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Is it safe to say that if most of my heifers wean with good flesh from milk and grass that her nutritional needs for growth have been met, and creep feeding would only add more fat? thanks

I have a bull that has a cracked hoof. Has anyone had it, if so did the hoof heal? Do you think this can be taken care of some how? I just noticed him limping today.

Just sharing a few pics of my new bull comments welcome. The damn cow and calf would not get away from the bull so they are in the background. He is 26 months old

If you see a bull with a back fat ratio of 219 do you say he should help put fat on his calves. Or do you say to high of a back fat ratio to even use the bull. thanks for any comments

I am thinking this is a vaginal prolapse am I right? She calved 20 days ago she didn’t show any signs before she calved just noticed this the other day. She is a first calf heifer. It goes back in when she gets up, but it always seems to come out when she lays down. Please correct me if I’m...

I have a 10 month old Feltons 517 bull calf that I think is coming along real well. I was wondering what others think of him. thanks Registration # 43070725 BW - 99 ADJ 205- 672 DAM

The AHA has a Mating Predictor on herfnet for EPD’s and Inbreed Coefficient. I was curious what Inbreed Coefficient percent range any of you line breeders like to stay around And why? Thanks in advance for any input.

Do any of you test pond water for your cattle? If so were did you get it done. thanks

These are the top 20 Hereford AI sires from the 2009 calf crop. I thought that it may interest some of you. I got this from Jack Ward after asking about it from a past Hereford World article. REG # --- NAME --- BIRTH DATE -- H/P ---...

Does anyone know of any cattle showing training videos or were I should look to try and find one thanks

I have a Feltons 517 bull calf that was a twin to a heifer and mom didn’t want anything to do with the bull so I am feeding it. How could I get as close to feeding a calf myself as momma does it. I want it to be as close in size as I can to the other 517 bulls. I wanted heifers but ended...

"Because of data collected on animals in a pedigree, EPDs & $ Indexes are superior to An animal’s actual measurements in predicting an animal’s genetic ability." I read this statement in a large breeders sale catalog was wondering what eveyone thought of it. To me this is saying not to look at...

7 month old bull calf. What do you all think? I think he will be my clean up bull.

4 1/2 month old what do you think of him

If it says Uploading Photos but nothing appears, your image is too large, either in file size or dimensions or both. It will take very large images but giant images. Does anyone know how to change image size or file size for pictures so they will load in ranchers.net? thanks

Last night I spotted a cow limping badly would not put any weight on it. And the bull had a little limp. Left her until today after work got a halter on her and tied her to a tree, got her to lie down after fighting with her for ten minutes. The hoof looked good no foot rot or anything. The...

Has anyone ever weighed a calf at birth or close to and again at 24 hrs? just curios what the difference would be.

I bought a registered polled hereford cow this spring and she had a heifer calf. I thought she was scurred at three months old because they wiggled but they kept growing and they are 21/2" horn know. So I went to herfnet to look to see if I could find were the horns came from in her pedigree BRL...

Lets say i am breeding my registered herefords mainly for hiefer replacements. so do i try to select epd YW at breed average or below so I don't get bigger framed cattle? What about when you are trying to raise bulls to sell and you want high (100) YW numbers. and you get heifers with that high...

Most of the registered breeders around here seem to calve around feb/march. And it can be quite cold, from -0 deg to 40 deg. I was wondering about frozen teats with the calves sucking on them with the cold weather anyone have any problems with this. I guess this whould apply to fall calving in...