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Amazon sells a few. Not sure if any are better or worse. I prefer a Newberry knife. They’re easy to sharpen and have replaceable blades. Small calves I use a scalpel with a #12 blade. I can hold the handle in my teeth, freeing both hands.

Pretty hard to beat a red neck baldie. But make sure they have pigment over their eyes.

Burrr! Looks a little crowded. Hopefully if one decided to calve she went to a corner.

I had the beef science college students out last week. They learned how to pelvic measure and freeze brand replacement hfrs. Then I let them palpate some of my spring bred cows. Most of those cows are 8 months bred. The expression on the students faces when they grabbed a foot or a head for the...

I don't A.I. but I do Preg check. Not as accurate as I would like but I am as good as some vets around here. My best friend does all the A.I. but we still have someone else do our ET work.

A vet I know always said if you want them to breed cows 14 months if you don’t 500lbs. 🤣 Depending on what genetic lines. I’ve seen some of the carcass type angus flunk a BSE at 14/15 months old. Fertility is not a given.

It seems like they’re double dipping. They can change for the BSE or professional time but not both. I think our vet charges $65/BSE and a trip charge.

The theory is that they spend night time eating and then want to go lay down and relax in the morning. In my experience it seems to work best for cows that are on a TMR ration and get fed once a day. I tend to feed at just about dark. It’s not 💯 but maybe better than 75%

That’s interesting. I try and do just the opposite. I feed my cows at night and I can get most of them to calve during the day. But my spring calving cows are always close up to the buildings and we don’t have many predators that will take a live calf.

5-6’s don’t hurt anything.

I’ve never got that technical. As much as I dislike twins. I always figured that a set of twins every once in a while meant in general that I was meeting or exceeding the nutritional requirements of my cows. That’s not a bad thing.

I was just curious. Our embryologist has told me that it has to do with when you breed in conjunction with ovulation. (I can’t exactly remember and I’ll probably get it backwards but it was like XY sperm swim faster and die quicker so if you want males you breed later with in the ovulation time...

That’s interesting. Any explanation for that?

Are you using sexed heifer semen then ?

They make bigger banders. Beef in the freezer is great but it’s like a bonus. If selling high quality high dollar bulls is what pays the bills every bull calf would get a chance to grow and see how they develop. We band most bulls 6-800lbs. Then go through the bull pen again when they are...

It only takes one train wreck to make pelvic measuring seem really cheap. The year before I started pelv measuring we bred 19 hfrs to a little blk angus bull. Under the old school assumption that little black bulls make little black calves. The fallowing spring I pulled 18 calves and had 1 hfr...

I’m with @TCRanch . Not a must, but I sure do every one I keep. I bought one probably fifteen years ago. Pretty easy to use. I teach a class of college students every year how to use it.

If you could get a bull like this That would produce calves that look like this

One of my favorite quotes from a vet;” If you want a bull to breed cows he needs to be 14mos, if you don’t 500lbs”

Yeah, I am kinda curious about what her horns will turn out like.