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A little fun, a lot of (good) work, a little relaxation, a little experience, a little peace, plus I know where the meat came from

Naaaa, you are not alone. Although in my instance, Husband has his 20 projects going and I have my 20. Add to that another 10 indoor, household projects, maintaining the every day house things that includes things like feeding other people, making sure they have clean clothes and that the...

Once I saw mine were eating grain, I slowly gave less milk (2 down to 1 bottle) and then even weaker milk (more water than replacer) all the while giving them free-choice hay, pasture and increased grain.

Well I am far from an expert, but I've had a little experience with bottle feeding. Now do you mean bottle to bucket or bottle to grain? If it's bottle to bucket (pour the milk in the bucket and let him drink from there) I say as soon as you are able to get him to it. I've always had a little...

How wonderful and congratulations!!!

It's not good to have llamas in with your cattle. The worms that cattle can have/pass are very harmful to llamas. Do you always just turn out your new cattle? We were told by a few old timers that any new ones that we bring home should be kept in a confined area til they get used to us and...

Good to know that experienced people have problems too! Thanks for the boost! :lol:

To me it would be a personal decision/choice. We haven't bred any cows yet as we are just getting started, but we do breed boer goats and we're culling a doe this year after missing two years. That's my limit. If you're not going to produce, I'm not going to have a lawn ornament, I already...

Really, that's all I've been able to find. And nothing with pictures/diagrams of any sort. My search words were 'brush chaining'

Is this what you are talking about? http://texnat.tamu.edu/symposia/sculptor/18.htm about a 1/3 of the way down under "Selective Clearing" will search some more too.

I love interacting with the babies!!! It is a definite stress reliever, I was just saying watch out as they get a little older and some weight behind them.

How wonderful!!! We've had a few bottle babies and as cute as it is, after a while (and a bit of weight gain) it gets a little aggravating (to me anyway)

Well, this morning, he was still glum. No temp, no nasal discharge, no coughing, no anything as far as obvious signs of illness. So I just stood there and watched the interaction. He very slowly mosey'd over to the trough after almost everything was gone and I watched the bull push him out...

Thank you. I will be tracking him, and temp him if necessary. It was just so totally NOT like him at all today. He's always the first to the trough for grain and hay and he really just held back, head droopy and all depressed like. I couldn't even tempt him with bread, and again, not like...

by another cow, could he get very complacent? Depressed? Here's the scenario: 16 month old brown swiss is in pasture with 11 month old polled hereford bull and 11 month old black baldy steer. BS towers over both of them in height, length and width and is always rough housing with the bull/...

What a cutie, and I'm sure a sense of complete accomplishment for you.

The guy that owns the cows we just bought the yearling heifers/bull from runs two bulls together. He claims he wouldn't do it any other way because when he needs to go in the pasture, they are to preoccupied with each other to be concerned with him. Does anyone have any experience with...

Don't have experience with the XL, we just bought the callicrate (SP) and it was a cinch to use! I would (as you already plan to) boost the Tet. and with the heat, do you have flies yet? If so, I would put a healthy coating of Swat on it and keep an eye for infection. But we've done banding...

We're currently raising Boer.

Goats are crafty SOB's and once they find an escape hatch, you can guarantee they will continue to go back til you fix it. And after you fix it, they will test it and find someplace else. We've got 3 fields fenced for goats, we used 5', graduated square field fencing, with two strands of...