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Was looking at buying some bred heifers this year and happened to find a large group of gelbvieh crosses that I called on. Talked to the guy and turns out they were half jersey. Said they had been doing some research and this came up as a very good maternal mix and had been selling large...

Was looking at an IH 806 and the PTO started spinning at a pretty good rate after staring the tractor even with lever being shut off on tractor. Guy that owned it tried grabbing it to stop it and it wouldn't. Would that most likely be a n issue with the lever, PTO clutch or somerthing else and...

Bought an old 1-2 ton auger feed wagon with 540pto that I can run behind a tractor to feed dry feed. Would like to set something up so I can also take creep feed out to pastures or feed cows on corn stalks while pulling behind my truck. Have looked at some hydraulic motors and gas run electric...

http://www.kten.com/story/32156093/owner-is-charged-with-manslaughter-after-bull-causes-crash We seem to be making new laws for every bad thing that happens that hold someone at fault and nothing can just be an accident any more. Would like to start charging the DNR for their deer being on...

Had a city person neighbor move in to the west of a pasture we rent a few years ago and started raising sheep. They have let what was a decent 30 acre pasture turn into a solid thistle patch with probably about 30-40% covered completely with no grass and its mostly the part that borders are...

http://www.jefferspet.com/products/pasteurella-vaccine The vaccine I usually use is out of stock was looking around and found this from Colorado Serum. Looks good according to the label but it is quite a bit cheaper than our regular pneumonia vaccine. Which makes me think it might be to good...

We have had a problem with a 90 cow pasture that is a mix of about 55 spring calving cows and 35 fall calvers. In the last week we have had 3 that I know of abort and I would guess probably at least a couple more that I dont know of since it is mostly timber. All the abortions were at about...

Recently had bought a group of replacement heifers and had the vet give them a pelvic exam and 2 of them came back as 5-6 months bred. These heifers are around 13 months old and probably weigh 825. I talked to the breeder I had bought them from and he was very good and said to sell them and...

I got a flyer from Schaff Angus Valley with all their bulls bismark, record harvest, etc. I was surprised that most of the 205 weights were 800-1000 lbs with alot of them 900+ looking at genex they had alot of high weights to for angus. That seemed really high since I have been looking at a...

I recently got a vet flyer from a supply company saying to give a shot of epinephrine to a cow when pulling a calf. Was wondering if anybody had done this seems like it would have to be pretty fast acting cause I don't think I would want to wait.

Wondering if anyone had used a bull out of him? Were buying a few 3/4 gelbvieh sons and haven't really used gelbvieh bulls in the last 15 years. thought the gelbvieh bulls threw nice calves on Angus cows. I do remember we had some problems with some throwing large headed calves at that time...

Was wondering if anyone was having abnormally large amount of problems with these this year. We usually only have 1 of this kind every 3-4 years out of 300+ cows. So far we have had 3 this year the first a heifer that had a small calf in the middle of the night and died. The second was a...

I had heard about some resistance to ivomecton wormers before in other areas but had just recently been told by a vet that it was becoming a problem in our area in Iowa. We had always wormed in the spring at turnout and in the fall when we pull with an ivomection wormer but 2 years ago switched...

This was something that I had seen a few trials on recently and didn't know if anyone else already knew of this and had adjusted how they give vaccines. We have always given an MLV and pneumonia vaccine together or as a combination vaccine (vista Once/ Bovi shield gold one shot). Apparently...

Hi everyone I am looking for some advice regarding changing our cows calving window here in Iowa. I started working my cows in with my dads about a year ago and have been making some changes in how we run them. Currently we calve starting in the end of march and end in late October. The...