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Dog clippers are cheap.

Why not get some show cattle clippers and give him a buzz cut?

Do cherry leaves have to be wilted? When we moved here there was a domestic Rainer yellow cherry tree where my horse corral was going to be.. Cut it off at the ground because horses will chew the bark. There are 2 other cherry trees in the yard. If a cow ate several fresh leaves would she get sick?

People used to think sulfur block discouraged ticks.

We were talking with the rancher across the road yesterday about pinkeye. He said it's bad here (face flies) and when they started giving pinkeye veccine every year it stopped. I got some vaccine for my cows today. He also said if you have the cow in the squeeze pull out her lower eyelid making...

I've raised a few bottle calves on milk based replacer. I have never raised a calf that was such a strong and aggressive nurser as this one getting Honeydew's Jersey milk. It's like vanilla ice cream diluted with water. She is also especially shiny.

The last calf I raised (Honeydew, milking now) refused to eat or even nibble calf starter. I put out fresh every day for weeks. Finally I dumped some of her milk replacer on the grain and she ate it like a kid with a bowl of cereal

In the dairy calf raising industry soy milk replacer is frowned upon.

This morning I found a mobile vet out of the north end of the next county. Mobile vets out in the country see a lot of cattle and horses. I emailed her so I can set up a doctor/client/patient relationship. Country vets -- I once took a sick chicken in to see one and he only charged $5.00 and...

The problem here in Coos county Oregon is there are no large animal vets. There is one vet in a small animal practice who sees large animals but only on Thursdays, plus a $350 far a farm call. The dairies around here do their own vet work. My dear elderly dog doctor used to see large animals. He...

I used to use automatic fish food feeders on timers to feed my horses pellets. Working at the hospital 40 miles away I couldn't always get home to feed them on time.

Is your vet going to make a farm call?

(Update) I guess by now people have heard about this. The H5N1 Bird flu from last year that caused massive depopulation of poultry farms all over the world is still around. Now it's spread to dairy herds first in the Texas panhandle, then New Mexico, Kansas, Minnesota, and Idaho. The infected...

Luck said "So you caught the bird flu? Any idea how you caught it? How long were you sick and what were the symptoms?" No, that was the the swine flu H1N1 epidemic of 2009. The virus jumped to humans on Mexican farm workers. I probably caught it Dec. 2008 at the Texas hospital where I was a...

It appears that highly pathogenic avian bird flu has jumped to mammals. I remember the Swine flu of 2008-2009 that originated in Mexico. I got infected with it when I lived in Texas before they knew what it was. I almost died at home alone out in the woods, too weak to turn over in bed or dial...

The girls. Young dairy bulls that are imprinted on and have no fear of people are some of the most dangerous livestock on Earth. You don't make pets out of them.

I have seen idiot teenage girls leading intact Jersey bull calves around in TSC talking baby talk to them. Can you imagine what kind of wreck that is going to turn out to be?

Thats too bad. What did your son do about the rain rot?

Do cattle get rain rot? - It has rained 20" here since the first of the year. A few days ago I noticed my old Jersey (born 2011) out in the pasture furiously whipping her tail over her back and trying to turn around and trying to lick her tailhead area. Brought her up and slick but dry mud was...

I ordered one of those Peach Teats. It's not here yet. Honeydew is due to calf in a few weeks. I don't care for those honking big rubber nipples on the regular bottles, I've had to force calves to drink from them. Since I will be raising bottle heifers from now on I want something they take to...