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You are right. Anything below a frame 5 starts stepping into the dairy/longhorn/hereford price territory in my neck of the woods.

If it was a breeder who had been at it a long time using his own genetics and I had seen positive results from other people, I wouldn’t hesitate to use their genetics. There is a Hereford breeder in my state that uses his own genetics and a lot of commercial people use his bulls on their black...

I separated a few heifers off yesterday to wean off of their mommas. How long would y’all keep them separate from their mothers before putting them back with them? I was thinking 30 days.

A few years I was at a point (2012?)when my cows were calving from August to October. I had to make a decision about wether to stay there and fall calve or leave my bull in year around and move them back to spring calving over a few years. Well several years later I have the results of leaving...

LOL, I'm considering keeping a bull calf back this year to breed to a couple of heifers that are his half siblings. Their sire was calving ease. With the prices now, it might be a better idea because they might be better when I sell him after he breeds them.

The vet said that she was too d@mn fat. I fed about 10 pound of 13% msg pellets last winter to stretch hay.

What's the best source of selenium?

I have a cow that is 8 years old and had a retained placenta this summer after she calved. This cow has been a good cow and I am well below stocking rate and I cannot afford to buy or gamble on replacement heifers. If she bred back in a timely manner, would you consider keeping her for another year?

Check out this inbred calf born yesterday . Do you see the two heads on her? She is the granddaughter and great granddaughter of OCC Prototype.

I have another question? What's the lowest (Angus) CED and the highest BW that you would use on heifers? I am one of those "one bull" small operators that has to have the same bull for both heifers and cows. My Angus bull now has a CEM of +11. I just like having an above average CEM because I...

My bull has great docility. He is not a pet,nor do I try to pet him. Every other black or Angus bull that I have had has been a snorter and a pawer , or became one eventually. I am in the process of building my herd back up the next few years and I am trying to do it with high $EN Ohlde bulls...

Where do I go to get him tested? Is there some way that I could draw blood and send it off to get tested?

I have been thinking of breeding my bull to his daughters next year in order to keep my bull and to take advantage of his calving ease, but his sire is a genetic defect carrier.

My bull is a son of Prototype and the heifer calves that I have got off of him this year look better than the bull calves.

That would have been a perfect date back during my ryegrass planting days, but I usually don't quit feeding hay until April 1.

Those sound like good ideas if I had plenty of money and free time. I work sunup to sundown 5 days(and sometimes saturdays) a week and do not have much free time and because of that I have to have a cow that fits the situation that I have . I use to plant ryegrass and clovers in the fall, but I...

How about if you have plenty of shade,ponds, and the bull works the night shift just to breed a dozen cows during the summer?

I wouldn't touch Kardashtrash with a 20 foot pole.

Well I am keeping my eyes open for a couple of places nearby that are primarily fescue so I put the just weaned calves on the stockpiled fescue for the winter starting about thanksgiving.

The fescue gives you a good advantage. I live where the Peidmont meets the SandHills. Most of my land is too sandy for fescue.