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One of the best steaks I ever had. You can't buy meat like that around here. Everyone is impressed with how it turned out. It makes me feel good to do something right once and a while. :D

I only butcherd one of them a couple of days ago, I will keep you posted. The other was traded for hay and cash, he was going to keep her and have her bread by his little bull. Last I saw she was running around happy and smiling, I've had her penned up since I bought the 2.

I've owned a few cows for 8 years now without any real troubles. Bought a decent bull, kept hay in front of them, easy beans. Guess I was lucky, it seems like when I started going out and buying different calves and cows is when my problems started, from my lack of experience. Buying sick calves...

I just think that if I would've sold both cows for $2 pound hanging I could have made some money. Thats if I could've found a sale for it, but thats not what my intentions were anyway. If the meat is bad, I won't get a bad name for it, I'll just have to deal with it my self.

We butchered the steer today, and his hanging weight was 430 pounds. So if I were to sell the meat for $2 a pound it would come to $860. The heifer I sold to a neighbor that really likes her because she is small, for $250 and 200 square bales of clover/timothy hay. He had the hay listed for $3 a...

I was hoping with the new server and everything, that the problem would be fixed, but it does it to me all the time.

I was going through some serious withdrawls. When I clicked on the view newest threads, it still didn't work, it said that search was unavailable at this time, maybe it was because I wasn't logged in. Ya, it works now, thanks.

Thanks everyone again for all the support. I guess even vets have to pay big money to learn some of the stuff I've learned over the last couple of days. When things like this happen, and I'm sure it will happen again, I try to evaluate what I'm trying to do here. What are my goal's and what sort...

Thanks everyone for your advice and words of encouragement. You kind of wonder how many times a guy can get kicked in the balls before he finally goes down, I guess I can take a few more licks. So do you think that there may be some sort of selenium-deficiency? That may be one of the problems...

She died. Weak calf coming from a weak cow. Too much, too little, to late, who knows. Maybe I should have taken the calf when I first noticed the cow was down, maybe the dex would've helped, maybe, maybe, maybe. Hate to think that I should've dispatched the cow and forgot about the baby, but I...

She's not standing at all, she's too weak. I think that if she doesn't show any sign of improvment today, I'm going to do the human thing and put her down. She get's pretty bloated just laying there so I have to roll her around, she burps alot then, but still bloated.

I can't find Bose anywhere, is it a complex vitamine,do I have to get it from a vet? Hindsight 20/20, I should have gave to cow a shot of dex like we were talking about. Even though I was'nt sure when we were going to do the c- section, but I think even the 14 hours that she would have had the...

Vet say's to try to get her some electrolits in her, maybe some vitamins. Not much more that I can do now. Instead of giving her 1 quart of the milk replacer that I can up it to 2 quarts at a time, and some of the guy's even give them a whole gallon for their first meal, I always thought that...

Still no change with the calf, with the heat blanket on her we have her temp up to 100. She wouldn't take a bottle last night, she would try but acts lie she can't breath if she upright and sucking, she was knawing at it from the side, but wasn't getting any milk. so we tubed her agian last...

She's up to 97 degree's now. I went in there and she picked her head up a little and her ear's are up and moving around. Seems like she getting stronger, and she was sucking on my wifes fingers. I think I'll give her a quart of milk replacer later on and she should be good for the night.

Thanks for the compliment's guy's. The calf is still alive, but she is shivering. My wife is going to get an electric blanket to get her warmed up. I havn't taken her temp. yet but that will be the next thing. I just gave her an other quart of colstrum, tubed her again. She is very weak, we are...

Looks may be decieving. :D Of couse I would feel a lot better about myself if the calf makes it. But it is what it is, there's only so much that I can do about it.

Well were not out of the woods yet, the calf is really weak and I would be surprised if she makes it. Her breathing is really labored and she kind of moans when she breaths, and yes it is a girl. To bad, I wanted a bull. She appears to be plenty big enough, I had all I could do to carry her to...

I gave her a dose of Ivromec pour on when I got her last October, I understand that some people don't believe in the pour on, I guess that's an argument for some other time. Thanks for the words of encouragement everyone, and the good advise. The slaughter guy will be here at 9 o’clock and is...

I gave her 4 pounds of corn, she ate maybe 3 if that. I offered her water today, and she didn't take any, and agian tonight and she didn't want any. She didn't want any hay either. I've watched a few c-sections on u-tube so I'm familiar with the procedure. The only thing is they kept the cow...