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My first question is how much grass have you got? If the grass is good feed them 1/2 % of there body weight something like a 14% stocker ration is good or a corn glutin soy hull 50/50 every day till spring time and unload them then. But since you are feeding hay I'd say grass is not on the good...

I've catrated a lot of cattle more than I care to remeber and on occaision i have had cords break on me when I'm pulling them out sometimes only getting a inch or two of cord with the testical and I haven't found that the remaining cord has caused any trama to the calf or ill effects in the...

I ran in a 1/2 Marathon in the Dismal Swamp last year and it is still pretty much the way you discribed it the race was ran on a 13 mile trail that circles around and through the eastern edge of the swamp it was some of the most beautiful trails I've ever been on.

I have the 2500# model that works very well it is on the back of a 3/4 ton dodge with a homemade flat bed on it. I've used the trip feeder for about 2 years and the only problem that I have had was the trip counter locked up not long after getting it and T&S mailed me a new one free of charge...

I background 800-1000 head of cattle yearly and have found that adding a pinkeye vac. to your list of shots given to incoming cattle is money well spent. On incoming cattle I'll wait till Fri. or Sat. to work the calves that seems to give the buyers plenty of time to get them all to the farm...

I've never had any problem with cattle becoming real spooky but over the past few weeks almost every morning I've found calves that have stampeded during the night in one case they had demolished a four board fence that was backed with panels these cattle are very use to humans being around and...

This is a pretty useful website for evaluating cost effectiveness of a precon/backgrounding program right now I don't have excell on this computer so I can't run the spreedsheet but I use this alot at the house and it works well. http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/software/Extsoft/index.htm

I think you may be on to something I have no problem with the calf going to slaughter for dog food or what ever the case may be. But I have a problem with me killing the calf after all the mornings I thought I'd find him dead and he hobbled to the feed bunk. I think I'll ask around at the...

I purchased a 400# calf in September he was kinda wild and his first night in the barn he tryed to jump the gate and hung his right front leg between the gate and the gate post and must have hung there alnight first thing the next morning I found him with no life in him at all I cut the gate...

The longest debate of all time to cut or not to cut that is the question ? I buy primaraly bull calves from the market around 100 or so a month I castrate (cut) all of them I have lost 1 calf that I can say was due to castration and that calf bleed to death the night after I cut him I've never...

So far I've been pretty lucky there is a mill in Eden NC where we get a 50/50 CGM and Soy hulls w/Bovitech. As long as I give them a week notice they will come through I get around 17 tons twice a month and except for around the holidays I have had no problems getting my feed.

I've done it both ways and have found that it really is no different so most of the time now I go with the 6cc under the skin. As far as the single dose of 3cc's per 100# I've have had more relaps than sucess this way. Most of the time here lately micotil has been my go to drug, but that tends...

From most feed supply stores you can buy protien lick stations if I rember right from a couple of years ago the station was around $250 and the protein was $200 per fill the station was just a large tubb with 4 wheels in it for the licking with 35 head on it you will need to fill it about once a...

We have always refrained from pulling calves with just a snotty nose, if that is the only sign that the calf has an issue if the calf is off feed and generally slow I will ussally pull him. My vet. told me some years ago to think of them as kids how many kids do you see on a playground with a...

RFD has moved to channel 231 on Dish Network if you got it before you should still get it now or at least I stilll do. Hope this helped.

My topic is compensatory gain and I think I have possibbly gotten a good grasp on it so here goes. I've bought cattle for years that were good solid cattle clean 4 weight M&L 1 and 2 for the average market price they were going for at the time put a couple hundered pounds on them and turned...

We have about 75 fox hounds and all get ivomec for prevention of heart worms 1/10 of a cc per 10#'s of body weight you can either inject it or give it orally what ever you prefer but I think any tye of collie or close relation you have to be very careful with what you use to prevent heart worms...

C. Holland, Afew years ago we had way more cattle on the farm than we had grass to go through the summer but we did have a large surplus of sorry hay. The stockers we rotated through different pastures and streached it out preety good but the cow calf herd stayed in one pasture with about 30...

I don't know this is a fact first hand but one of the tire dealers in town was telling me that slim is very corosive on steel or metal wheels you might want to check on that before using it in all your tractor tires.

A freind of mine had a silver fox pup he had gotten in South Dakota years ago he kept him for a pet when the fox died many years latter he had him mounted but from what I rember the fox was almost a chcolate color and weighted close to 30#'s.