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WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Government investigators looking into the latest case of mad-cow disease in the U.S. won't likely be able to find the source of the cow's infection, a Food and Drug Administration official said Thursday. Stephen Sundlof, director of FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine...

Highland Girl: The pics. looked like something my dog contracted when I was a child. I accidently cut his tail with the lawn mower, just the tip. It was a little cut compaired to what it could have been. Anyway, it got infected and it looked like you pics. I took him to the vet and he said it...

I always pour my cattle at the end of December and it works for me. I understand the grubs don't get to the back until early spring.

Any grass hay with protien levels above 12 % is fine. Grasses offer protien as will as energy. Alfalfa offers protein with little energy. That is why the dairymen here in Wiscosin grow alfalfa to be mixed with the corn for feed in a confinement program. The corn offers energy while the Alfalfa...

I had three bull that I was puting in a sale. When I had the BSE done the bulls turned up with Blue Tongue that is spread by deer drinking from the waters. It made the bulls temporary sterile. I had to pull them from the sale. In a couple of months they checked out fine, too late for the sale.

If many of your cows come up open I would call a Vet to do some investigating as to why they are open. One can spend a lot of money on vacantions and not get the right one. Also, I think treating interenal parasites in the fall is beneficial. At lease you will not be feeding the worms and the...

Sorry to tell you that you have a "Free Martin" heifer calf. Most bull/heifer twins will produce a heirfer that will not reproduce. Good Luck

Now Dun, she is right about the Brahman influence. The Brahman influence will reduce your maintenance cost and will more then offset the dock at the sale barn, if any. My 25 years experience only gave me about six opportunties to assist a cow in calving using Brahman influenced cattle, mostly...

I supect that they mean 70% of cows exposed to the bull, not bred by the bull. Cost and calving numbers should be figured using cows exposed. That is the only way to account for the cost of the open cows.

I would at least move the hay rings to fresh ground away from the infected area. I always feed my cattle in a different spot each day, especially during calving season.