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How do you know when it's time to just sell the cattle, get someone to rent the farm, pack it in. I've thought about it a few years now, at this time of the year. I'd like to know what others are thinking. I LOVE MY COWS

My hired man and I bought a bull together, a fancy club calf bull, BW suitable for heifers (we hope!) It's now time for the bull to come to my house. He has pinkeye. Hired man gave him LA 200, penicillin both eyes, fly dope, patched the eye with a loose patch to keep sun out. My herd has...

Once, years ago, I had a super fat show heifer who had nearly no milk, no bag, I gave her BST 2x, and she did raise the calf, we sold her (the non-milking heifer). Yesterday, my worst milking cow gave birth to twin heifers. This is her 3rd lactation she has adequate milk for one calf, but...

Our calves birth weights are all over the map this year, but average 80 lbs. We had a 62 lb tiny heifer born l wk early. She seems healthy, but is tiny and super fine boned. We looked and looked and LOOKED for a twin,didn't find one. My question is if others have had this experience. Since...

Nearly the end of April, no warm sun, tons of mud. Just felt like bitching. ENOUGH WINTER already. :mad:

I would like to purchase 5 straws of Final Answer 0035 If anyone has some to sell please contact. THANKS!

My hired guy is considering spending big dough on a potential show animal for his little girl. The sire is AAA L. Sagahatchee, dam is a Champion Hill. I don't know anything about this sire except I saw one jump out of a sale ring once, but perhaps she'd been mishandled. Can you Forum folks...

I am a retired veterinarian with a small herd of Reg Angus, 1/4 of which have NH, so we are looking for another direction. Maine Anjou were suggested to me. I think of these cattle as having a ton of bone, being colored, having horns, and the only one I saw in practice was - well- "reactive"...

Awhile back, I posted about our herd getting hammered with AM/NH/CA. Still have 5 nice cows that are NH. Just tested last years calves, they are all NH too, it seems to be a sticky mutation. Well, the hell with that, I'm thinking AI to a Club Calf bull and if they are fancy, maybe someone...

I am interested in these cattle. I'm getting older, my sons have moved away, and our herd was knocked out of the angus seedstock business (we were never very big!) by AM, NH and now CA -100% of my cows are potential carriers, kind of sick of it, thought I might think of something else. Are...

Should have fixed this last winter but of course we didn't . Trouble shooting from the implement dealer says that the control box needs repair --- Wondering if anyone has ever had one of these repaired. We opened box up and it was just a scary nest of wires and tiny circuit board. Got to send...

A beautiful show angus heifer lost her Sitz Upward bull calf at birth, I was a lousy obstetrician, she's pretty fat. Got her a one hour old dairy bull calf which she accepted as her own. She wants to go with the other mother cows and the herd. How long would you guys keep this calf and the...

Posted this on a different board by mistake. Last year we took calves to a fancy sale where cattle are bought for breeding as well as for show. We paid a guy to clip them and we thought he did a great job. However someone (who knows, who is super experienced) said that our "clip job" looked...

last year we took some cattle to a sale, first time. We paid a fellow to clip them. I thought he did a terrific job, but another person there (who knows) said that the cattle were clipped "like show-steers" as opposed to heifers and bulls. What does that mean? Any help would be appreciated.

So, we didn't plow the snow because some light rain was forecast, could have made it all icy, didn't want to create a skating rink out of the yard.....WELL, it's been POURING for 24 hours, now we have icy soup, cattle are a mess. YIKES! I hate a winter rain!!! But, despite all that, MERRY...

How much (if any) money is it possible to produce with home grown hay (pretty good hay), 6 mos of pretty lush grazing, selling beef direct to folks, Angus genetics w/ hi quality grade genes for tenderness,feed efficiency and all, if you fattened out 10-12 head per year and sold them? Sold them...

It is reported that cows of a carrier bull should have only 50% chance of being carriers. ALL of my best cows are NH. I'm wondering if sweet disposition and NH are linked in some way. Also, what are people DOING with all their cows? I can't sell these girls pregnant to slaughter. They are...

These seem pretty pricey (by the pound!) but I think they are kind of interesting. Any miniature cattle devotees out there?