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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...

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...

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...

I had a 800# steer go down on me the other day when we had the vet over fixing a prolaps that I just couldn't get to stay in no matter how many times I stiched him up. In the past when a good size steer would go down in the chute I would pull on him and loosen the head gate and when all else...

I'm a coffee fanatic I love the stuff black and strong maxwell house most of the time. Has any one tried grinding there on beans and is it any better?

Pulmo-Guard MpB prevention of respiratory disease caused by Mycoplasma bovis. I asked my Vet about adding this to our vaccination progarm and he said it was throwing your mony away that the vacination was very experimental and in his opion as of now there was no effective vaccine for Mycoplasma...

Had a few pulls to make this morning after feeding up one looked pretty sick and the other not too bad but I could tell he was getting sick, while driving them out of the pasture and to the barn the one that felt the best got a little crazy took off across the pastue like a bat out of hell the...

What months of the year do you find are the hardest on cattle? I have often thought summer or winter because of the extrem temp. but I'm begining to think the fall and early spring months maybe even harder due to the constant changing in temps. 45 at night and 80 during the day. It tends to...

There have been times when I have recived a group of cattle that looked very stressed from shipping and running mild fevers and I have treated the whole group with agrimycen 200 when they are ran through the chute for their first vacinations. What are the effects if there is any on the vac...

How important is this to a feedyard operator? Had you rather have a feeder that is eating 2% of his body weight a day plus free choice hay and pasture or one that is grazing and being fed 2lbs. of grain? Compensatory gain to a stocker operator is important, but to a feedyard operator is a hot...

I'm thinking about attending in Feb. did anybody go last year and what did you think? http://www.midsouthstocker.org/

My father is a forest warden for the state of Virginia and spent 12 weeks in Oklahoma fighting wildfires I was wondering how the pasture land came back after it was all burned out. I don't rember now where he said he was stationed but he said it was near Reba McEntire's Ranch. As a farmer I...

How much rise in temp. should I see in heat stress? Vet. says he has taken temps. in heat stressed calves of 106 and did nothing. That just seems real high to just be heat related.

This is not recent but this could always happen to one of us again and maybe we'll learn something. Last years stockers for the most part all looked good the normal sickness BVD and a few with BRSV lost a few but not alot of any thing had a pretty good year for sickness. This one calf puzzeled...

Got 44 steers from a local stock yard and 26 of the 44 were running a fever (104.5-107.0) any where in that range. I expect to get a few fevers with each load but this was alot more than normal. The cattle did not spend more than 12 hours in the same pen and were bought in 3 seperate groups so...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am looking for something to haul feed to the pasture. Right now I haul about 800 lbs. a day in 5 gal. buckets I like feeding the calves in bunks because it makes them calm when it comes time to load them up or get...

I am looking for something to haul feed to the pasture. Right now I haul about 800 lbs. a day in 5 gal. buckets I like feeding the calves in bunks because it makes them calm when it comes time to load them up or get them back to the barn to be worked. I still have some old creep feeders left...

I buy a lot of 3 and 4 weight bulls at the market and have been acustum to castrating apon arrival when they are run through the chute the first time to recieve vac. as a lot of you know reduction of stress in calves means reduction of illness. Now for my question, is it better for the calf to...