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You know your horse best, some have had luck with the sweet feeds as mentioned before and I know some who have used beet pulp to add heat in the gut but my warning is to research that and weigh the consequences. Also, keep potential consequences of sweet feeds in mind on an elderly equine...

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This is incredibly interesting, thank you so much for this. 😁

Sounds like you're doing a great job! April 2018 old man winter over stayed his welcome, we calved in -20-30 degree temps with -40+ wind chill here in North Dakota. That's not normal, If I never live through a spring like that again it will be too soon. Keep up your good work, stay vigil with...

What did you switch to? What kind of cows do/did you have? What made you decide to find new siring breed?

Steamroller!!! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣You have no idea how big I smiled reading about your voluptuous ladies. I LOVE big rolly poley cows, and horses (I have a Belgian cross) and dogs (Rottweilers). I realize it's unrealistic to have a herd of 1700 pound cows though haha! I just looked at the three I lost who...

And before someone jumps my math I wasn't adding the decimals on percentages.

I feel like I need to address this post. I need to make it clear that the majority of our cows are not tipping over dead at 4 years old after becoming walking skeletons. I lost the three this year that I explained one thing each had in common, severely chilled at birth. Reviewing records I kept...

I know I couldn't. Heck, it seems pretty tough to differentiate some critters of different breeds now.

Those $3-4k bulls are the ones I get. They're lower milk numbers, and have unbraggable YW and WW ratios. Have been wondering if I should have been looking to increase those numbers. I have bull records of everything I have purchased if anyone is curious. Probably moot. I've been to several...

I have discussed doing this. We have only had them checked breedable at BANGs time. The birth weight for heifers is something I certainly have experienced some oddities. Besides the story I told earlier of our "Russian Roulette" bull that threw 80pound bull calves with heifer calves weighing...

From North Dakota here, unfortunately, have some experience with this. Are you expecting more soon or just trying to harbor the two-three week old? If just the one calf, is there is anyway you can provide a bedded shelter with lots of straw (or hay if you don't have it) that the other cows...

Where I am it sure seems to be high competition for PB Angus bulls. Average price is going to vary but often the opening bid is $3,000. Sometimes as low as $2500. Seems the bulls I always want are the top sellers in the sale and my wallet cannot touch them. 😂

Very good question, I hadn't addressed this detail. We live cover with bulls in pasture. I don't think we have the facility to AI, well, maybe we do but I don't know split beans from coffee about the process so my ignorance will surely show. It would be lovely to do that, I would love it but...

You're right, I want to have cows that raise a decent calf every year, breeds back on time and can be productive for years. Those $$$ EPD values are over my head, I've only began to understand BW EPD, Milk, WW and YW ratios... And even then, I may not grasp it well. 😂 The average weight of our...

Wow, thank you! This is very helpful 😁 One thing my FIL had said that milk past 25 will mean that the cow will have a blown out bag. I'm not sure if there is a relationship there or not as we have had cows in our herd with bottle teats. My gut says it's more of a genetic trait for udder...

Thank you for your reply, TC!! The 7 bulls I have were mainly purchased from folks that raise and sell at production sales (auction style). Two were private treaty and one was home raised (he's got an interesting story I may share someday; emergency cesarian). I need to pick up 2-3 more this...

My apologies Warren, I should have included that I'm in North Dakota in my initial message.

Thank you, Lee. I have been snooping on this forum and realize I really don't know what I probably should about cattle when reading threads but you're right, my thumb isn't bright green. In fact it's pretty gross greenish brown, but regardless, my confidence in managing all of this and my...

Oh wow, thank you very much. There are some points in this I hadn't understood quite like you put it. My herd is predominantly Angus, but I do have (and I know who they are) some sim-angus that we purchased and two purebred Simmental cows.