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You didnt ask, and I don't like to poke into your business, but I have a few minutes. If it's broomsedge. It's usually an indicator of 1st, Low PH, or 2nd, low Phosphorus. There were so many poultry houses around here years back, phosphorus is rarely the problem. It tends to become present here...

Also depends on what they are grazing. Mine are on annuals right now. Temps in the upper 80's, and the white, cream, and red cows are out eating. The black cows with a little ear are out there too. The others are laying by the water wishing they had shade. 2-3 more days and it will cool down a...

Keep a small amount of grain out until he starts eating it. Then keep all he will eat. Keep water available... Yes he's drinking milk, but he needs more than just milk to do well. Bottle babies do sleep a lot, but it wont be long before be is hammering your knees and thighs trying to find some...

Looks like fescue, looks like it has stubble from brushhogging. If its fall growth it should be pretty good. Since you have calves on cows, I'ld do the forage test, and start at 5# per adult cow every other day. Watch condition. They'll waste 50% of jt if you dont use wire. Just start at a water...

Short answer, forage test. Long answer, view your other thread. Check a few of those boxes and people can help more.

If they are dry cows, it is a fescue base, and has grown all fall, you should be about to get by without supplement. You can take a sample and have a forage test done. If they are lactating, you might need supplement. Again, if it is fescue, the protein should be fine, the energy might be...

This was a Area she raised English Mastiffs in, I think the original pens were 40'x10ft with 10x10 inside that chickenhouse. Maybe 12 pens, maybe 14. I think she bought 3 8ft gates and scrounged a 4 and 12ft gate. We pulled the pipe we didn't need and re-drove them to make alley for the cows on...

I work a lot of cows in other people corrals. Side money since I quit the payroll job. Most set-ups use a form of tub or crowd gate. Do your homework on that. A sweep can be great or something you hate. The quickest way I have found to make a crowd gate worthless is to have the alley on 1 side...

Pretty much what i'm looking at. Might change the Bud box, alley, and portable alley details.

Going to be starting a new corral soon on a farm that doesn't have one. Clean slate, farm doesn't even have a panel catch pen. The corral I've got drawn up has a holding pen 56x56, which is bigger than the 1 here at home, and it will hold 100 cows. Should have plenty of room for growth if I get...

I wouldn't mess with the horns unless they will be around a while. And unless you are going to keep having horned calves, (which is sounds like you've remedied) I wouldn't invest a way to dehorn. My vet would do it for 10-12/head, or that's what they charge at the barn when I bring stockers...

I'm currently under quarantine. Don't assume the vet knows what he's doing. Paperwork was filled out wrong, now I get to pay another vet to come out and run them down the alley to write down calf hood numbers. I will say, "They" have been pretty darn reasonable on the time frame. This happened...

My vet has suspected some Anaplasmosis problems here. The way I understood it. The anaplasmosis causes a shortage of oxygen to the brain causing a change in behavior... That's a step in progression somewhere between slipping a calf and the cow dropping dead if you try to run her very far to a...

I've seen several different models and types, I've seen better trajectories on compound bows than some of the dart guns. Darts are heavy, You'll have to be reasonably close. Good luck.

Your Vet should have the dart gun and drugs to sleep and revive. Just make sure she is calm when you dart her, and don't be surprised when she trots off. Don't chase her, just let her lay down at her own pace. They also don't go to sleep, they just lay down and are out of it. Probably going to...

I had 49 Cows left in January. Bought 36 Bred heifers in February, 23 Bred Younger cows in March, and 10 Heifers ready to breed in April. Some are starting to integrate, some are still in their original groups, especially 7 of the 10 young heifers. They are always by themselves. It's taking a...

I don't know how busy that road is or how many driveways you have to go by. I do know that a 3-4 day old calf will cover a mile with mamma no problems. After the first or second move the cows know whats going on, convincing the calf crop every year can get to be a pain. I don't even need a lead...

My general rule around here is. "Cattle can pay for themselves or Cattle can pay for the land, but they won't do both." Easiest way to break into cattle farming for me was to rent the land, take out a cattle loan, and work in town. I always kind of thought stockers would be the way to go so I...