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No one told me bulls have weird scrotum teats! Joined up here with no experience at all with cattle and super appreciative of all the help I've received from this forum over the years. I rent a bull every summer and for the first time, noticed these 5-inch long nozzle-like things coming out...

This is a pretty niche question :) Looking at hiring an on-farm processing outfit this next year and didn't know how long is a safe length of time from processing to getting it cooled a big enough fridge. My current fridge space is 2 hours from our farm...is this a deal breaker?

My working pens are pretty lame. Portable panels reinforced with some wooden posts at the alley and an old priefert head gate on some railroad ties. But I've managed to make it work for my few cattle and they are trained to move through it pretty efficiently. But I absolutely can't imagine a...

My much older neighbor has a 20 acre hayfield (south-central oklahoma) that he doesn't want to mess with anymore. Common and improved bermuda. No weeds. He said he just wants it kept up and looking nice, and I can keep whatever I get off it as long as I keep the weeds out. I have zero...

I've had a small herd of 5 red angus for 4 years now so still quite new to this. I process and sell 1-2 a year to friends/family and sell/sale barn the rest. I'd like to add some heterosis to my calves and have the option to buy a reasonably priced Charolais-highland bull from a trusted ranch...

Came across a noble foundation article that seemed to say that an f1 dam+purebred sired calf will outperform a simple f1 calf from purebred dam & sire in terminal calf-specific categories (weaning weight, yearling weight, ADG, etc). Am I understanding this correctly?

I've been mowing through some of my native grass pastures this past month to then stockpile grass for winter. Also knocking back the ragweed and lespedeza (or however you spell it) that is just now starting to flower. However we're into a dry spell/"flash-drought" type period (southern...

4 month old calf has just a bit of thick, goopy white drainage from corner of one eye off and on for a week. No tearing. No actual eye/cornea/conjunctival inflammation. I looked under the lids a bit for some kind of burr. No eye pain or swelling. No nasal discharge. Is it still pinkeye? I...

Got a bottle calf in our suburban back yard...not by choice! He's right at 6 weeks old. He currently eats about 1 lb of mana pro calf feed twice a day, drinks a quart of milk replacer morning and night, grazes on some wheat/oats/clover I luckily covered my garden with over-winter, and eats a...

These guys seem to have a great price for a 90 deg sweep. I just work 5-10 cows/calves so trying not to drop $4K, but I also don't want to waste my money. Anyone use anything from this brand?

Anyone rope 2-4 wk old calves on foot? I don't have a leg catcher, but I'm not horrible w/ a rope. Just need to tag them and I have 2 teenage boys to help. Is this feasible? tips? As an aside, on friday we had an abandoned twin that we brought home about 16 hrs after birth. Fought me like...

I usually rent a bull in the summer for my 5 females, but my options are really limited. So I'm considering buying a registered bull for June-July and re-selling him at the end of the season. Nothing fancy--seems like $2500-$3K price tag could get me something. Any tips for breaking even and...

Got a cow that is well appearing/active/feeds great but has had mild diarrhea for maybe a month now. Other cows are fine, but had one last year with the similar symptoms that didn't breed--ended up culling her after trying some diet/mineral changes. Not sure what the issue is but time to...

Well... deciding to sell my steer calf. Was gonna process him next August but we've been trying to wean him for a month and he is a Houdini when it comes to fences. He somehow crawls under my barbed wire fence and is the only cow I've got that doesn't care about the electric fence in order to...

Working on weaning 3 calves across 2 strands of electric fence that the whole herd has has been well-trained to....up until now. The 2 heifer calves are doing just fine, but the steer calf is somehow managing to crawl under/jump over/run through-I haven't caught him in the act yet. They are...

I'm looking at putting in some small food plots for deer (1 acre-ish) as well as adding some winter cover crops to improve my soil. Last winter, I scraped up long rows with the teeth of my 6 ft box blade and then over-seeded with winter wheat and clover using one of those scatter seeders you...

Bought a scales kit off amazon for $170 and built a wooden platform for it. Good news is it's accurate and crazy cheap compared to traditional scales. Bad news is that it has to be on a flat surface to work. My baseline plan is to pour a 3" thick concrete pad in the alleyway leading up to my...

Anyone know where I can get a cowhide tanned? Suspect I'll have to ship it somewhere. I'm located in North Texas. Thanks for any suggestions!

I'm in south central Oklahoma with native grass/weeds pasture. I'm rotating cows on and off an 8 acre area, trying for optimum grass growth and trampling down brushy weeds. It's slow work but maybe making progress? They've been off for about 5 weeks and grasses are back up to 12"+ and prob...

Just banded my first bull calf at about 4 months old. He’s 5 days out, vaccinated, acting normal, and sack is dusky/dark and smaller already. Is there a timeframe where they are most likely to have problems with infection?