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For once it wasn't overcast for this lunar event, however, I'd forgotten about it. I walked the dogs before beginning feeding chores, and was surprised to see the moon half full when it had been full just a couple of days before. About 20 minutes later when I was putting hay in hay racks and I...

I have what you're looking for, but I'm in Florida. I retired my Jersey last year and haven't been able to sell my milking equipment. But look on ebay, there's usually a lot of single cow/goat milking machines with pulsators available. Also, as a vet I worked on many an animal with bacterial...

My property has a lot of oaks and this year and last year those oaks produced an incredible bounty of acorns. Both my horses and Angus browse on them and none have ever shown any adverse effects. The cattle have a roll of hay to munch on, and there's still some grass, so they aren't feeding...

All that sunnyblueskies suggested, plus fatal injury from being stepped on. That's what happened to a week-old calf one week ago, but in my case the mom was standing over it calling for it to get up.

A decade or so ago an Alabama cattle owner near where I used to live lost a lot of cattle to it, according to the vet who did the necropsies. FWIW, the owner had good pastures that were not overstocked, and the cattle were in good condition.

I'm very paranoid about net wrap ingestion and there are many extension pubs ("software disease of cattle") about it. A lot of people with cattle around me leave the net wrap and their cattle are very thin. Whether it's because they ingested some of the net wrap or the quality of care or both, I...

If this happens again, be prepared and get the placenta to a vet for testing. It decomposed rapidly after birth and will require icing or refrigeration and quick transport to a lab.

Thanks again to everyone; there were good and not so good opinions, and I appreciate all of them. Faults were pointed out that I had seen but not seriously considered, so I am grateful.

Thanks for your advice!

I'm not a professional photographer. Thanks again to everyone for your comments!

Thank you, everyone, I am grateful. I promise the next time I'll get a video for you. She is by a son of Cole Creek Cedar Ridge, so yes to low BW. She is out of a daughter of KG Solution with BC 7022 Raven on the bottom. After going through three years of drought, I've been aiming for a...

I wonder if you were bitten by a tick that causes meat allergy? It happens more often than many people realize. https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/alpha-gal/index.html

There's such a range of opinions on cattle on this forum and I'm curious about what you think about this 15 month old Angus heifer. I like her, but I'm open to criticism. Thanks in advance!

I've never owned goats, but I grew up around beef cattle and horses. I always wanted a Jersey and bought a 3 month old heifer in 2013. I trained her the same as I would a horse, she ties, cross-ties, is easy to lead, picks up her feet and all of the things you'd expect in ground manners from a...

The recipe recommended freezing them first. That helps break down that tough skin and the grapes are much easier to mash. I use a large slotted spoon to squash them, but obviously I'm working with small volumes, usually around 1 gallon of grapes which is what I get from the vines during a good year.

I think it has been more luck than skill. I use a recipe I found years ago on a web site; it is simple and the resulting product is pretty tasty. Muscadine grapes are the only grapes that do well in Florida and a lot of Florida wineries use them. Their products are better than mine, but mine...