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One quick question for all you experts in cattleland ? We were wondering if this 700 lb bull we bought originally for slaughter.. if we left him a bull instead of cutting him would it change the taste or quality of the meat ???? we are going to hold him until he reaches a 1000 lb.

My question is does this cross do well all around for calving and generally I was wondering about body size etc. We are going to a ranch tomorrow to look and the reason is we are trying to get rid of a few bad apples from the herd and came across these today.. So if anyone out there in cattle...

Does anyone have any good advice on cutting your calves..Proper way to do it etc. We need to do it before the weather starts getting warm... Thanks for your help

Hey everyone thanks for the info. Now my next question is we have penned them and we have been feeding them like i said almost 50lbs of wet cob{ for all three steers of coarse) per day and plus free feed alfalfa. Is it to much protein for the purpose of butchering...the cost seems to great if we...

I see there is a question about marbling already but it doesnt answer mine so if anyone knows which I am sure that with all of the smart people on this website that someone can answer me..anyways is it best to fatten a steer for the slaughter house for 30 days or is it true you will get the best...

Ok I have been reading about PI..Heres a dumb question for ya..What is it?????????? :?:

I have been reading everyones situations with calves being born dead and I'm sure I'm probably asking a repeat question but we also found a calf today that may have been there all weekend but we really are not sure yet what cow it was..We have an idea but it was getting dark and couldn't locate...

Can anyone tell me what is the time frame for a cow to start cycling again after she gives birth..I have heard its best to wait for 45 days just to make sure she is cleaned out and back on the road to recovery. My question is more so how soon does she actually cycle or can it be changed by...

Some one just told me that we could fatten up our cow if we were to feed them oil and vinegar with their feed and I personally can't see the connection but I would definately like someone elses opinion..We are fattening up a heifer to butcher and she weighs about 700-800 lbs but we were...

Has anyone out there ever had a cow develop large lumpy looking knots all over there body ? We recently had to giver her tetracyline for what we thought was lumpy jaw but as we soon realized the wounds looked that of a bullet wound with a smaller opening and then a larger one...we really still...

Does anyone know why our heifer would have a bloody nose ? It was just noticed today...I'm sure it just started because we seen her yesterday and she was fine...Please let me know if you all have any ideas ?

I'm going to come to this board before i do any other research because you all are so smart :cboy: Anyways, we have this heifer who has a very large lumpy thing under her chin with a hole like area..my mother n law says its lockjaw and it has already passed through or something like that but...

I recently read on a website there was a kit that cost $125 and you could test 25 cows for pregnacy..but, it didn't give you a way to buy it. It was some Dr. or something from a university but I really wanted to know if there is a kit available to us average jo's ???? Would really appreciate it...

This is a silly question but I was wondering if there is an age to when a bull actually is doing what he's supposed to be doing? I watched this old dairy cow{female} mounting another {Female} as the bull stood by and watched..It was a little weird but I didn't have time to stand by and see if...

We took over my mother n laws cow herd because she cant really care for them anymore..We know they have all been together since Aug. or September and just roaming at will with the bull but we were not sure how to tell if she is pregnant because she was already big from her other baby she came...