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Gosh, thanks again for all the good input Yes the calves are quite big and of course with just four, we have not weaned anything. We also thought that he must have everything bred when he started pushing the fence for the neighbor cow. And those angus females kept getting out and into our yard...

Thank you everyone. You gave me exactly the information I was looking for. We got the bull the middle of september and he went home the middle of november because he was looking at our neighbors registered angus herd. We have four pairs, the calves are about 8 months now, and five heifers...

Hello We have one cow and two heifers that did not get bred while we had a bull with them. They are all longhorns that we raise for roping cattle. My husband wants to look into getting the three A.I.'d, but I don't know the cost or the procedure and if it would even be worth it for three...

Thanks so much I worm twice a year with pour on and vaccinate everything else once a year, Blackleg and something else, I can't remember off the top of my head. One is intra muscular and the other is subcataneous. Just didn't know if it was different with cows and calves. Hopefully we can get...

I have three longhorn pairs, the calves are about 2 months old, two bulls, one heifer. How soon do I castrate? When and with what do I vaccinate them? How about the mothers, when do I worm and vaccinate and with what? We have about 16 head of roping cattle (includes the pairs) on about 10...

Here are a couple of the babies, safe and sound. Thanks for the input. We ended up with four. They are about 3 months old now. http://cattletoday.com/photos/data/503/ ... C00112.JPG

Wow Proverbs, that is interesting. May explain our situation. Thanks

Wow Aero...thanks! What great information!

Just had my first Lesson.... :oops:

Thanks for the nice words. I am actually a girl and my husband works very long hours and let's me handle the cattle (our whole 12 head :D ) I want to do a good job.

That is why I put Quotes around steer. We bought him just weaned at a sale as a steer, he was very small and weak, and turned out to be a bull....very late bloomer. I was told that Longhorns don't have late bloomers and he must have been shooting blanks, but obviously was not. Thanks for the...

Oops sorry. I just wanted to know if anyone deals with Longhorns and if their calving and care is easier than the commercial beef breeds. Thanks for the post

I have 3 longhorn heifers bred (accidentally to a Longhorn "steer"). Anyway, their bellies are huge and they are getting a little bit of a bag. My friend says it is close when they start "springing"? I don't know what that means. I don't know how to tell when they are close to calving. I...

somn thanks, I would have never thought of that. I checked on them last night, I have kept them in for a couple of days to keep an eye on them, and they look fine. I will turn them back out on pasture tonight or tomorrow.

Thanks for all the help yesterday. The smaller gauge needle was so much better. I got them done last night and did not seem to hurt anyone. I lost some dosage through where the needle attaches to the syringe, so I hope everyone got enough. I didn't want to poke them a second time. It only...

C Holland, what a good idea. I am going to look at some of those posts re: the lumps, I sure thought I was hurting them. I just kept shoving the whole needle under the skin and there wasn't that much to get under. Thanks for the tip.

Thanks Cuz...you hit it on the head. I am the biggest dork trying get it under the skin, I feel sorry for them. Hopefully I will get better as we go along. We are finishing our third year and this is our fourth bunch, we started with four, got up to seventeen and are now down to eleven. I...

Thank you for making that point. There are some ropers who are appalling in their treatment of their roping stock, but I have found that as the exception, not the rule. I believe you will find that in any vocation. They are an investment and we treat them as such. We buy our own roping...

Great, thanks again. I only have six new ones to do. Eleven total. Not much, but I want to take very good care of them. We just sold five of them and I am not cut out for this, I want to keep them all. Especially roping cattle, you never know how someone is going to treat them. Anyway, I...

Thanks for the info. I will get the smaller gauge tonite. Maybe that is part of my problem. Also, intramuscular, straight into the neck or at an angle? I really appreciate the feedback