet, so we went bull shopping. Obviously not the neighbors fault. He kept him in good shape and he brought a good price at the barn today. So here is the new guy: https://www.angus.org/Animal/EpdPedDtl...

We had a calf born yesterday with a pretty major skull/head deformity. The calf was born alive, but exhibited extremely limited/impaired mental capacity. Could not stand. Made no effort to right itself. Wildly kicked its legs. It looks a lot like a Neuropathic Hydrocephalus (NH) calf to me (or...

Just wanted to share a video from Extension in Alabama. Pretty cool what you can do with fescue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRpVu1dnUOM

Anyone have any experience with or opinions of daughters of the angus bull RITO 6EM3 OF 4L1 EMBLAZON? He checks all of the boxes for me from what I can find, but I'm looking for some first hand experiences with him. TIA http://abs-bs.absglobal.com/beef/angus. ... o=29AN1827

Today was weaning day at our farm and this year we borrowed a set of scales from a local Extension office to weigh the cows and calves. The data was neat to see. Some cows were bigger than we thought, some smaller. Calf weights were good. The problem is a cow that I was determined to cull was...

I've been looking ahead a bit to next year's breeding season. I took the jump and started tinkering with A.I. this year and had enough success that I want to keep trying. My goal is to use A.I. on the females I want to keep replacement heifers out of and clean up with a terminal bull. My...

Thinking about cutting our fescue in the morning. Our hay is always too mature and TDN was in the tank on last years fescue. The grass is at the right stage of maturity but I am just not sure about the weather. We are forecasted 7 days of dry weather. Didn't rain today. Highs in the 75-82...

Spent some time at our farm this weekend and took some pictures. We are done feeding hay finally. Using some new grazing management we cut our hay consumption back to less than 2 large round bales per cow-calf pair from 3-4 in years past. With a bit more work we think we can get that down even...

I AI'ed 4 heifers three weeks ago. When I picked up the semen, my AI rep told me the bull was Connealy True Answer 892. He wasn't the bull I wanted, but he was good enough to breed 4 heifers... The day we bred it was raining and just all-around nasty so I didn't double check the empty straws as...

I set my heifers up on the 7 day Co-Synch protocol and bred them this afternoon. We started breeding at 53 hours after pulling CIDRs and finished by 54 hours. It was a really wet, nasty day here in Alabama, but we did see a little bit of riding and heat activity around the time we bred. Our bull...

Bought a new bull over the weekend. He's a homozygous black and polled Simangus (50% Sim 50% Angus) born in Sept. 2013, so 15 months old. I like his EPDs for my use, but I want to know what everyone thinks about how he is built. I always enjoy learning from how you guys evaluate a bull...

We are getting ready to sell our herd bull and I was taking some pictures to make an ad to put on facebook, etc. Just wanted to get some opinions on the pics to see if there are any glaring flaws that I am not seeing. Here is a link to his EPDs also. Bull 17-18 month old daughters...

We took our steers from this year to the preconditioned sale at Athens Stockyard in Athens, TN tonight. That was one of the best sales I have been to. Great people, started on time, and ran really smooth. Doesn't hurt that our cattle sold well. 5 steers ave. 740 lbs @ $153.00/cwt and 2 steers...

We weaned all of our calves on labor day and I finally had time to take a few pictures to share. Also would like to hear what you think about the calves pictured. These were taken with my phone so you'll have to excuse the poor quality. Right after being separated from mom, almost everybody is...

Just wanted to show off a heifer we raised that I think is earning her way. She is the only heifer we kept in her group and we bought 5 to go with her. Below is a picture of her and her bull calf at side. The picture isn't much since I took it with my phone. Her calf was born in December and she...