cowgirlxupx1034
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Wow, it's been a really long time since I've last been on here!
Bear is doing really well, he was wild for a while since he got sick in October and we had to give him 3 shots and we had to take his rectal tempeture 2 to 3 times a day. Now he's much better and I've been started brushing on him with the curry comb. He doesn't really like hay, but his trough is always full of hay. His ration of feed is 10 pounds of corn, 5 pounds of C.O.B (corn, oats and barley), and 1 pound of supplement per day. We're thinking he weighs some where between 700-850 but we won't know until the weigh in next month. He's an Angus and Maine-Anjou cross.
Heres some background info on him for those who didn't see the orginal post in october.
I bought him from the Humbles in Fort Pierre, SD. He weighed 565 when I got him and he was 7 months old in October.
Annie, my sister's calf weighs 595, we weighed her up at the local feedlot before coming home. She was an orphan. She's an Angus Simmental cross. Her ration is 6 lbs of corn per day, 3 pounds of COB per day and 1/2 pound of supplement per day to start out with.
Once it gets warmer we're planning on building a lean-to agianst our chicken-coop barn or buying a inner drum of a large round baler and dividing that for the stocker feeders and calves. In there we'll be hanging a 30" fan with 10" in there for the calves and a 24" fan in there for the stocker feeders , so we can tie them up underneath the fans and so they can lie in there when they're not tied. We're also thinking about putting up some metal pipe to tie the calves up to wash them outside of the pen, like a wash-rack. My sister and I both are planning to get stocker-feeders to show at fair and then fair '09. If we get heifers we'll AI them and show their calf. We're planning to get sheep agian, and rabbits and possibly pigs =].
The pictures don't really give the calves justice, but go ahead and tell me what you think of them! :cboy:
Bear is doing really well, he was wild for a while since he got sick in October and we had to give him 3 shots and we had to take his rectal tempeture 2 to 3 times a day. Now he's much better and I've been started brushing on him with the curry comb. He doesn't really like hay, but his trough is always full of hay. His ration of feed is 10 pounds of corn, 5 pounds of C.O.B (corn, oats and barley), and 1 pound of supplement per day. We're thinking he weighs some where between 700-850 but we won't know until the weigh in next month. He's an Angus and Maine-Anjou cross.
Heres some background info on him for those who didn't see the orginal post in october.
I bought him from the Humbles in Fort Pierre, SD. He weighed 565 when I got him and he was 7 months old in October.
Annie, my sister's calf weighs 595, we weighed her up at the local feedlot before coming home. She was an orphan. She's an Angus Simmental cross. Her ration is 6 lbs of corn per day, 3 pounds of COB per day and 1/2 pound of supplement per day to start out with.
Once it gets warmer we're planning on building a lean-to agianst our chicken-coop barn or buying a inner drum of a large round baler and dividing that for the stocker feeders and calves. In there we'll be hanging a 30" fan with 10" in there for the calves and a 24" fan in there for the stocker feeders , so we can tie them up underneath the fans and so they can lie in there when they're not tied. We're also thinking about putting up some metal pipe to tie the calves up to wash them outside of the pen, like a wash-rack. My sister and I both are planning to get stocker-feeders to show at fair and then fair '09. If we get heifers we'll AI them and show their calf. We're planning to get sheep agian, and rabbits and possibly pigs =].
The pictures don't really give the calves justice, but go ahead and tell me what you think of them! :cboy:
