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Some take more time than others. No negative reinforment. We train a kicker by running a stick, or poop pick, up and down the back legs until the stop kicking. We don't hit them, we just bring the stick right back to the leg when she kicks it away. They get tired of kicking after awhile, no one...

We tattoo when we brand, usually around 8 months. Unless we are selling before (like pairs), then we tattoo before they leave. The tattoo fades, so doing it at birth would not work for us. We show at national shows, and the tattoo needs to be legible when they inspect at check in. Many times we...

We just put down 57 tons of lime, paid $22.50 a ton. That covered about 30 acres of land that tested a need of 2 tons/acre (our new land we bought). Our final bill is $1270. That works out to about $40 an acre, spread.

I would put a nose blab in her until you sell her to keep her from sucking other cows.

Docility is huge on our small farm (30 cows). A perfect example today: Built Right embryo bull calf, born December. Crazy as a loon! We halter the calves every Sunday after church. We gave up on him, he literally tries to kill you if you try to settle him at all. I have so many bruises on my...

I agree. www.steerplanet.com. Tons of threads for newbies, and great people there who do that kind of thing full time.

Was it a big calf, or just not positioned right? We had one that was down for two weeks. We worked with her several times a day, and she finally got up. Took her a few more months to move right, and she was sold.

If you can watch them, and see if they cycle in three weeks, that is the cheapest and easiest. Put an estrotect patch on them. No heat in 3 weeks, then lute.

Vet looked at her and said it was likely the JG. There is no good test for JG death, other than pulling fluid from the eyeball. I did not want to incur more expense, since she was dead. The rest of that year I just went ahead of the cows with the brush hog and knocked down all the stands before...

I was never afraid of it until last summer when I lost one of my good cows to it. There was only two small stands, and we had just moved them to that section of grass not an hour before I found her dead, laying right behind a stand of JG. She was only 5 years old, in great health, nursing a 4...

Tell me why there are so many "beef" bottle babies available? Are there really that many twins or dead cows around? I don't know of anyone who breeds beef cattle, only to pull the calf and raise it on a bottle. Would I be wrong in suspecting lots of calves sold as "beef" calves are actually...

Yea, one of the reasons I hate photos. Here he is a few weeks ago, you can see he has smooth, pushed in shoulders (his head is small also). According to his EPD's, he should be calving ease too. He won the junior percentage bull show at state fair, and was reserve in his division in the open...

This bull is just under 14 months old here. He passed a bse on Friday, weighed 1305. This boy is a late June, so a little over 8 months old. Took this on Saturday, he weighed 810 pounds:

My son is the only one who drinks it. Now, I go through about a half gallon of half and half, and half gallon of heavy cream once a week.... cooking and stuff. I like the thicker stuff! lol My dad used to go through buttermilk like it was water when we were kids. I never liked the stuff. I...

Milk out here is about $3.50 a gallon (we only drink whole) at Sams Club. We go through a gallon a week.... just my son! Our cousins just 2 miles down the road sold out a few months ago. They milked 60 head, but could not make it pencil any longer. They have had the dairy for about 30...

We freeze brand, and use the dry ice and alcohol, only because it is easiest to buy and store. We get our alcohol from Macs Vet Supply in Springfield, MO. You can call and check if they will mail, but I am not sure what shipping would be. I think we pay $20 for a gallon...

SOB thanks for breaking it down. I figured the numbers might be fudged a bit, and realistically a "bargain shopper" will NEVER buy a side of beef because of the purchase price (like people who buy $35 hay for a 4 x 4, but refuse to pay $40 for a 5 x 4 that is better quality and more volume... it...

This came across my facebook feed yesterday, might be of interest in this thread...

We run 35 cows and calves on 1 acre sections. Right now, we move them about every 4 to 5 days. I come behind them with a brush hog to knock down the stems they leave (grass headed out). In the early spring, a section (1 acre) might last them 12 to 24 hours. Right now we have a lot of grass...

1. Depends on the age of the calf when she aborted; the further along she was, the longer it will take for her to come in heat. However, it can be just a few days to a few weeks if she is not nursing, even with a full term calf. We had a first calf heifer have a dead calf, and she came in 7...