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Last year I had something similar happen to a young bull. His hind teats were swollen with mastitis like symptoms, swelling, heat and pus (or something). Called the vet and he laughed and said he had never heard of anything like that but said to treat it as if it was mastitis, give antibiotics...

I don't mind doing a LITTLE dickering when I'm selling cattle, but there are 2 things that are deal breakers with me and those are a) somebody making an unreasonably low offer. To me they looking for something for nothing. Make a reasonable offer and I may be more inclined to negotiate and b)...

I was going through some of my husbands National Geographics a few years ago from the 1970's and on several covers was talk of the "impending ice age". When I saw them I remembered all the hoopla about that. Makes you wonder how in the heck you go from impending ice age to global warming in a...

Probably alot of what I'm going to say has already been said but I'm going to condense it down to one single post. My husband I have raised gerts for a few years, I love them and there is no other breed I'd rather have. We have done well with them in our area. The gerts have a bad rep for poor...

You can try them but calves are smart little critters! If the gadgets are what I'm thinking about, the calves either learn to turn their heads sideways or they learn to sort of flip it up to get it out of their way and not poke mama. We've only had one to come off of a calf, usually they stay...

We've had the same thing happen here but one of the little theives was weaned too young and the other had his mother drown in a creek when he was 6 wks old so he didn't get to nurse as long as normal. We just say " they didn't get their suck out". I've had people say it happens alot with bottle...

Hey, you just ask whatever you need to ask, there are no stupid questions and ignorance is not stupidity. Some of the folks here forget that everyone was not raised like they were and were not born with their "knowledge". Just ignore their attitude. On the other hand there is some here that want...

My husband and I have done both and both have worked for us but I have to admit we do only registered Santa Gertrudis now and we certainly don't have a problem selling them. We make more off our Gerts than we did selling commercial though. IF you decide to do pedigreed cattle, the biggest thing...

Thanks Beefy!

We've been raising Gerts about 10 yrs now and they've been great. No real problems to speak of. We have one "psycho cow" which we brought into the herd last year, throws nice calves but is over zealous in protecting her calves to the point of being a danger so she's out of here as soon as this...