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That is all the Milorganite brand of fertilizer is, Milwaukee-Organic-Nitrogen, straight out of the sewer processing plant. No reason not to use dried sewer sludge if you can get your hands on it. http://milorganite.com/home/

TNCowman, sounds like we have about the same luck. Seems like with my small operation I can't get away with anything. Mr. Murphy (the guy who created the law) is always out at my place. Trees blown over and flattened fence, cattle in the creek: CHECK Broken pipe on waterer: CHECK Cows finding...

Arnold, Now THAT was some funny stuff! :lol:

Absolutely! Mowing them does help, and if your cattle graze them real hard as tender young plants that will keep them in check pretty well too. We opened up two other pastures this year too early for them to graze my thistle laden pasture as hard as I would have liked in hindsight, plus had lots...

Out here we call that variety "Bull Thistle". Never had any locally until there was a fire that ripped through my closest neighbor's place a couple summers ago. Now he's got over 3/8ths of a mile of it along the creek bank right up to my fenceline. I'm sure I'll be fighting it next year, as he's...

We've had so much rain that the irrigation district can't get in to fix lines without sinking a tractor, so I guess we'll be feeding hay before too long the way it's looking.

My herd is a commercial hodgepodge right now (Hereford, Red Angus, Charolais, Hillbilly Hybrid etc. etc), but I plan on acquring some more purebred Herefords over the next several months. I'm going to linebreed everthing around Keynote 20X, as there are so many different good indivduals down...

I don't believe you could kill a Cottonwood or an Oak tree with either cattle or supplements around them. I've got both around here and they are very old and have had cows around them longer than I've been alive.

It's all out on the West Coast this year. Seems like feast or famine. Last week before the storms of the last few days, Lake Shasta was at 98% and they couldn't get water out fast enough to handle the next storm. Same thing down in Southern California, they have about a 10 year drought, and then...

Chuckie nailed it. Went to a wedding reception and saw this girl I used to work with. She lives in town, married to a slicker, and mom and dad have about 4 acres where she keeps a horse or two. This gal never shut up the whole day about her horse hobby. One would have thought her last name was...

Most Nevada land is pretty worthless to cattle ranchers as you can only run about 1 head per every 100-200 acres. There are some big Nevada based operations like Triple Lazy S and some others, but they have several hundred thousand acres to do what most guys can do with a couple hundred acres.

That's it just to peddle sale barn calves he'd be a real decent bull, and there are lots of folks that do exactly that. Would I want that fault in my herd? No, but it likely may never manifest itself ever again, and probably very occasionally at worst. He's a well bred little bull and I bet...

For a commercial guy starting out, this looks like an excellent opportunity to upgrade the genetics in his herd. Bulls and cows do not reproduce themselves very often, they reproduce the average of their lineage. Sure, everyone wants to produce above the average of the ancestry and raise the bar...

I have about 30 head of Corriente cattle here now (a friends), and am breeding a couple heifers to a little Corriente bull. The upside is usually very low birthweight, hardiness, and also as previously mentioned they will eat anything. You can get some good money for your horned roping calves...

Gator, I'd see if you could get some bred cows, maybe a couple pairs, or a 3 in 1 (cow, calf and mama bred back again). This way you're already setting yourself up a good plan for replacements after any go to the freezer.

Farminlund, In your situation it probably WAS the linebreeding that produced the anus-less calf. However, that same defect potential is still with the sire and or dam, but going to surface less often when you outcross and scatter the gene pool wider. Nonetheless, it may still surface when you...

Dun, If the good Doctor went 4 generations deep daughter back to sire it would have looked like this: 1st Inbreeding=75% EXT 2nd Inbreeding=87.5% EXT 3rd Inbreeding=93.75% EXT 4th Inbreeding=96.875% EXT Now it was his "experiment" so to each his own, but clearly the good Doctor has no real...

Turflon/Garlon will get all of your weeds and leave your grass alone. Unfortunately, it WILL get your clover. However, you could spray Turflon and then seed back with clover and you'd be rid of the thistle and other weeds. Turflon is also the only thing that will touch berry vine.

Compact size calves, and you can get as much money out of a horned roping calf today as you can a straight beef calf.

Sounds reasonable. I'm doing this now with a pretty young Hereford, but the bull being used is a very small Corriente from Mexico, who's calves consitently weigh in about 30-40 lbs. It seems to me that bull selection is even more important than randomly picking out a set age or set percentage of...