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Just curious - what is your vet charging for bangs vaccine this year? Is it just my imagination or did it go way up?

you might try a "bloat block" - it's a medicated mineral & supplement block they lick and it contains anti-bloat medication that might help - personally, I'd get rid of her - everyone else is right, once they are a chronic bloater, there may not be much you can do about it.

We also have automatic waterers - so what I do is isolate the calves I'm treating and turn off the autmatic water or cover it and give them a trough - it's a pain but the alternative is to give as a drench to each individual - a much bigger pain! Usually we'll see it hit a few pretty hard when...

Whole corn will go right through them - you'd be wasting your money. It needs to be steam rolled or ground to get max benefit for your dollar. I feed out about a dozen dairy steers every year and I used to feed a steam rolled COB mix but have switched to a pelletized mix. I can get a 16% calf...

We have good luck treating the water with "CoRid" it's about $85 a gallon, you treat the water at 8oz per 100 gal for a week and then 4oz per 100 gal for 3 weeks. You should be able to get it at the feed store / co-op. It's been my experience that all cattle probably have the bacteria - but...

Our cows have historically been pretty docile - if I get a heifer that acts high headed she'll more than likely go down the road. It just makes good business sense to work cattle in a calm, quiet manner to avoid unnecessary stress i.e. weight loss. I think alot depends on your working...

Even if you could shoot them with that thing and not scatter them into 6 counties, how could you possibly keep track of which ones you've hit and which ones you haven't - most of us have herds that all look pretty much the same! I can't usually tell one from another without getting a look at...

For years we had a cow my sisters and I raised on a bottle - she was very much a pet - even in later years when she was raising her own calves - she'd come when you called her - when we'd go to bring them out of the mountians you could just call her and whistle, and pretty soon if she was within...

that's a small field of irrigated grass hay we take one cutting off of for the draft horses, it's a brome,timothy and orchard grass mix - every year I keep back about 8-10 steer calves, some that were early weaners and then I buy some holstein steers from a hutterite dairy near here, and once we...

This is a picture of a steer calf I bought last year from the hutterite dairy near here, I just ran across it and it made me smile - he's in someone elses freezer now and they're the ones smiling!

Thanks Luvabeef - how'd you do that? for Alacowman - I've lived here all my life and probably take the scenery for granted - but yes, it is nice - I've never been to your neck of the woods but I'm sure it's very nice as well - you get alot more rain that we do here - so I bet it's nice and...

well, obviously I didnt' get this quite right - I thought the photos would show up and not just the link?

here are a couple of pics of some steer calves we have here at the house. Just a sampling of a colorful crowd. These were some early steers who's mothers were pretty old and had other issues that caused us to wean a little early and ship the cows. These were mid January calves and we shipped...

They just initiated the same thing in Montana.

Why are you going to wait til close to weaning time to cut him? I'd do it now - no point in waiting, any setback will be greatly reduced by cutting him sooner - we cut ours at branding - they're usually about 2 months old.

I have to admit - when I first read the topic, the mental picture of "banding people" did cross my mind! Ouch! That being said, I have to side with Northern Rancher - we cut em - we usually have about 200 bull calves a year, never had an infection - never lost a calf, never had a stag, and I've...

New alfalfa like the first or second year it's been in, is particularly hazardous - not to say you shouldn't feed it - but you just need to be careful, it has a much finer stem and the leaves are a much greater percentage of the total feed - and so particularly potent. An older crop is heavier...

I agree - see it every day! a few years ago we had a couple of lions hanging around - called fish & game, tried to get them to get a trapper and dogs out - no luck - found out it was a pair with cubs (oh yippee) and that was the last we heard from fish & game - But you know, all of the sudden...

I heard this morning now they're not going to slaughter the bison because they worry about what people will think because this bunch contains about 100 calves - So they're just going to try to haze them back into the park. What they don't think about is the bison have outgrown the park - if they...

Thanks, I looked back in my records and found that this was the first time this particular cow has been bred by this particular bull - won't do that again - we put her in with a different bull this year. Like I said, we've had the cow for a while - she was with a small lot of bwf heifers we...