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well my jersey, i got it another calf to adopt, and it has adopted it , but its still looking for the old one that we took away onto the farm how long until she will stop mooing in search of it thanks

ye i have been thinking of doing something similar, well i got a jersey at my house and she adopted an angus heifer we bought from the sale yards, shes clocking up around 5 months, perhaps i shuld put it back to 4 months and turnover 3 calves a year, well this is her first calf, i shuld put a...

wow wat a great post, thanks for your insight :tiphat: , i saw u mentioned.... 8 to 12 calves per cow :o ? , how the heck do you do that, what breed of cows does she use, wow ive never heard bout that many being nursed off the one cow before Im really glad with the amount of imput and...

ye i dont fully understand your reply, you dont really have to do anything special when you grow organic forage, you just cant spray it, theres a minus in costs and some labour..... but i still dont see anymore labour intensity....

i know how producing organic veggetables is more intensive....but organic meat ? please explain...... i know i wont be vaccinating, or drenching animals, ect, that would be disallowed in the organic market, but of course i would you if an animal was sick or something, but that animal would...

remember that the sprouting grain idea that we picked up and have seen before is quite economical, can raise the carrying capacity, and it is very cheap..... i dont have to keep the organic certification, it is for all the 40 acres as far as I know, but havin the certification would be a good...

ye i hope everyone was reading that i read in my local paper today, that mixed Hereford steers were being sold for 204 cents (AU) , these steers were around 230kgs per head, one of the steers on my farm, big Santa, he would now b around 500 odd kgs, and after his first year, after raisin him...

im in Queensland Australia

its not all over red rover lol , dad told me he is willing to buy one of the neighbouring properties once they come on the market. so if i got one of those places, heck i would be laughing , but that was part of the plan too once i got some money,not all from the farm, but from another job...

ye there is a guy down the road from us who has a lot of cattle , but not really much land , i dunno wat he does with them exactly , he gets hay and grain in for them, so hes not feeding them all for nothing, he has a large number of calves in a nursery like pen he has made, always full of calves.

.... but i do have the right equipment, we are still buying gud stuff wen we see it , like at next years ag show , dads gunna buy me a new you beaut cattle crush

im located in south east queensland australia , i dunno how much you pick up per head, the price now here is about $1.96 a kilo, and with a 300kg plus steer, thats over 600 bucks that could be picked up at the yards, i think i would pick up more than $100 profit, remember , organic , so no need...

actually the veggies do fetch a fair bit of money, im just not fully interested in carrying on with growing veggies

but im pretty sure it still regrows , doesnt it , even if u cut it before the head forms ?

ye but with the use of sprouting fodder , the carrying capasity can be raised quite a bit , i dont know if you have heard of it before....

ok the situation. im in my last year of highschool and study rural operation and ag science. my family owns a 40 acre farm. my dad grows veggies on the place and sells to the wholesaler i have some cattle out there , not that many, but numbers are slowly growing. is it possible to run a decent...

ye well anyways i have half a paddock of forage sorghum planted, along with some mixed in legumes ect. the crop is nearing one month in age. it is about nearing a foot, 12 inches, in height, we have had a recent downpour of rain, and hot days are predicted this week so the crop is very likely...

ye i was just asking when the best time to graze grass, like at what stage. its starting to produce some seed now, and is quite green, is it a gud time ? its called love grass, it is being grazed by a lactating jersey cow with a calf at foot so ye post your thoughts and sugestions, also for...

ye well i got a calf, that was adopted by a jersey we bought for that purpose.I got a few different questions , and it would be great if anyone out there could give me some good answer, thx in advance a pretty big lot of questions and information, please read and answer if you can thx ill try...

um , do pastures grow better like if the whole paddock planted is just the one seed ? not like a few different pastures mixed together ? thx