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Interesting. Never heard of the practice on planned abortion on young heifers. Don't know of any neighbours around here doing this either. Not knocking you, just saying I wasn't aware of the practice. So my question, how old are these heifers when they are accidentally bred? Does the induced...

You should add Manitoba to that too. I'm kind of on the fence if I want to be annexed by the U.S.A. some days yes and some days no. =D

Pecking order maybe........ I'll have to think on who was shipped the last 2 years who could have been boss. Predators......... bears are for sure out and about now, we do have wolves in the area even though I've never run into one around our place, cougars move through every now and then, but...

But but but but......... you are going to withhold wise comments? LOL Now I'm scared you'll blame it all on me. No there were no new cattle introduced.

Just trying to see what you guys would think is going on. Since everyone discussed Docility in a different thread I thought it would be interesting to see what you guys think about this. So our herd is out on 'pasture' all year round. Even in the winter they are fed out on the field, they never...

Sell the calf as bottle calf, feed up the heifer for butcher. You're welcome. =D

That's most likely what happened. It ended up a boiled egg consistency....... so you may have hit the jackpot with your answer. =) Thanks.

Yeah that's what I did, hot water from the faucet. Thought too that it might be the fat/cream, but it wasn't frozen it was a rubber like mass. It could be squished into smaller pieces but still stayed chunky. Maybe something went wrong in the freezing process. I chucked it, just to be on the...

Nice stitching! Did you use a Buhner stitch or what did you do?

Look at that. Cooking question in calving. We stored some fresh colostrum the other day. In Freezer bags, laid flat in the freezer. This morning I thawed some in warm water but found that some of it had gelled in the freezer bag, to like a rubbery consistency. Does that mean things have...

Lifting the cow. Who would have thought of that....... awesome! Now give me a better description. Attach what to where in order to lift. I'm wondering if hiplifters would work in that situation too or if they would push things together too much and make it more difficult. Ideas to ponder.

Funny enough we had a heifer yesterday ending up the same way. Calf was hiplocked and we had to aid a little bit. Right after......prolapse. Fixed her up, sugar and all, some Metacam. Not even an hour later...surprise....... Back to work, put everything back in, stitched it up. Couple hours...

All depends though how you are set up, or? Heifer bull BW under 80lb, somewhere in the 70's. Herdbull I like to stay in the 90's. Bullbreeder says he expects a cow to deliver a 100lb calf or it's a waste of time financially speaking. That may be true on a bigger scale, but once you are aiming...

Wow. I'm impressed you can do your own C-section!!!!!!! We bought 3 or 4 bred heifers sometime ago, maybe 20 years ago. Same idea, heifers bred to elephants, of course were told they were bred to heifer bull!!!!!!!! Lost 2 of them. Never again, I can say that much!!!!

Good for you, I have the defeats beating me this morning. Heifer had her first calf yesterday evening. Didn't take too long, calf was not big or problem size, calf's head was not swollen, it was lively shaking it's head, scrambling with the legs. Heifer got up after a minute or two of wondering...

Interesting to read all your comments. We have a 'river' along some of our pasture. River...hahahaha.... if the summer is dry enough you can walk across one certain spot without getting your feet wet, but if there is a lot of run off in spring it floods the whole valley and you can take a boat...

Did your vet look at that sides foot? That's maybe what I would do. Get somebody in with a trimming chute and have a look at that foot. Not knowing what causes his limping is making the decision to cull difficult. At least it would make it difficult for me. He could have sprained something in...

You can do everything perfect, check on the clock like a machine, have all your 'maybe needed' supplies ready to go and you're still going to loose some. Look at me talk. I know exactly what you are saying, the could have, should have, would have after something goes wrong is just plain a killer...

We usually go through VJV Westlock. Carcass Data was promised through BIXS years and years ago. I signed up way back when and was hoping to kill my curiosity. In all these years 50 of our animals were traceable and that was I believe about 10 years ago. Whenever I would contact them about it...

Yeah be interesting at times to know where the calves are going and how they end up doing. Where do you guys sell the calves? At what auction market?