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<blockquote data-quote="Kenany Farm" data-source="post: 1333778" data-attributes="member: 24230"><p>If you want to have couple of cows to raise their steers for beef you should start with couple steers first to learn the trade. When you feel confident enough, buy three mature bred cows (they know what they are doing) instead of raising them from young heifers, a lot of work and many problems may occur. If you only have 2 or 3 heifers/cows you don`t really need to own a bull, as it is a lot of responsibility to keep for breeding just 2, so i suggest you buy bred cows, and when it is time to breed back rent/lease a bull from a good reputable breeder to guarantee that there will be no health issues.</p><p></p><p>Ringworm will go away on its own, and the cattle from there on are immune from getting it again, scratching it to apply iodine will spread it, and if you did it in a barn, it will remain in the wood pours and will come again to infect other young cows in the future.</p><p></p><p>An advice, always pen new animals that come to your place for at least a week, so you can monitor them, and give them medical help if needed, plus they will calm down much better than being dumped in a new pasture. One more advice, if you ever buy a cow or steer or a bull that is mean, you don`t put up with it, make that animal grow wheels.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kenany Farm, post: 1333778, member: 24230"] If you want to have couple of cows to raise their steers for beef you should start with couple steers first to learn the trade. When you feel confident enough, buy three mature bred cows (they know what they are doing) instead of raising them from young heifers, a lot of work and many problems may occur. If you only have 2 or 3 heifers/cows you don`t really need to own a bull, as it is a lot of responsibility to keep for breeding just 2, so i suggest you buy bred cows, and when it is time to breed back rent/lease a bull from a good reputable breeder to guarantee that there will be no health issues. Ringworm will go away on its own, and the cattle from there on are immune from getting it again, scratching it to apply iodine will spread it, and if you did it in a barn, it will remain in the wood pours and will come again to infect other young cows in the future. An advice, always pen new animals that come to your place for at least a week, so you can monitor them, and give them medical help if needed, plus they will calm down much better than being dumped in a new pasture. One more advice, if you ever buy a cow or steer or a bull that is mean, you don`t put up with it, make that animal grow wheels. [/QUOTE]
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