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you can try Simms trucking from Otis Colo.    They haul hogs to TX and might be able to fit this in on the way back in a 18 wheeler if that could work for ya. Philip Simms    970-597-0247

On several occasions, I have seen cows that stood to be rode and thought they were in standing heat---  and calved several months later.  Don't know why, but I don't take it as serious that they are open till they are preg checked.  Seen one last summer, stand to be rode about 90 days after...

In my case, I have a guy who comes around 6 times a year and fills my nitrogen tank.  For what he charges, he might break even or even loose money keeping nitrogen in my tank.    He stays in business on his cut of the semen that he sells.    So I try to give him all the business I can to keep...

My son has 1 of 3 steers that bloats after treating with fly spray.  I thought at first that it was coincidence--  but have no doubt that he bloats only after sprayed with fly spray. First tried a permethrin and then switched to a prolate spray--  same results with both--  spray on Monday and...

Knabe--  which cells are you talking about and what would you be looking for under a microscope?  Also, do you know if this is like th in that it takes both parents to be carriers? Dale--  agree with you, not easy to calve (lost 2 more 3/4 sibs to this one when hip locked calving, cows were...

There has been topics on here about double muscled cattle.  I thawed t-bones and took a picture of one. Steer was a Maine x and weighed 1300 and hung for 21 days.  Extremely lean, surprisingly tender and juicy enough---  but really tasteless or no flavor.  Really helps to cook on a BBQ grill...

I have a freezer full of a Maine X double muscled steer that we raised.  Biggest, leanest, chunk of red meat I ever seen.  Figured it was going to be tuff and dry--  but suprisingly, fairly tender, juicy and tasteless. I am cooking it almost all on the bbq grill and adding alot of mesquite or...

We get one like yours every couple yrs, our vet likes us to wait till fall and see if it will drop.  Like Cab said, dont band or cut the one out that you can get---  just make it harder for the vet later on.  Our vet gets them out.  Had one this year that just almost didnt even have a...

I had this happen once--  dropped straw of semen into thaw water and it shot back out like a rocket and bounced off the ceiling , then bounced off of 1 or 2 walls before hitting the floor.  There was no cotton plugs left in it when I picked it up-  but probably was some semen, but with no...

You can get a new motor and turbine from Valley Vet, Jobes Blue Ribbon, Circutteer, Sullivans, ect.  Probably doesnt matter what brand blower you have, Most are all the same Motor and turbine.    Last I knew, Motor and turbine was $80 or so and Valley Vet didnt charge freight.  Jobes Blue...

Dont know any thing about clover, but we graze alfalfa in the spring and put the bloat blocks in the water tank and let them dissolve.  Thinking of this is that every thing will get the active ingredient when getting a drink. good luck and have a good one

Like Terry said--  good quality semen-  Have you had it checked?  Are all these cows being AI"d with the same semen? Don't forget that there is alot of really poor semen out there.  I got some once that could only get about 10% conception with it and had it checked and it was 70% abnormal...

Here is a recipe that my wife uses from a Colorado Cattle Womens cook book that we really like, I will type this in just as it is in the book Marinade: 1 cup water 1/2 cup liquid smoke 1 T. Worcestershire sauce 1 cup brown sugar 1 1/2 T. salt Sauce: 1 1/2 cup catsup 1/2 cup liquid smoke 1/4...

This is probably not what you are looking for, but I have seen optiflex used in a big feed yard. The first time I ever heard of optiflex was close to ten yrs ago.   The feed lot that I was working at part time split about 5 pens ( may be 250 hd each) into two groups as they were reimplanting...

May be I should clarify some info---  he went to buy an envelope from the post  master and when she seen what he was going to ship, she wouldnt ship it until he went down to a grocery store and got dry ice.  Then apperently he put it in a zip lock bag--  which I am afraid will build pressure...