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Well, the nice thing about selling a bull to the neighbor is that you can always borrow him every once in a while LOL. I'm sure you made the right choice for you. I would have had a hard time cuttin' that fella loose.

This land sounds ideal for mob grazing to me. You get plenty of rain, very little snow, and not too many days below freezing. Nothing will increase the carrying capacity of the land, the health of the land, and lower your costs for medications like mob grazing will. When I hear about people...

This would be my plan of action. 1. Cut all the trees and leave the stumps high enough to get a chain around. This will help with removal later, and really what difference does it make if you have a six inch stump or an 18" stump. 2. Clean all of the pine needles and twigs and crap off the...

+1 on that. I'll bet that if you could get a picture of him on level ground with all four boots under his corners he would look like something out of a catalog.

I agree with everything said here. You have to look at your seasons too. You're far enough north that you're going to get a real winter. If you get a little rain in the late summer/early fall you are going to get a lot more grazing out of that fescue than you will out of the bermuda grass. Its...

All my calves are on the ground by my mom's birthday (April 16th). If we have any heifers born on the 16th they're always named Evelyn LOL. She's been waiting for a grand daughter named Evelyn, but me and my brother aren't too keen on that LOL. That was kind of useless information, but that just...

EPDs are really only an effective tool, in my opinion, after the bull has sired a decent number of progeny. This gives you an idea of the accuracy of the information. This is something that is good if you are going to use the bull for AI programs or stuff like that. If you're buying a bull from...

I pick the calf up and get on the scale myself. Then I just subtract my weight from the weight of me holding the calf and you get the weight of the calf.

I want to share this with all of you, because some people don't understand how genetics work on a basic level. Inbreeding, in and of itself, has no ill effect on cattle. Your cattle have a pool of genes. These are all the traits that are floating around inside the DNA. Some are dominant, some...

1. Your stocking rate is going to vary depending on the amount of grass you have on the ground, but once you get everything going and it sounds like you can irrigate if things get dry, you should be able to stock at least 100,000 pounds per acre if you're going to move them every day. Having...

If you want them to smash the weeds down better you should make your paddocks longer and narrower. The skinnier (less square) you make them, the more of your green that you get trampled onto the ground. Also, if you can move them a few times a day, you can pack them in tighter and they will...

I breed all my cows to calve in early spring. If some miss then I breed them to calve in the fall. I sell these animals as cow/calf pairs all the time. I just don't like animals that don't get bred to calve in the spring. So, if you buy a cow/calf from me with a fall calf its because she missed...

I think that in the early 90s when they started blowing the frames up on them they started getting lanky. Give me a bull like Enforcer 107H or one of the old school polled herefords and I will show you a beef machine. I believe that in an effort to make the frame bigger they destroyed the...

That is the reason why I moved away from Herefords. My family had them for years and my uncle swears by them, but I see rear ends like that on way too many hereford calves. Here is a picture of the last Hereford bull that I owned. My guess is that he was about 2200 pounds. He had a lot of...

This may come as a shock to you, but cows aren't supposed to eat browse. They are built to eat grass. That's pretty much it. In fact, they aren't even really built to eat grain. Its pretty much just grass. That's how nature intended it, and that is how I do things at my place. If you want to...

There are a lot of things to consider before you just go throwing goats on your land. It sounds to me like this land is not yet fenced. Some of it is probably pretty hard to fence because of all of the undergrowth and garbage. If you've never tried to keep goats on one side of a fence this is...

I would have eaten it. LOL. Would've been a veal calf I think. I would have culled her momma from the herd though. I may even swap bulls. That is something that you don't need in your operation.

He's a nice looking bull...a good example of the breed. I prefer animals with a little more muscling in that rear and I prefer a more bully looking bull, but I'm a little old fashioned like that. Old time logic tells me that if he looks more bully that he must have more testosterone. I have no...

I only graze. My animals never eat grain and they rarely eat hay if I can help it. So my criteria is probably a little different than yours. I pick animals with small frames, short legs, low birthweight, good growth, and believe it or not I prefer a lower milk producing female. I look at my...

I watched two of my boerboels literally gut somebody's bird dog that was messin' with my chicken coop one night. By the time I realized what was happening it was too late. They had that dog deader than Kelsey's nuts in what seemed like less than 30 seconds. You might not call that a fight, but...