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Estrumate, to abort her if she is pregnant or gets pregnant.

Remember when you buy those cows prone to twins that they know how to count to 2, you have to buy the smart ones. :D

Read that they should get 100 Ig in the first 24 hours, 2 50 Ig bags will cost you 22 bucks. I usually give 1, bag. That's half what they need but better than none.

Never had any luck after the first day trying to get em to accept 2, Got to pen em in a small pen asap after they are born with both of em to get em to accept 2. Think after a couple days, you got an orphan or one for the sale barn. As long as he has had colostrum, I think you are good to...

You're not using the right ink, the ink on my tags outlasts the tag itself, most of the time the button breaks and the cow looses the tag, hence we backup with metal ketcham tags in the ear. Cows get brisket tags, but retain the ear tag, as long as it stays, to identify the mother cow.

Though about it years ago, but after years of pulling bulls, your cows will calve a week and a half early to a week and a half late. What's the point in wasting time and money syncing them unless you wish to AI them all at once and be done with it. if people ar doing it to shorten or tighten...

Start with the maxi tags, the bigger the better. They look dumb on calves, but their ears grow. Use up the whole tag for your numbers, bigger numbers are easier to read. I find the liquid ink in bottles lasts longer than the pens. You just have to be carful when squeezing your bottles so as...

You got to remember there are 2 sides to genetics. A good cattleman should be able to buy a bull by looking at him and use him on whatever they are buying them for with no issues. I have never in my life bought a bull for heifers and used them on cows first, how do u know its the bull throwing...

That bull looks like what the North American Industry was trying to steer towards in the 1980s, I prefer my bulls with a little less leg and a lot more depth and thickness through the middle.

If she still gets walks away, I use a half inch thick quick chain link to shorten the hobble chain, then she just shuffles. HAHA I have left em on for a month. Saves calf getting gunshy from getting kicked, and u time twice a day putting her in to suck. Hobbles are they only way to go. Make...

If I am not sure if they nurse, I make sure they get some sort of dry colostrum, preferably in the first 12 hours. At least they have some antibodies in their system and then you can tell a day or so down the road if they are nursing and you wont have a chronically sick calf on your hands...

We give a our heifers 22 days to get pregnant, if she cant get it done on the first go she gets sold the day after we preg check 3rd week of august when she is still worth a good buck as a grass animal. Any cows not in community pastures, which is anything 5 and under and old cows get 63 days...

We are calving out 45 heifers this year, they get a 21 day breeding cycle, so since Feb 27 to March 12, we have had 42 calve. I have had to use the puller on 1 and chains for an easy pull on 3. Bred to Red Angus and Simmental bulls. All calves so far are alive, my biggest challenge is getting...

I have the best luck getting them to accept both when I bring them in as soon after they are born as possible and put her in a small pen by herself. In my experience maybe 1 in 2 will take both calves, but if one gets up right away, and the other does not, they will tend to go with one and...

I will take all the twins I can get, one year we had 6 in the first 12 cows and none after that. In general, I hope we get 10 percent plus, usually it is more like 5 to 7%. This year we are sitting at 14 sets in 135 cows calved. 13 of those sets had 2 live calves at birth, all but 2 have...

I shoot for 95 percent at weaning, with a decent year of twins we are sometimes at or over 100, but I figure anything above 90 percent weaned from numbers calved is a decent year.

Happy to get all the twins I can get, right now we at sitting at 14 sets on 130 calvings. 13 sets of those were both born alive. with a few extra groceries, and a bit of coddling, more dollars are to be made out of a set of twins than will ever be made from a single calf. I keep all my...

Don't mean to sound like an ass, but you make me feel better, none of my neighbors will admit they loose calves and I have no problem telling them I am happy if I can keep my death loss under 5%, this year I have had 2 calves get stepped on in the barn and 2 calves got layed on in an open field...

Hello all, I am new to this forum, but just thought that I would post a little info on my experience with crystalized dominion paste. I am not sure what they did to their formula, but for the last 10 or so years, their paste has had problems with crystals. I have tried Naylors paste and am not...