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    Spreading Manure (Timing)

    Looking to clean up after winter feeding. Normally wait until fall, but with a late spring thinking of trying move it out manure yet this spring. Anyone have any experience/issues with the timing of applying manure on bean ground this close to planting?
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    Red Dirt Music

    Anybody a follower/fan of Red Dirt Music? Our local fair is considering a combo of Chris Knight/ Jason Boland and the Sragglers / Turnpike Troubadors????? Would any of you you are fans have any comments on these guys?
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    Boomless Sprayer

    We are looking at some pull behind 300 gallon sprayers. Is anyone familiar with or had experience with the Heavybilt brand of spayers?? Or how about the pasture blaster form Ag -Spray??
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    Calf Scours

    Anyone been experiencing calf scouring this season yet?? We lost two over the weekend. Our vet has been seeing a lot of scouring issues in our area and contributes it to the unusual warm days and cool nights we had the last ten days or so. I was thinking the warmer weather would have provided...
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    Critique Time

    Great looking calf Hoss.....from my perspective not sure how you can do any better than that. I have to admit that I am biased though. We have been AI'ing using Goodnight 715T for several years now....breeding for replacements mainly with him. We have been very pleased. Again great job on...
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    At what weight do you sell your calves?

    On our farm our goal is to move them at 10 months and 700 lbs +/-.
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    Due Date Question

    Thank for your replies and comments.....the final two cows calved out on 2/18 and 2/20. We are AI breeding for replacements and caught a break this time....six heifers and three bulls.....Thanks again...
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    Due Date Question

    New to the AI process and I have this scenario.....we AI'd 10 head on May 10th and then turned the bull out on May 20th.....so our projected due date was Feb 16th....I witnessed 1 bull bred on June 7th so all along was thinking we may have beat the odds and had 9 AI bred.....to date we have had...
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    Balancer Heifers

    Like a lot of people these days.....we have working on trying to improve the quality of our replacement heifers. We really like the Gelbveigh/Angus cross cattle. We then use straight angus bulls on the Balancer cows. We have settled in on Goodnight 715T as our base AI sire. We have been using...
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    Balancer Heifers

    Like a lot of people these days.....we have working on trying to improve the quality of our replacement heifers. We really like the Gelbveigh/Angus cross cattle. We then use straight angus bulls on the Balancer cows. We have settled in on Goodnight 715T as our base AI sire. We have been...
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    Wet hay

    Since you have them laid out in in single layer have you considered getting some rock salt? You and throw some salt over the bales and it will help draw the moisture out. Not ideal but it helps.
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    Show Heifers

    Thanks for your input......
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    Show Heifers

    Question?....We have some nice yearling heifers that my neices would like to show this summer. They are halter broke at this point for the most part. They will be AI bred May 10th. They need to keep working with them to get ready for August shows. How long would you wait after AI and 1st...
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    Bovi-Sheild Gold Products

    OK....Thanks for the information......no reason to chance......
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    Bovi-Sheild Gold Products

    yes....fall calving....
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    Bovi-Sheild Gold Products

    I have a group of younger cows that we have vacinated using the Bovi-Shield GOLD FP protocol with annual boosters....I also have an older group that have not gone through this program and have just been vaccinated with lepto and pinkeye.....will the new Bovi-Shield Gold FP5 VL5 (5 way) be...
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    Did I make a bad buy?

    pure breds....but heifers not registered.....800 yearlings +/-.....sire epd.... 17 ce, -3.0 bw, 40 m, 13 ced......a little light but I think they should fit in with the rest of our group here shortly......I'm new here but I will try to figure the picture download thing out....
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    Did I make a bad buy?

    yes...each......
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    Did I make a bad buy?

    I think you did just fine.....earlier this month we bought 3 gelbveigh 14 month old heifers for $1525.....
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    Balancer Bull for replacement heifers

    Thanks to everyone for your comments. New to this board and your input is valuable. The ultimate plan would be to use these heifers/cows with a terminal angus sire in a commercial program. So we are really trying to stay on the maternal side of the EPD spectrum and thought these two bulls...
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