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Thanks so much for a great explanation! This is why I love this place. Learn something new and useful every day! And since we have some yearlings to castrate, this will be good to know. - I'm pretty sure that husband has finally decided that castrating early on is the better option. He's...

Excuse the dumb question... what is tail pinching?

Kudos to you and all your efforts!!! I've always looked for something like this. Lot's of pics/information in a central location. I also believe this should be kept pinned. Thank you for your dedication!

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Yeowch!! That's a hard pill to swallow! Hope he has some recourse against the previous owner (if that's the problem) and doesn't have to foot the bill for cleanup himself.

Was out watching the herd, as I like to do in the evening - kind of my wind down, and I noticed that the bull was not swishing his tail at flies like all the others. Matter of fact he was barely moving it at all. And then he pooped and as I watched, he didn't lift his tail to poo. So now I'm...

Just to give you all an update. I caught and penned the bull and to my surprise he let me pick up his foot (that was a first for him - and me too :shock: ) He went pretty good. He definately has something going on with his foot. There was a hole? about 1/2 inch long (I would thing the...

Can I use Nuflor?

No, there is no pond and the stock tank is simply a 100 gallon tank for drinking water. Rain?? Only enough rain to ruin the cut hay for the day, but nothing significant that I would think scratches (if cattle even get that) Foot rot?? are there other obvious symptoms that I can look for...

I know the first recommendation is Call Your Vet.....but there are no vets that will come to where I am for cattle. That being said, we pretty much fend for ourselves through books, hands on learning and you fine folks. Over the past week, I've had three head (one steer, one heifer and our...

The best reason to push air into the bottle is so that it is easier to draw the vaccine. If you don't push air into the bottle (during the first few draws) you create a vaccum between the vial and the syringe and it is much harder to draw and you can suck the vaccine back into the bottle...

If so, what did you use? Husband and I were discussing having something on hand if we needed to tranq. for any reason so I figured I'd throw the question out to the floor.

If you have to reconstitue the vaccine, I would wait til you are ready to give it. Other than that, the vet office I used to work at drew up vaccines the day before all the time. Especially if they were going to a large farm. I have pre-drawn some vaccines here at home and left them in the...

Let me start by saying: Call a vet if you have one! Secondly: I have limited knowledge (if you can call it that), but it sounds like something is going on in the respiratory. Turning away food is never a good sign in my opinion and experience. Third: Temp, Temp, Temp!! Are they kept in or...

BS= Brown Swiss. I've been talking about him in a few different threads. http://cattletoday.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33898 http://cattletoday.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34033

Easy?? What's that?? :lol: I beg for easy now and then.....doesn't ever seem to come our way though. Oh well. :roll:

Selling him is one thing, losing him because of injury/illness (something we could have maybe controlled) is a complete other issue. With our weather here the way it is today (calling for a major snow-infarction if the wind blows just right) I don't know if we will get him posted today or...

I'm sorry to say that my poor BS died today. I called a vet friend of mine to see if she could post him for me. I'm not kidding when I say that we do not have a cattle vet in our area. We're not going to do tissue samples (I don't think) I just want to see if maybe all that rough housing the...