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We use a 7 acre AUM here in our mountain pastures and a 10 acre AUM in Our lower Native grass pastures. Now that may not help alot but I can tell you this area will not be 1-2 acre AUM land. You would not be able to run very many pairs on here at all for for any amount of time. The best bet...

If you are in the business of just feeding cattle in a feedlot you probably arent doing just great(depending on feed costs). We calve in the spring and then when fall rolls around we run these calves along with alot more in our feedlot and our pastures. We added 1000 capacity to our feedlot a...

No two operations are the same, what works for over here may not work down there and vice versa. Each person finding what works the best and most economic for their situation is all anyone can do. Part of running an operation is finding and knowing costs and overheads. Anyone who doesnt do...

Around here the small guys get togethar and do all of their as the same time. You do not need a tank and you sure as heck shouldnt need a 50 straws for 15 cows. Get a bunch of buddies with a few cows get no more than 2 straws per cow and get a local experienced breeder to help you guys out...

Here is my $.02 The going figure around here is that a good bull on good flat relativley small pasture can cover about 30-35 cows, sometimes 40. I have seen intensive grazing on pivots where 41 has been hit but thats deff the high end. safer to say about 30-35 cows per bull in this scenario...

what are you trying to accomplish? what are your herd goals? what markets are you targeting? Its confusing to see such a question because it makes you look like you have no idea what you are buying. Did he have any numbers or EPD's with him. Honestly he looks like an old bull in the face. I...

Double wrap your wire around your H posts.

The sheer fact that you are asking about them is probably not enough knowledge on your part to jump right in. You need to be a real cattleman, you need to know how to draw customers and buyers at the same time, you need to know how to how to market cattle. You need to be willing to sort cattle...

Sounds like you need a new vet. Most vets I know that cant tell you what happened to the animal will cut them open for free as they are curious as well. I would say ask him to cut her open and if he doesnt find a new Vet, this ones pretty simple. IMO

All of our summer pasture is around pine trees. As long as they have something else to eat they wont touch the pine needles, or over here anyway they wont. If you are worried about turning out into a pasture just watch your stocking rate so they wont run out of food and you will be fine.

Around these parts its about $12 per head for yearlings and $18 per head for pairs. This is going rate for most mountain meadow scenarios. Maybe higher prices if you are running on irrigation. I would be interested in possibly leasing from you if you are looking?

The most important thing to remember with these calves is you want to keep them happy. Stress kills and the quicker you can handle them, get them on fresh water and feed the better off they are going to be. The shot of LA will last 72 hours or about 3 days. The reason why some people...

Agree, you neednt give them both LA and Nuflor(actually may may have a very negative affect if given both). If you think the calves are healthy and dont need a shot you dont need to give anything besides wormer or whatever you have planned. If you get them home and for some reason his ears are...

The last piece of advice I would give you is that there is no substitute for early dedection of sickness in cattle. Sometimes it doesnt matter if you have the proper drugs, if that calf is to long gone nothing can be done. Learn what to look for in sick cattle and practice looking at sale...

LA-200 is a good antibiotic to give for pneumonia type symptoms. I am not sure where you heard that LA is only good for pinkeye and footrot but I dont think so. The majority of problems with calves of most any age is their lungs. Their respirotry system is about as weak and vulnerable as you...

Our ranch calves never get sick, but when purchasing from the sale barn and there are 10 different sellers on a reciept for a load of cattle, we get just about everything under the sun for sickness. Performance is gonna depend on where they came from, what they already have, quality of cattle...

Exactly, If they get sick again after the LA we use Nuflor.

how big of calves? For stocker calves in the fall(450-550lbs) as soon as we get them off the truck we give them, dectomax wormer, pyramid, 7 way, and 20CC of LA (oxytytriceclene) and they get branded. They go straight to a small pasture for the first week on grass and some alfalfa and then into...

In most sale barns they use this classification, atleast around here... Heifers 2-4 YO Solid mouth 4-7 YO spread mouth7-8YO broken mouth 8-10 YO smooth mouth10+ YO when you haul a bred cow to a sale they will age her with a quick check to her lower incisors, her upper front mouth is a dental...

How big was your jump in grain from 6-18lbs. You say they still leave some of your 9lbs which sounds like more than 6lbs but less than 9 which in most cases would be normal. The hotter the feed or diet, the more gradual the increments need to be. try taking away their free choice hay. for...