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CP, what type of tail chalk do you use? We've used Paint Stik's before, but that's it.

Sorry to hijack this thread. But I know that heat detection is my weak point. CP, I can understand some of the signs you mention from a dairy perspective, but now that we've sold the milk herd and have our angus cows, they are not quite as hands-on as the holsteins were. We are only...

CP, What advice would you give a new guy on how to improve heat detection. We use Kamar patches and the 12hr rule when setting up to timed AI, but I still feel that we lack in the heat detection part. When we were milking, my dad would spend 25 min in the morning and 25 min in the early...

We are transitioning from dairy to beef. We 12+ years we've had about 15 black angus, calving year round. pulled the calves off at about 5 months and placed with our diary heifers (Why 5 months, I have not idea). Since I've been managing the transition, we've up to about 120 brood cows, and...

Anybody ever feel the slightest bit bad for the cows and calves when you wean them off? We weaned a few yesterday, and I was building a few new mineral feeders beside one of the mama pastures. Cows running around bellowing looking for their calves. Good thing in only lasts for a day or so...

We've got Selective, Bextor, and Progress in our tank right now. Sounds like I need to look at Limelight and 5050.

We also hit a bad AI spell and cleaned up with a bull that threw some big big calves. I didn't want to give anyone trouble, so we've kept them and sold them a few at a time. Those holsteins that have stayed around are now all exposed to a BA bull.

We've had trouble finding people around here with good money to buy the $1800 holstein springers.

We quick milking a couple of years ago and are transitioning from Holstein to Angus. We're going to have about 50 100%AI holsteins bred to black angus bulls. We've also got about 60 black angus females. Am I asking for trouble from the holstein side? Or can I just keep using good bulls / AI...