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My grandpa could make something from nothin. One time he built a device that would move about 3” when a cow pushed on it. He rigged it to the front of the trough and it was connected to a couple boards inside the trough. When a cow came to drink they would push on it and it would move the boards...

Have a question about the UF hay balancer sheet. What does “months of lactation” mean. Is that how many months since giving birth or months till you wean the calf or something else?

I’ve looked at those. They seem to be ready good but they wanted $11300 for one.

When you put pencil to paper it pencils out for me anyway. I have to drive 71 miles round trip to feed everyday, I only feed once a day and depending on what’s going on it may be at anytime during the day or night. I usually feed around 3-400lbs a day in rain sleet or snow. There’s wear on me...

$7500

It holds 2.5 tons of your favorite feed and dispenses any amount you want up to 26 times a day. It’s a programmable automatic feeder that’s totally self contained. Put a couple tons in it, set it, and go about your day. The company has been building these for 15 years and they don’t know of any...

Has anyone seen or used this feeder, looking for any input. It will be used for feeding weaned calves and backgrounding. Trying to cut my work load down and get setup for years to come when I may not be physically able to sling feed around.

Looks worse than it was, the peroxide foams a lot. Opened it up flushed with water 3 times and peroxide twice. Put a good ointment on it and some 300la. Will see what happens. It was getting bigger as time went on.

Stuck a needle in it today and it’s puss and it’s gotten a little bigger. We’re picking corn until it rains (hopefully Thursday) so I plan on watching it for now and see what happens.

There may be a hill or two around but I haven’t seen any. Smut grass, I have smut grass, you need any smut grass?

Sorry for not calling her a cow. She is a cow, has a calf on the ground and one in the basket. I just tend to call the young ones heifers.

I can say with almost certainly that she wasn’t vaccinated there, I give behind shoulder and it’s definitely in the wrong location for neck injection and I always work on the other side. I will stick a needle in it probably tomorrow and see what happens. Thanks for the help and I’ll let you know...

What does it mean either way. The knot is very hard to the touch.

No, I usually go behind the shoulder and if I do it in the neck it wouldn’t be in that spot and she was last worked in march.

When you put the tags on clean up the cows with a pour on to get rid of all the flies and then the tags kinda work for a month or so. Weather is the largest variable in my experience. Last year was wet and we did pour on and tags and fly control minerals and hand spray with pump up sprayer and...

About a week ago a knot just appeared on this 3 1/2 year old heifer. It hasn’t changed any since then, no signs of puncture (snake bite) or injury, it’s hard but doesn’t seem to bother her. What do you think.

I’ve always had hundreds of cattle just across the fence from me and always had flies. 2 years ago they took the cattle out and put beans in now the nearest cow is about a mile away and last year was the worst for flies and this year is about normal, meaning with effort we can manage tolerable...

Friend of mine has a big dairy and years back his highest producing cow only had 3 teats, she lost one somehow probably stepped on it while getting up.

We feed the mineral and I guess it works some. We still have flies and pretty bad too so I tell myself that they would be worse if we didn’t have it out. In the end I don’t know really.

Ok this is just preliminary and I’ve got to investigate a lot more but here’s what we did. At our house we had a colony of leaf cutter ants start devouring some of our yard plants. So I ask our ag chemical guy that works for Nuterin what to use and he suggested Fipronil, so we bought a quart...