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Do they have a class in the southwest somewhere? Arizona or surrounding states?

I have had two WA calves so far, the first was 10 days late and 80lbs. the second was 15 days late and 105lbs. I began to question whether the calf would be WA or the angus clean up bull, but the only options were WA, 105lbs and 15 days late or angus 105lbs and 6 days early. the calf is hairy...

My neighbor has a few cows turned out on a couple of sections. A couple of weeks ago he found one of his cows down and she couldn't get up. He took her to the barn and called the vet, the vet said she was a goner but gave her a steroid shot just in case. After a week of trying to keep her alive...

I have never used lard and I always wondered if MTG would grow leg hair. it sounds like you have tried it, what did you not like about it?

A google search revealed an article by dr. Beeler in which he says that the NH mutation originated in a bull called GAR Precision. He also stated that both parents of the bull tested clean of that defect. Every animal tested that resulted in a positive test traced back to that bull. It is an...

Thanks for the help. I will consider all her offspring terminal as i don't want NH in my herd.

I have an angus cow that is a NH carrier. the question is, if i breed her to a clubby bull that is not a NH carrier will the calf be clean? Her last three calves have been angus. two nice hiefers and one bull calf that was born dead.

His picture looks great. What kind of cow is he out of?

While rummaging through my Dads tank the other day we found some old angus semen that he said was quite popular in thier day. the bulls in question are Scotch Cap, Paragon and Broker. Are any of you familiar with these bulls, and is there a place for them in todays show calf genetics

Last year we lost 6 calves out of 22. some were aborted and some were born early but wouldn't get up and suck. we tubed them etc. but couldn't make them want to live. we were feeding sweet corn stalks that were baled up. we sent tissue samples to U of A but they couldn't  determine the cause of...

ive always wondered why this show doesn't attract more people. while the rest of the country is buried in snow we were walking around in shirt sleeves. The weather was beutiful the facilities are nice and it just seems like a fun little show.

if lepto cannot be passed through the semen why is ABS worried about it? is it a common practice at all collection facilities to test for lepto?

i have a dubai heifer out of a meyer/angus cow. she wieghed about eighty pounds (guess) and looks really nice. about two weeks ago someone posted a picture of two irish whisky  et calves. my heifer has almost identical markings to the black heifer with the splash of white on her forhead and...

what are his calves birthweights?

ours is out of a carney man cow. my nephew is going to show him at the county fair in sept.