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I flushed a spotted Heat Wave cow to him and got 7 calves out of the cross.  One red and white heifer, a few solid blacks  but majority are brockel face calves.  I have not seen them in a while but a couple of them were pretty cool.  They look good enough I might do the flush again this year.  I...

I have never been able to tell for sure whether I am dealing with a viral or bacterial pneumonia.  I have heard how high the temp is can give you an idea, not in my experience.  If you have an individual animal just treat with an antibiotic, a little different if you have a group of calves that...

I have used alot of different chutes but the one I have been most impressed with has been the titan equipment.  I purchased a Titan hydraulic chute a couple years ago and other than a slight cylinder problem with the neck extender I have had not any other problems.  I have used a lot of For Most...

Septic joints (swollen infected joints) develop as a result of bacteria in the blood aka as septicemia.  The most common cause of septicemia is indeed "navel ill" but that is not the only way bacteria can get into the blood.  In a calf that is as young as the one being described with swollen...

Being a veterinarian, sleep is not easy to come by that time of year anyways.  Fortunately for me/unfortunate for my dad, I am currently 350 miles from the herd so I am lucky.  Might be taking some vacation time for a couple of weeks though so I can come home and help.  Interestingly, I just got...

I have not seen a three day CIDR synch protocol but I did use the "new" 5 day CIDR program.  Give a shot of GnRH and put the CIDR in, pull the CIDR 5 days later and give a shot of prostaglandin.  Eight to 12 hours later give another shot of prostaglandin then breed 72 hours after pulling the...

We had 30+ calves out of Gigolo this year and we picked up another 40 units to use this year.  Most of those were out of first calf heifers but did him on some cows also.  He worked on about everything we used him on.  This year we are going to breed the second calvers to him just to manage our...

We don't have many Money Man calves but have alot of Gigolo Joe calves.  Gigolo would get my vote!

I would agree with DL on this one, not sold on Recover use in cattle.  EPI works better for anaphylactic type reactions but could be used.  Might have a hard time getting EPI because EPI has replaced Sudafed in meth labs. Have heard of law enforcement stopping in to vet offices and letting them...

I don't have the actual numbers in front of me but I think we ended up with 30 or so (40 AId GJ) Gigolo Joes calves out of our heifers and probably averaged 75 pounds for a birth weight.  We assisted one heifer (Ali) and I believe that calf was around 85 pounds.  All our Ali heifers had Gigolo...

Just a personal experience with Smokin Joe, purchased 7 heifers bred to him and the first one came out 126 pounds >:(.  Had to help her out but luckily did not have to cut her.  Out of the seven heifers the last one calved the other day and had the smallest calf, 90+ pounds.  I am not going to...

Well our heifers should be about done having AI calves and ended up with around 20 Joe calves.  All about 70-80, born unassisted, but we did get some color on them.  have not seen the calves yet, hopefully this weekend.  The other heifers that calved by AI sire were bred Image Maker (angus)...

Nuflor has worked well for me in the past.  In theory pen should work as well.  I have not had much luck with Draxxin or Micotil for these, dex can be given but careful with that. 

I hope Joe works on heifers!  I heard he did so I bred half of our heifers to him, the other half were bred angus.  The hiefers that look like they have really big calves in them are all bred angus.  The calves are all due the 17th of Feb so I should start seeing them soon.