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    Custom Feed Recipes for Heifers and bulls?

    Your soy hulls and your beetpulp are high in fiber already so unless you don't have enough in your mix it should be OK. You can add some cotton seed hulls in for more roughage if you like, or shop around for one of the concentrates and add your ingredients to it. Purina grand fortifier comes to...
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    Shorthorn heifer Charolais bull

    The bull I would steer and market him to a county fair if he is pretty mellow then someone just starting out would be best target area with him hes not a bad county fair calf. The heifer since your in texas it should be easy to find someone to clip her out and price from there I think she could...
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    Are you a breeder?

    My parents helped me buy my herd when I was 15. I have ran the herd for 18 years now. I was in the same boat as you and this is how it worked for me. I did everything while in high school. In college I had to come home on the weekends and farm for dad all summer for feed in the winter and to...
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    Please help me with this steer if you can

    There are a couple ways to help fix the problem first I would try is tying him up for a couple hours a night with head high. Wash, dry, comb and all the other fun stuff while he us tied so your there if he does get himself in trouble. after he has been tied high that long his neck muscles will...
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    What to do with these bulls?

    If the show route is something you want to do then there is always denver in January, and also a winter show in arizon. I don't know how far you want to go but those are some good market shows that the calves would be the right age. they are a little young for county shows around here as we...
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    Club Calf Producers

    For shorthorns try the kaba ranch they are in roggen its joe christenson. Also Yearous cattle company in Ft. Morgan has angus cross. Then there is Eric Gabel in Wiggins he has maine and shorthorn plus all of the club calf bloodlines crossed up. All three have really good cattle depending on what...
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    Slick Shear a Good Move for County Show?

    I agree that it is a truer for of what is good for the industry, pounds and carcass wins. But like they said the kids that have hair worked for it. Why is it fair to take a bring a kid that works an animal a few hours a week to the same level as the kid that spends a few hours a day. I think the...
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    Show/Club Calf Producers

    Depends on what you want to spend in CO and what you want. I have been doing Business with Yearous for about 11 years now. I think his heifers make great momas and his calves are great for beginners and do place decent but I think they just aren't quite thick enough for todays show standards...
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