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Our cows frame went from a 5 to a 7 in two generations. There weight went from 1100-1300 to 1500-1700. Hay consumtion went from 3.5 to 5.7 bales per winter. I should have known better but I kept replacements from High ww & yw big framed bulls. boo boo. Cattle annie needs big cows hillbillys...

Murrary Greys & Angus are simular. Sim"mentals" are not simular to either. hillbilly

You dont want to loop the corner. You couldn't stetch it and tie it off if you looped the corner. Just pull to the corner and tie it off, leave plenty of extra. 2 or 3 ft for a later splice. Pull your top wire first as your corners will move a little. your top wire has the most leverage on your...

Texans observations are sound. You can now buy char bulls that would work in this situation. no waking up in the middle of the night with bad dreams. But, I still consider Char bulls to be terminal sires. I don't want a bunch of 1800# cows that don't give enough milk.....I hate feeding hay and...

Oceola has a good cow sale last Saturday night of the month 6:00 winter 7:00 summer. Average about 1300 head.

I agree with the last sentence, assuming his grandads last ten cows are his best. I would build from them. It's not about economics or how fast you can hit a number. It's about building a cow herd. If you buy your replacments you are not building twords something you are just rolling the genetic...

There are bulls of every breed that can fill that bill. Learn to read EPD's and buy a bull that suits you. hillbilly

It won't take long to build your herd raising your own replacements. This is 2006 [close to] by 2010 you could have 25 cows with 10 bred heifers and 12 weanling heifers. hillbilly

Bull viagra?? When I was a kid my dad had a bull that was lazy and was not doing his job. The local vet came out and gave him some blue stuff. He said to just sprinkle it on some feed. It worked! He bred all our cows then went through the fence and bred our neighbors... My dad called the vet...

It sounds like the original poster is not running 100 head per day through his chute. I think it would take near that number for me to tie up 10,000 in a chute. Most hyd. chutes are under roof, there may be a reason for that? Our local vet does run alot of cattle through his. hillbilly

If I had the know how, and the confidence to AI myself. I would, and I would expect to get better calves. Dun does the work himself with good results, if I was to do it I would have to hire it done, that makes all the differance in the world. Last spring I rebuilt a 656 International, wound up...

I raised a bunch of holstine heffiers as a teenager. I raised them in an old grade C dairy parlor they were in 20"x60" indivdual stalls raised 4" off the floor standing on expanded metal. fed in a bucket, left them in there till they would eat 1 gallon of calf treat in a 24 hr period. Then into...

They cleaned up all the small willow trees and weeds around my place. A goat can do that, Getting high prices for an animal doesn't always mean you're making more money on them. Bobg That sounds like my kinda logic!! hillbilly

OK, OK, I was joking. That's why I ended the post saying Just Kidin Merry Christmas, Randy

Your post says that you don't want fall calves. Your post says you did not pull the bull. Your post says 3 open cows.... Sell them. They should be bred even if behind the rest of the herd If still open in December you have a long wait on your next calf from these cows. If they have another...

Huge pot on wood stove for three days. Put some brown beans in there while you at it. hillbilly

Last night after dinner my fifteen year old girl says to her younger sister " Five days till Christmas! Lets Hug." She then falls down laughing and says "sometimes I'm so Gay" Should I be worried??? Just kidd'in Merry Christmas everybody hillbilly

I'm a little late getting in on this but I think you should feed her. Put a tub out at the edge of the woods, go put a couple of gallons of sweet feed in it every evening. After you can tell she is eating it have a "steak out" sit in your truck 100 yards away with your headlights pointing at...

Gelbveih cross are good cows, good milkers good maternal traits. Watch out they don't get too big. As cattle anne was saying earlier more femine heffers make better cows. If you pick a big corse boned heffer you better save back extra hay. Greed was a part of our decision to sell our cow herd...

I guess you could have an old time cattle drive.... Be sure to bring the fence cutters. Hillbilly