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any suggestions on a heat tolerant, maternal type hereford sire with sexed heifer semen available? horned or polled.

For those with experience with Fleckviehs, is there a difference in heat tolerance in the South African types versus the European types?

Anybody got any tricks to fishing a straw of semen out of the bottom of the nitrogen tank, or just kiss it goodbye?

Anybody used Macho Man U849? What are his calves like especially on angus cows?

We've had at least 3 or 4 calves (out of about 100) develop swollen udders or swollen teats. We've seen it on steers and heifers. Calves are 4 and 5 weights and are still on cows. Any ideas what may be causing this? Some type of bacterial infection?

We pulled cidrs and gave lut shots on saturday to 12 heifers, some of which had been cycling, some maybe not. None have stood yet and no stickers have been rubbed. It got cold here the last few nights, down in the teens. Has anybody had any experience with cold weather affecting synchronization?

For those who cut their calves, how many of you pull the nut straight out and how many of you cut the first layer of "membrane" from around the nut. I hope this makes sense. We have always sliced the "membrane" and then pulled the nut out but I've seen it done by just pulling the nut straight...

How does he do on heifers? Any problems? I've got a few straws of him and have two 3/4 sisters out of 2878 that I'm thinking about using him on but one of them is a heifer? Thoughts...

What's a good white faced homo black simmental bull to breed to angus type cows? Mostly for feeder calves but maybe some replacements?

I was just wondering how hard it is to learn to transfer embryos. I know the basics of how everything works but was just curious how difficult it is. I've been AI'ing part of our herd for about five years but wanted to know how far of a leap is it from AI'ing your stuff to transferring frozen...

will a brown swiss bred to a hereford throw a brindle calf?

I bred two heifers for one of my buddies this afternoon. The first heifer was actually seen standing, and I bred her no problem. The other heifer had her estrus sticker wore about 2/3 off but he never actually saw her standing. On this second heifer, who may or may not have been in heat, I...

We had a solid white, pink skinned commercial char cow bred to an angus bull throw a smokey calf with a white face and pink nose. The cow is old and might be out of a herf/char cross cow (too far back to remember her dam for sure). Cow is out of reg. char bull and calf is out of reg. angus...

For those of you with experience, what color does the skin grow back on a black hided cow after being freeze branded?

What is a common storage device for liquid nitrogen when it is being used to brand? I've heard of using old semen tanks but I dont see how you could get an iron down inside of them. Is there a special container for holding liquid nitrogen when branding? What do some of you use and how long...

With all the recent talk about poultry litter, I was wondering how many of you have cows and chickens. Around here, a lot of people have chicken houses as well as cattle. We have two broiler breeder pullet houses.

What is involved with putting the embryo into the recip. cow? Do the embryo's come in straws like semen? Do you use an AI gun or something else?

I've got a poster of North American Beef Breeds that my mother got for my dad prob. 12 years ago. I sort of stole it because I really liked it but its old and torn a little. Anyway, I was wondering if anybody knew of a place to get something like this. It has 42 breeds on it and all of them...

I've been looking online at different places that sell isopropyl and ethyl alcohol and I was wondering what type of alcohol some of you use when freeze branding and what a decent price was also, how long do you re-use the alcohol and how much do you use when branding?

When youre branding with dry ice, what kind of ratio do you use when mixing the ice and the alcohol? And, around how many pounds of ice do you need to do, say, ten head?