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My great grandfather on my mother's side farmed and raised purebred shorthorns in Missouri and Oklahoma. My grandmother left Oklahoma during the depression and dust bowl days, but her generation stayed in agriculture for many years. Her family was originally from Scotland. My grandfather on...

If I'm only moving a few head in a small pasture, I work them on foot with my dog at heel, only sending him out if any of them need a bit of extra persuasion. The dog comes back and works at heel or just in front of me and we quietly walk them the direction we want them to go. In a large...

I'm an Emergency Department/ICU RN. My husband runs heavy equipment for the county.

Dun, try National Lampoon's site that spoofs moveon.org: http://www.moveonplease.org I think you'll enjoy it.

Have you considered improving the fence around your yard? Even adding a couple of hot wires on the common fence could solve the problem without such hard feelings.

I'm not familiar with the weed you're describing, but part of your post reminded me of when the neighbors were trying to get rid of morning glory. The best time to hit that weed is after the first heavy frost. The plant is busy storing food in the root and takes the herbicide right down to the...

Keep tube feeding him until he gets over the shock of his difficult birth and has time to gain strength. If the heifer isn't threatening to hurt him, I'd leave them together. If you can milk her out a couple of times a day, do so. I had one cow that had a heifer calf come backwards. It was...

That's me . . . a day late and a dollar short! :D

I've often thought that if a second set of "doors" or something similar to the head catch were to be installed in a chute just forward of the shoulders, the cow could not move forward and back in the head catch. This is difficult to describe in words, but when a cow is in a head catch, she...

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