I have heard so many things about when the best time is to move your cows. I heard move them 72 hours after AI and I I've heard don't move them for 20 days. Opinions on what is the best time to move them after AI?
Looking for possible places to graze our show cows/calves this summer in Colorado. Not a large herd. About 20 head. Please email me if anyone knows of a place they can go :)
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This year we are wanting to change things up. We want to stray completely away from natural service so we wont have to deal with the clean up bulls. What is the best way to go about doing back to back AI'ing and AI'ing the cows that didn't take the first time again? Can someone give us somewhat...
This great heifer calf was born yesterday and was super alert and everything looked great today she will not get up and when I pick her up her muscles are extremely tight. Her breathing is getting heavy and her temp is 99.5. I know it is not structure issues and we are just about postive it's...
With our club calf herd we always have our club calf sale the weekend before Halloween. This year we will be going online for the first time
so we want to push the calves on grain earlier than we usually do. We usually wean at the end of July and halter break all through June
and July and push...
I was wondering if anyone had any experience with lubrisyn and knows if it works? I have a calf that is amazing out of Walks Alone and he walks out great when he's been moving for awhile but when he first gets up it seems like he ligaments are a tick tight. He slightly turns out one front leg(...
I'm sure its been mentioned on here 100x but I'm a little confused. I heard the club calf bulls would be there the 17th through the 20th but now I'm seeing on facebook that some of the bulls such as Tomahawk Chop are already there on display. What day is the best day to go see all the Lautner...
I'm almost done with college and really enjoy the show cattle industry but I am having a really hard time finding anywhere to work that doesn't already have enough help. I'm in Colorado does anyone know anybody that needs help with their show cattle or doing really anything?
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Here is an awesome sale we are having this weekend. If you are in Colorado you should really check this one out, and if you are unable to make it you can always have a representative bid for you. If you are interested in any other pictures of the calves shown or not...
I was wondering if anyone knew of any jobs in the show cattle industry or in the animal science field that were possibly available in Northeastern Colorado? I currently go to NJC and I'm looking for a job that relates to something I really care about like show cattle while I'm still in school...
Golden Flo, Glucoat, or Final Cover? My steer has stomach ulcers which one will finish him not hurt his ulcers and make him more aggresive towards eating???
My amen steer has stomach ulcers, the vet told us to put a tablespoon of baking soda on his feed in the morning and it has been working great for a week now. He just recently started to back off grain again... is there something stronger than baking soda that can keep him on feed till fair? I...
My Amen calf is extremely picky about what he eats... he eats lots of hay and drinks plenty of water but has not been eating our show feed ration. We have tried switching him to Show Corn, adding regular flaked corn, addding Karo syrup and Molasses,adding alfalfa and winning fill we have tried...
I have an amen calf that has always been a picky eater he doesnt like anyone watching him eat and is off and on with feed. He got a stomach bug this week and wasnt eating any hay, grain, or water now he is a
lot better and is eating hay and drinking but he will not touch the grain and its been...
I am doing a 4-H Demonstration on clipping and using that new chart Stierwalt made as a reference.... I planned on going over materials needs and all that stuff but is there any ideas on how I could teach the kids how to clip hands on without an animal? any creative ideas out there?!
Its been really nice up here in Colorado and my steers are starting to shed hair:/ Ive been rotto fluffing their legs but their body hair is still shedding... im hoping to start up the cooler soon but is there any other ideas on how to get the shedded hair back and keep it on???