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Hello all, I need some advice please. Had a calf 5 days ago seen the baby nurse at first then it was always sleeping. Mother talks to it grooms it but I still don't see it nurse. Mother's bag is full but not in gorged and the. Baby poped yesterday and I found more poop today. I watched it all...

Hi we were giving three 50 lbs bags of mustard someone got at a farm auction. We have beef cattle and can`t find anywhere that says they will eat it. I think it might be in the cabbage family not sure. has anyone ever planted it or feed it to beef cows thanks

We make square bales but always buy some round bales of a native mix of grasses .OK can I feed them a round bale of straight alfalfa ,clover mix? Its high in protein but will I have to watch out for bloat?

my 4 year old bull is limping . tryed to get him in the head gate to see if there is something in his hoof but ,BUT his neck is so big that we could not lock the head gate on him. he is a black angus and it is mating season most of my cows are coming or have just been in heat. do bullS go in a...

Put out a few bales and the cows were enjoying them I saw something orange in the hay. I couldn`t beleive it my orange sweater. was wondering were it went to.surprized it got through the baler.

when you band and give a tenitis shot is the shot giving in the neck like other shots ? week old calf

Have a cow that took on a ophan calf plus her own ,calfs are now three months. she had cancer eye and has had it removed healing very nice. should I wean the calfs early like now to give the mother time to rest before rebreeding her in july? the calfs also are on calf feed once a day and are...

We had a cow form a growth on her third eye lid. nasty would bleed and puss running down her face. like always two different vet did not return my calls .unless the cow is down they don`t have the time. well called a new vet a young man i think not long out of collage. came out right away. said...

Is there a trick to transplanting grape vines. I have tried several times with no luck. when the vines touch the ground they dig in and set roots , but are still atached to the main vine. should I cut them and dig up the roots and use root enzine?

we have a 8 year old herford momma cow that has a 11 day old baby both seemed to be doing good ,noticed that she didn`t have a big bag like other years but baby doing good. she went off feed I think on Friday. tried to get her in the barn and she went down on us only a few feet from barn,Weak...

first all black, black baldie for us . this herford cow has giving us two others bred to a black angus all black and white. this is our 14th black baldie, do you think the other cows will start having all black calfs?

want to worm the cattle, Is Ivomec pour on safe to use on bred cows and calfs as young as 3 months?

OK this is our second time in three years that a heifer came to the barn with a face full of quills. she had about 30 in her chin good quick pulls got them out ok but she sure didn`t like it. never seen a porcupine on our place,sure hope he moves on.

one of our herford cows we noticed today has one back quarter teat and little back teat are red or brownish. that side of her bag is alot smaller than the other side. very lopsided she is bred but not expecting to calf for 4 weeks yet. she has passed some mucus a week ago three big plops...

Our bull is 3 years now got him at 8 months old. Reg Black Angus.Even when he was a little guy he would rub his head and face on the ground. We thought he was doing it to keep the flys away.but he does it all times of year.Not constantly I notice it a couple times a month.Last week his whole...

We have been raising cattle for only five years and learn something new all the time. love this fourm . We have this three 1/2 year old black angus cow she weighs about 1200lbs. we found sucking on other cows while they are nursing there babies. She had a calf last year but did not calf...

Now that the summer is winding down I have collected flower seeds from my plants and that of friends. what is the best time to start them :?: Not sure if I should sow them now or start indoors and winter them over inside.

Hi All, we are still new to all this. my question is how do I hang hold on to a calf that needs meds or to tag? we have a head gate for the large cows. theres got to be a way to do this without getting kicked it the ribs. Any ideas would be a great help

Is anyone else have troubles with tent catapillars? We have them bad. I have been spraying apple trees and my current bushes have been striped clean of all leaves.Will the berries still ripen.I am not sure I want to spray my garden ,flowers OK but vegs? So I sprayed the ground all the way...

cutting down trees in a old pasture or hay feild to have more pasture for the cows. It has a lot of moss in it.Does anyone know how to get rid of the moss. impossible to plow up because of stumps .