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In the long run economically it has always shown buying cows is cheaper than raising replacement heifers, but someone needs to raise them or we will have no cows. There could be an opportunity with good consistent F1's. We have an industry with huge variances in type of cows and that has to do...

If you have never calved heifers they are too expensive for you. The real issue is they are heifers and you plan to run them on cornstalks which is fine except you have to keep them growing and will have to supplement them, calve them, and sell them. Fancy heifers will lose you money. Older...

Lepto is easily spread so should always be in the vaccination for breeding stock. Most every animal can get it and spread it by urine. mouse peas in feed, cow eats feed, cow peas on grass, etc.

Suzie, the calves are up to 120lbs. Lepto is not the problem as they are still growing. Dead calves don't grow. Lepto can cause fetus mortality, but it will occur before full gestation. I think this is definitely more a genetic problem of a female line that throws large calves bred to a sire...

Calving size is a 50/50 situation. The cow or heifer has as much to do with calf size as the bull. The best way to explain it is if you breed a horse to a donkey you get a mule. You are breeding two largely different sized animals with success. It sounds to me like your Charolais are...

Yes, your right my hair doesn't look that good. It is a little thin on top and I have a hard time getting the barber not to give me a comb over. :lol2: :lol2: That bull would have definitely died in my pasture last summer with the 100+ degree temp and 90%+ humidity.

I'm sorry I'm in a negative form but that is not a bull it's a poodle. What is the purpose of the show ring if it becomes a dog show. If you have to grow that much hair to display a bull, I feel it is not one to use. Shave him clean and then decide. What specific traits can you identify in that...

Raising livestock has some hard lessons and I am glad you butchered the cow as calling a vet would have been a waste of time. The uterus had probably already ruptured in that time frame and the cow would more than likely died anyway. Just keep posting if you have more questions and people will...

I've had that happen about five times this year trying to tag calves :o . They all have come back after i couldn't find them in the tallgrass. I believe it is natural for them to give flight and then come back to where momma left them. It sure does worry you. I've had to catch them before and...

It could be alight form of Epilepsy from having lack of O2 to brain in birth canal. i believe is the cause of that.