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Have you gotten allot of rain this year, could be the grass is washed out and they are hitting the mineral harder? I feed loose mineral and it only has about 20% salt, the rest is mineral and vitamins, which they need more than the salt. They could be consuming allot trying to get the minerals...

That sounds like your whole problem, the cattle have not been on a routine for worming and vaccinating. Sounds like you are trying to blame someone else for you're lack of maintaining the health of the herd.

If a dog is infested with heartworm, ivomec will likely kill the dog. It's possible the same thing happened with the cattle, even the calves. You have to be careful what you do when an animal is infested with parasites.

Yep, mine went without mineral for a couple of years, and they looked like shyte, one cow in particular weighed 1150 pounds at weaning, now she weighs about 1450 at weaning, she also weans about 200 pounds more calf. Have another that weighed around 1200 at weaning, now over 1400, she also...

That is extremely high for 30 head. I had 15 head on mineral over the winter and at one point they were going through mineral like crazy in December and January, but even at that it won't be more than $600 for the year. I think what happened was the hay wasn't very good quality and it caused...

The 25 cow looks like it has excess fat deposits on it's rear, the rest look fine to me.

Last year I used Permectrin CDS and at first it was lasting 3 to 4 weeks, but towards the later part of the summer it was only lasting a week or ten days. We just started out with it again this year and so far it's working well. We may have to change up in the middle of summer to something else...

I have been using loose mineral and have seen a huge improvement in the herd, all of the cattle are in better condition than prior years before loose mineral use, and they are raising much larger calves, as much as 250 pounds larger. I see the same results with them consuming more mineral in...

Steer could be copper issue, but could also have worms if he isn't growing well, I would give them both some Safegard wormer for starters, and get them some good loose mineral.

Look at the VitaFerm loose mineral, they have an excellent product. I use the Cattlemans Blend throughout the year, except spring time we switch to a high mag, I think it's ConceptAid, but I would have to look it up. They have all the mineral you are looking for in one bag.

Chuckie, does he still have the runs? I had a young bull like that and it turned out he needed worming, apparently he didn't get enough or any of the Safegard when we wormed all of them. We wormed him by himself and it cleared him right up. I thought it was the grass or the clover, but it...

That's why I don't creep feed anything. First, how are you suppose to know which calves are actually eating feed and which aren't, and exactly how much each of the ones that do eat, are consuming each? Then there is the problem of knowing if the cow is providing enough milk, or is the calf just...

The Permectrin CDS pour on lasted about three weeks and the flies were starting to get bad again. I wonder about mixing with the current diesel fuel, they changed the formula a couple of years ago and it's nothing like it use to be, is it still safe to be putting on cattle?

That Permectrin CDS really did the job on the flies, they are gone! I noticed it has about 30% more of the active ingredients vs. some of the others. Now we see how long it lasts. I started using Safe-Guard pellet top dress wormer last year and it's done a great job, between it and the...

The flies seem to be worse than usual this year for some reason, it normally isn't much of a problem. I just got some Permectrin CDS to pour on, hope it works more than two weeks!

I've been using VitaFerm Cattlemans Blend and really like it, so do the cattle. :cboy:

How about putting her in the chute and put a heating pad around her tail to thaw it out?

I fed mine this for a week, then every other day for a week after we moved them. Don't know if they had coccidiosis or not, but figured it couldn't hurt. 50 pounds a day between 8 head, but the two calves didn't eat much of it. http://www.alafarm.com/divisions/feedfa ... ovatec.pdf

What about a feed with Bovatec, or would that be too minimal a dose?

That means one pound is just of 15 cents a day, two pounds almost 31 cents a day per head.