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obviously they are very good in the show ring.  How are they as cows. Looking to breed a few thick made limousin cross  heifer or second calvers to a low to moderate birthweight bull that will give them the square hip and eye appeal.  My daughter will probably only show one or two though so...

My daughter didn’t “just” show a calf this year…….. For a long time people outside of the livestock community have watched as kids show calves and marveled at how much it must cost to have a calf like that, or why would anyone invest so much time in something that is just going to be butchered...

How long to see results with these....  we have 2 and a half weeks to show and steer is tightening up some in the middle

So, the first year for my daughter to show calves next year.  When I was a kid we pulled my calves out or the lot the day before county weigh ins, shrunk them overnight and went with it.  Trying to do it a little different for her and the girl we are helping.  Weighing are in about 75 days...

I know I got an email for a bracket contest but can't find it now.....  Anyone have the link?

Sim/Lim X heifer  Aied to Rumor mill.    NO way she is not the AI date, she was not with Bull for 50+ days after AI service.....  Relatively large framed heifer, due 2-6 using 283 days so realistically probably a few days after that.  Palped the calf and it doesn't feel Huge.  If I was...

I know this topic has been beat to death, and there are a WIDE range of causes from other time commitments on todays kids to price of just a sale barn calf, but I went to our county fair this morning to see only 55 calves (by my count about 28-30 kids and about 15 families)...  down a lot from...

We have been synching groups of four to five the past few weeks.....  About one group a week.  There are a couple cows in the AI pen that have not calved yet.  One has stood, full fledged tail to the side standing with each group we have cycled.  The first group I palled her and the calf is...

A building with a walk in cooler in Red Oak Iowa was bought and is being torn down.  They are selling the walk in cooler.  Might be worth checking into if some one was looking for a cooling unit.  Has to be out of there by the weekend

You have a cow, good cow, clearly above average in your herd, whatever that means to you wether that be a herd that is selling five figure steers every year or one that supplies some local kids with county fair calves.....  She is above average for your herd.  Would you rather..... 1) stamp...

Saw this this morning, the though literally moves me to tears....  I apologize if t has already been posted. http://kfor.com/2014/03/11/prague-sisters-lose-both-parents-in-48-hours-ffa-community-rallies-behind-them/

Spent some time at the sale barn today..... Cow market was all over the place.  The top end 4yo fleshy third stage black cows were just under 2000.  A little less then what they have been.  You don't have to dip much from "prime" cows and you are looking at 1300 buys a little older cows, or...

How long do YOU wait before pulling a calf?  What are your cues? Friday night we had a heifer that was bred to Stetson, a CE Limousin bull, due Monday, start Pre labor around 6:30 or so.    She wasn't pushing hard  at any point.  Just kinda laying there in the stall with her tail out...

Here is my situation.......  My dad and I have about 60 Limousin based commercial cows.  Last two years we have AIed heifers to Power 2 Change, and have five pretty nice heifers out of him that will be AIed this spring (two I think are pretty darn good). Also have a few angus based (Bismarck...

Tomorrow dad and I are gonna set poles to build. A 16x48 add on to his shed to use as a calving shed.    Plan to have a four foot alley down the long side to let pairs in and out, plan to have the maternity pen and three other 10x12 pens in it.......    Talking about the floor, dad was thinking...

This morning I have the two kids for a little while, not long enough Togo get anything done before I have to go to work, but long enough to sit and ponder......  This years calf crop turned out pretty well, considering we were left scrambling for bulls when our two main bulls did not test out...

A post on another thread got me thinking on this...... how much of a direct relationship would there be between say a measurable stat such as (hip height-height of umbilical)/ hip height  to the the weaning weight of the cow's calf? I think it is pretty widly believed that the relationship...

Walking through the barn at our county fair it was Interesting to view the cattle......  The show is not overly competitive, there are a couple families that have clubby steers or heifers that will compete for the trophies, but a majority of the home raised and even purchased cattle are calves...

Have a calf that is almost five weeks old......  Has had scours, or at least very runny stools since it was three or four days old.    Was defiantly scours at first, now she is just way loose almost white poop.    She has been three days in the vet with IV, we have done pills no milk and...

A long time ago, dad read an article that talked about the position of the swirl in a cows face hair and disposition.  The theory was that embryonic development the area of the brain for temperament happened at about the same time that fur orientation was being determined and that the lower the...