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Returning from a recent job away from home, I discovered one of our steers had injured the front of his left hock, leaving a shallow, jagged scrape, nothing serious looking. I've scrubbed it with iodine and sprayed it with an ointment, but noticed that the area around the scrape is "lumpy."...

I've been offered the chance to allow my four-year-old oxen to graze a neighbor's field. Although there's a lot of good grass - and I'd love to save on my feed bill - there's also a fair amount of fiddleneck mixed in. The neighbor maintains that the fiddleneck isn't a problem for the steers...

I've been offered the chance to allow my four-year-old oxen to graze a neighbor's field. Although there's a lot of good grass - and I'd love to save on my feed bill - there's also a fair amount of fiddleneck mixed in. The neighbor maintains that the fiddleneck isn't a problem for the steers. My...

We had our first good frost about 1 - 1 1/2 weeks ago. I have two four-year-old Holstein steers needing to be wormed, and wondered if this is a safe time to apply a pour-on Ivermectin to treat a variety of internal and external parasites. When reading the instructions I was concerned about the...