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Greetings all, I'm looking to buy 4-6 angus/angus cross feeder calves for our place up here in central NY? I can have them picked up in the next week or so. Specially, we're near the village of Poland, ~20 miles north of Utica. Thanks much, JR

Greetings all, Thinking that it would do a better job on my 2 acres or so of lawn than my Bush Hog, I bought a 1980s model John Deere 272 finish mower. It's a pretty big unit (for my lawn which has lots of obstacles) but, if I drive slow and keep the deck height right, it does a pretty good...

Hi all, Having determined here (viewtopic.php?f=8&t=72042) that my new pump was working, I went out today and saw that I have a leak in my 300 gallon stock tank. I took some clear silicon and tried to patch it up but it didn't work. What's the best way to fix it? Tanks JR

Yesterday I bought a 150 gallon/minute 2" Pacer water transfer pump for pushing water from my brook to the back of my property. I used the pump at noon today to fill up my 300 gallon stock tank; when I went back about 6pm the tank was empty. I didn't think anything of it (it has been VERY hot)...

It just keeps better up here in upstate! Today, the cows got out and found a neighbor's pond (of the decorative type). I was in town when my wife called so I rushed back. When I got there the cattle (8 cows and 4 calves) were already out of the water and back in the woods. The first thing...

Greetings all, I've been told, kindly but firmly, that I HAVE to finish upgrading the house but that the farm is taking all my time! ;-) It's actually a good time as I now know a few things about raising cattle that would have been helpful to know back in 2008 when we bought our herd of 6 bred...

I've been waiting to write about this because I wasn't sure that I'd correctly identified the animal but it's clear: about 2 weeks ago my oldest heifer, born last year in early February, gave birth to a healthy (albeit SMALL) calf. I didn't think this was possible. Has anyone ever had a 8...

So last year the buttercups (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculus) took over and now some of my pastures are a sea of bright yellow. What do you folks know about them? I'm trying to mow as much of my land this year as I can to knock it back (and the golden rod, multi-flora rose, thistle...

Hi all, Out tonight opening a new paddock up for the cows I stumbled upon a new calf (born yesterday afternoon). I haven't yet looked him over or tagged him so I went over and started to inspect him when he stood up and bolted, top speed, to the east (the herd were all to the west), through...

Greetings! Last week the water started running cloudy out of the faucet. I didn't think much about it as temperatures were in the 40s and 50s so the snow and ice were melting. I assumed that our 20' dug well was just getting some sediment from all the melt. The problem has persisted; even...

Hi all, Well the winter is finally really here in upstate NY. What little snow we had all melted with a couple of days of weather in the 40s about 8-10 days ago. Prior to that we'd had mostly reliable moderate cold. The reason for the weather history is that I think I have a big problem. As...

Greetings all, It's been some time since I've checked in. We had a wonderful summer, all our mama cows calved without problems (except our helfer calf which got confused and didn't want to nurse her calf at first) and have been healthy, happy and fast growing. I castrated my bulls a couple of...

Hi all, Been sometime since I've posted. Spring was a riot of growth around here. Early too. And dry. My well can't keep up and I'm planning on pumping out from a year round brook that runs through my property. I'm thinking something cheap (of course). There's no power out back so I'm...

Hi all, Well, we're plugging along and I've decided that I'll need a couple more steers for the coming fall, so today, along with a friend who's bought from him before, I went out to see a cow/calf producer who has some very nice looking calves he says were born in June, July and August. There...

We'll I've had 3 calves so far this year and, other than some frostbite on the tips of the ears of the first born, have had no troubles. Until today. My heifer calved about 2.5 hours ago. She's been bellowing very loud every 10 seconds or so since she calved. Though she was attentive to the...

My second calf just came (also early by at least 3 weeks from the vet's estimate). It's about 11pm here and it was probably born an hour or 2 ago. So, I'd like to get it into my poll barn since it'll be dropping to about 17F tonight (it's about 30F at the moment) and we're supposed to get...

I go out to feed the cows today and there, in the middle of the almost empty round bale feeder, is a cute little bull calf! According to the vet he wasn't due until the first week in Feb; I'd not noticed any bagging up of the mother so we were caught completely by surprise. Upon discovering...

So I've got my hay guy delivering about 70 4x5 small round bales of hay in a couple of days. They'll be stored outside on pallets covered with tarp. I've heard it said that you want a tarp to be able to breathe to limit the moisture that's trapped inside. Does anyone think it's worth the...

I'm considering buying this bander: http://www.inosol.com. It's about $50 (including 25 bands). Looks very easy and the people I've heard from say it works great even on large sacks. Anybody have problems with it?

I'm putting in an order for the following today: 1 ton 1400 corn (course) 200 soybean meal 200 distillers 25 lime 50 mineral 30 salt 100 molassis The nutritionist who advises this formulation says that it'll come in at about 14% protein. Does...