Recent content by Cardinal_Crest_Shorthorns

Would be highly unlikely that lut would result in abortion in a pregnancy greater than 100 days, typically requires a steroid as well. Best chance at a diagnosis is blood sample of the cow, placenta, and fetus to diagnostic lab. Still only maybe 50/50 chance at diagnosis

Try Prime Time, its a great all around adhesive. I've personally never been a big fan of tail head adhesive, also it is really easy to get carried away with. Prime Time looks a lot more natural.

It is mostly genetic, but as he gains weight he may start flexing a little more in his pasterns. If he is stiff on the move, exercise may help.

lose the beat pulp and feed her all the grain she will eat. The "soft" look is all about body condition. I've also found it is way more common for people to under feed an animal than to over feed and get them fat. Get her fat then worry about easing up on feed. Its way harder to be playing catch...

I would much rather have a 1500 pounder that is finished than a 1200 pounder that is under conditioned. You have a pic of him?

I obviously am not saying you should never tie a calf's head up, I don't think you are getting my point. A calf that is tied up for the amount of time it takes to work and groom the calf properly every day is going to learn to stand. Maybe we run a different type of show circuit here than where...

Its kind of ironic, showstopper95, that you referred to my comment as "non educated."

I've clipped a lot of calves that wouldn't stand well, practically none of those have been my calves. Maybe I wasn't clear in relaying my point. When we are working show calves they spend a couple of hours a day tied up, typically however long it takes to rinse, blow, clip if needed, practice...

let cows be cows, even if that does work (which I doubt) what cow wants to be tied with their head up for hours at a time? Also you may fix it in that calf's phenotype but the genotype for a broken top is still there. The best thing I have found for structure is good selective breeding and lots...

Your nephew has a nice heifer, just keep pouring the feed to her and she will get along well. It wont take him long to realize its not all about winning, there are an innumerably amount of life lessons to be learned through showing livestock. But hey, winning sure is fun too! Good luck, hope the...

Am I missing something here? why would you bother with allowing registration of carrier bulls but deny registration of their clean offspring? how does registering clean progeny hurt anything? why not just test offspring of carriers and deny registration to those that test pos maybe there is some...

Hybrid vigor..... The shorties need it just as much as the angus, just as much as the herefords, just as much as the simmis, if we are making terminal animals. Why do you think we show crossbred steers? My point is not to say that you dont know what hybrid vigor is, but that angus, just like...

Wareagle Lucky_P! I actually just took a final in parasitology this morning, Dr. Hendrix and Dr. Blagburn are still goin strong!

I'm about to finish my first semester at Auburn, just wondering if there is anyone else on here in vet school.

What do some of you think about watering out of larger tubs at shows instead of buckets? We have used larger tubs (hold about 30 gallons) instead of 5 gallon buckets for years and we like that instead. Cattle are prey animals and naturally feel uncomfortable putting their head in a closed space...