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    Landowner problems when leasing

    I am not a beginner, but My landowners around my area seen to not have any common courtesy toward the land I lease to cut hay on. I lease about 200 acres in 2 plots from 2 diffeent landowners. Due to the land here selling for over $7k per acre I cannot afford to buy more land. I am getting...
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    Safeguard Cubes Taste Bad??

    Since I have too many catttle and too little help, I try to get mine wormed with Safeguard cubes. Last time I used them I poured waffle syrup over the cubes in the feeders to get them to eat them all. It worked. Within a day they were gone. With the drought, my beardless triticale is not...
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    Pennicillin availability?

    Has anyone bought any Pennicillin lately. My vet told me last week they cannot get any because they don't orderbig enough quantities. The local coop said they have not had any for over a year. I found one bottle at Tractor Supply. All the vet supplys I have bought from say it is not...
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    Constant Velocity PTO shafts

    Anyone have an easy way to hooku up one of those CV shafts to the tractor? My old NH baler had jus t your s tandard PTO universal joint. My new Vermeer has that big joint with the safety cover that is as big as the front tire, and weighs as much as the back one. Sometimes I can tie a rope to...
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    thick placenta suffocating newborns

    Found a dead newborn this morning. Still wet and Mama had tried for a while I could tell. I was watching one have a calf the other evening. She did not have any trouble, and she was one of my older cows, one of the original herd 10 years ago. I watched and when she went to the calf's butt to...
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    Hay baling fun

    Long story. My 648 New Holland round baler baled 47 bales and about Noon, the knife would not cut wrap. Baled another 3 bales after installing new roll of wrap. Climbed up on top of baler each time to try to get knife to cut. Called my buddy at Chickasha who is a baler expert. He had not...
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    Just bad luck

    In October the Halloween ice storm froze the rain cap up on my D6d and water went down the exhaust and froze the turbo and split the housing. Water alsowent in the transmission due to the trans cooler failing. oil in radiator also. A week earlier my Cat E110 trackhoe caught fire from a rat...
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    Cow attacks another cow in labor

    This is a new one to me. Had cattle for over 55 years. I have a herd of about 60+ Angus and Angus/Longhorn cross cows & calves. This afternoon I had a 6 yr old Angus cow away from the herd in labor. The calf's hoofs were showing. About 20 head started toward her and 2 Angus cows of the same...
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    Angus longhorn cross

    I got a longhorn bull 2 years ago. 2 yrs old, great disposition, and also a good protector of the herd. Had 10 first calf heifers and no calving problems. Had 20 live calves from 20 cows. Problem was when sale time came, we took a $200/head discount due to the longhorn. Despite all the hype...
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    Dead heifer after uterine infection

    7 month old 500 lb black angus heifer was terated for urinary infection and trauma to back or hind legs. Treated with Draxxin and Pennicillin for 2 weeks and kept in pen with mother for 6 weeks. Had another full size cow came up lame in left hind leg possibly back injury. So left the 3...
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    Tractor supply squeeze chute

    Bought a TSC headgate a year ago to install on old WW squeeze chute. I had a cow lose a calf and had to graft another one on her quick, so traded the headgate in to the TSC store for a complete squeeze chute. After running my 20 head herd through this chute for 4 or 5 times, this has to be...
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