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In October of 2011 we bought a new herd bull along with three new bred heifers. The heifers started calving, on time, in mid January of 2012 along with our other cows, we have only five total. Now as it turns out in 2013 two out if the five where late to have calves. 2014 and two, two different...

I have a four month old calf whos dam I want to cull. Should I wait until he is 6 months old or just go ahead and cull her? In my area August is the best time for cull cows to sell.

These are some of the Shorthorns: This little girl was so darn cute. She really fought with her heifer at times. This is and Angus and Shorthorn. The Angus is the older of the two.

This young man loved this heifer and so did the judge. This was my favorite of the whole show. A CharX that looked like a Murray Gray to me.

Went to look at some today. Just not sure they are an early maturing cattle.

I did a search on here and found that several people, like me, have giving vaccs and had lumps left behind. I gave shots to some calves on July 2nd and a few still have lumps as of yesterday August 14th. How long does it take for them to go away and if they don't, Why not? Does an injectable...

I have to ask these questions because they are some of my strongest weakness in regards to the phenotypes of cattle. 1. Frame: Please diffine this term. 2. Describe to me how you can "see" with your eyes early or late maturing cattle if you know there ages or not. 3. At what age can you see...

Because I have so few cows I am considering taking an A.I. course and buying a tank. What is an average price for a tank and monthly fee? When buying semen, how few straws can you purchase?

to cattle. Or it's a real serious desire to collect. I regret that I didn't go straight out of High School to Cattle College. I would today be running around looking at peoples cattle, farms, forage, etc. All the things I like. You know you really like cattle when you look at your horses...

I sell freezer beef. Half my calves this year were heifers. I sold all but one because I culled their moms with them and have one heifer left. The same day they sold we bought back replacement bulls, to steer ,at the stockyard. I don't like to do this because I hate to open my herd and plus...

Does anyone know about these programs in the different states? We have one started in Tennesse. If you are familiar with this could you give details?

Both of these guys have excellent feed conversion! They have never been on grain a single day so please don't say they are "hard fed". They appear to have a probility of fertitility but yet I have never seen them cover a cow. Sadly they are of the last of there breeding as the the horned bull...

Spinning off the Aquacillin thread I am very interested to know what most people do when vaccinating , injecting dewormer, etc. These are questions not nessessarily my practice. 1. Do you use a different needle per animal? 2. If not how many animals do you average per needle? 3. Do you...

I would like to see some pictures of freemartins at several different ages if possible.

What type of condition would you expect to see a 19-20 month old bull in if he were with 20 cows for two months in the spring, grazing only fescue with no grain, and of the Shorthorn breed? Would you expect that he would loose weight?

Okay, I have a calf that is out of a first time heifer that scoured at about three weeks old. It was gray then yellow then white. I gave him a two day bolis of oxytetracycline in pill form. He was fine. Now he is 2 1/2 months old and has these scours again along with a pasture mate who...

I would like to purchase educational material that will help me learn Phenotypes, frame scores, conformation faults, etc. Please let me know if you have a good source. Thanks, Sonya P.S. Doc Harris.....any advise?

Just as dessert was finished after dinner we see this silver Toyota 4-runner coming down our 1000ft driveway. Guy says "Do you have cows"? "Yes" . "Well, there are about 10 over in the park". WHAT? Hubby comes in the house to tell me the good news. I hit the ground running for the feed...

I would like to see examples of cattle that just by phenotype would most likely have a high fed conversion. Could you please explain what to look for and why?

And do you have a palp. gate as well? How does that fit? Do they raise the level of the squeeze shoot?