Recent content by 40yrold4her

Kent was by far my son's favorite judge. He spent time individually with the kids in showmanship even at the larger shows.  My son had a whitetail deer shirt that Kent commented on every time he wore it in the ring. He was a great supporter of youth and will be greatly missed, my condolences to...

This was our first year showing at the NE state fair, we showed a hereford steer. We pretty much new what the outcome would be from showing against the same competion in previous shows, we did learn alot. I did not like the showmanship competion did not get to much of a chance to show. I thought...

I started feeding one of our steers melatonin with a bolus gun morning and night. I added strawberry jelly with it and now the calf will eat the drug along with jelly out of your hand, but we are getting low on outdated strawbeery flavored jelly and have noticed some apricot in the fridge that...

Has anybody experimented with the sunglow feed hair supplement Epic?And if so how did you think it preformed compared to other products out there using melatonin. Thanks for the input.

Several years ago my dad got his arm caught between the three point arm and the cab of the tractor cutting the muscle all the way to the bone. Three operations later and some skin graphs he has recovered fully, he lost some strength in that arm  the doctor says now he is as strong as a normal...

We have a calf that is just hard to handle. She does not try to take off on you, but throws her head alot and fidgets. We have started giving her 25 3mg tablets of melatonin per day three days before a show. 35 tablets the night before the show and the day of the show and a tube of calf calm 2...

Tonight my son pulled a bone head stunt and let a show calf loose from the halter without untying the halter from the post. When the calf walked off he caught his leg in the halter and drew it tight. After alot of pulling and kicking by the calf I got the rope loose. The calf was gingerly...

In the above post from BCCC melatonin implants was mentioned, Could you please give me more information on this product I would think it would be alot easier than giving it orally every day. Thanks,

I would like to read opinions and different ways people break down there calves after shows. I do not break down after the show the family wants to go home right away sometimes out of nessecity because of work obligations. I spray adhesive areas with foam and load them up. When I get home I use...

I would like to read the advise and thoughts on using melatonin on show calves. Not grow and shine but the bottles from walmart or other places. I have never heard negative comments from anybody in person but I have never asked a vet about it. Especially would like to hear what DL has to say...

I fitted a hereford  last year with very little problems with curly hair. This year it is tottally different. I work the hair towards without exception, apply foam and final bloom,pink oil and did not pull the hair up until right before going in the ring. I got the hair straight on the hind...

The show is on December16-17th, check in is on saturday 10:00a.m. to 3:00p.m. showmanship at 6:00p.m. Two rings starting at 8:00a.m.on Sunday, one for breeding the other for market. It concerns me having one junior showing both market and breeding animals about classes entering the same time...

I have an neighbor that planted a test plot with triple stack corn. It is roundup resistant,corn and root worm resistant also. At least this is the information I have for it. It has not been approved for all of Europe just parts at this time. So the local elevator would not except it. We are...

I love helping out my son with the day to day chores and hair upkeep I work on every calf every day it is on our place, but the one thing I do not get to do is lead that calf around or from one site to another we make sure that calf has full trust in who is on that lead line.

Here in Nebraska most of the sales have there heads and tails clipped and that is it. I have visited  about 6 sales, one sale had three heifers of outstanding quality and were all being sold as market type projects, another producer went out of his way to point out the positive heifer he had in...