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You could have the opposite problem; we have three large animal vet clinics within 7 miles of home. I wouldn’t call any of them if I had to. We use a vet over an hour away. He semen tests the bulls and drop ships script drugs. I do everything else.

When you say Steer Stuffer this is what comes to mind Snidely steer stuffer . As far as a self feeder goes they’re a Cadillac. Your gains should increase and you intake may actually decrease a little as they top out. There are lots of good ideas and plans available to build or repurpose...

Corn silage, rye/haylage, wet gluten, Purina cow balancer pellet with their mineral built in. All in a TMR ration.

I 100% agree. I use florfenicols for a lot of things, just hadn’t had much luck on myco. Back when we fed a lot of cattle we switched back and forth. Some years or even groups responded better to Nuflor and some Baytril. And when they didn’t work I would use A180 and Exenel in combination.

You have good luck with nuflor on Myco? Interesting. I couldn’t get any results I was happy with. I started using Advacin ( the old A180) with good response.

Your cows take pills better than my kids! 🤣

I prefer cutting. My $20 Newberry knife has paid for itself several times. That being said I do see where banding has a place. I bought a Calcrate bander a couple years ago and probably band 40 six to nine weight bulls a year.

There is a real art to reading bunks and predicting or adjusting a ration. I feed with a TMR wagon with no scale. Old school. I know how many pounds of each ingredient my cattle are getting. But anyone else would be screwed if they had to feed for me.

The big feed lots feed on days not quality. The mid west tends to feed to quality instead of days because we have almost unlimited feed available. If you turn them on at five hundred pounds you can get some hfrs to be over finished at 1,000lbs. But unless she’s going in the freezer you’ll get...

They were sixty years ago. I have no desire to go back to belt buckle cattle. 1,400lb cows that raise 1,450 lb strs. That will grade high choice/ prime at 18 mos work just fine.

To far for me to come, but I applaud you for trying to help educate your customers. Well done!

Well her udder is full so I’m guessing she’s nursing a calf or just weaned one. She’s probably just sucked down from working hard raising a baby. If you have a separate lot sort those thin cows off and feed them some extra. She’s just skinny from doing her job.

Stacking vaccines all in one place is never a good idea. You can cause some swelling and pretty sore necks. I was given some fall calves (300lbs) their first round of vaccines recently. Including the multi-min 90 they got five shots. Three on one side and two on the other. No ill effects. I...

Temp them. Then hit them with both nuflor and bannimine. In the old days we would put the whole group on Ayreomicen 4G crumbles for 10 days. Can’t easily do that anymore.

ViraShield 6 VL5, 7way. That's bare minimum. My breeding age cattle also get multi min 90, wormed and poured. Unless it’s fly season or you have a problem, the pinkeye is kinda pointless this time of year.

That’s broke.

Does it stink when she poops? Not like cow 💩 but like a dead roitting nasty smell? Older cow? Johnies is the first thing that comes to mind

Typically not too worried. Feeder calves it really doesn’t matter. Breeding stock I’m a little more cautious.

Allflex 25MR2 is my go to. Most vaccines are a 2ml dose. You get a fuller pull with the 25 vs the 50ml syringes. I still have several Roux syringes. I’m the only one who likes them so we don’t use them anymore.

(BVD 1 & 2, IBR, PI3, BRSV) Pasturella, and Haemophilous sommus