thank you everyone for the feed back , i have a couple questions though, if i were to cut them off and feed it back to him how long till i see results? and do i just need to pull of one? can i just use pliers to pull one off instead of cutting it? squeezing the wart is an interesting idea too...
hello, I have a bull that i am showing and he has a few good sized warts that need to be taken care of. I did some searching on here and found that most of you like to cut them off and feed them back too them and then put iodine where the warts use to be. My bull is white and i am concerned...
using a dairy cow to raise an ET or orphaned calf could be done with a milking shorthorn. some friends of mine raise and show milking shorthorns. They only keep their show cows at their house and instead of milking only 5 or 6 cows they just leave the calves on the cows and the calves do just...
Thank you very much frostback and cowcrazy! (clapping) Both cow and calf are doing great now. It took a couple of days to get the cow to allow the calf to nurse. I just left her and the calf alone in a pen in our barn and that seemed to help.
Our local county show is 4-H kids only but our FFA section has what we call our "Section Fair" and this show is for FFA kids only. I kinda like it this way.
I just had a heifer calve a couple days ago and she wont let her calf nurse. :-\ Its not that she wont let the calf nurse at all because she dose let it nurse, but only on one quarter. My thought on the situation is that her udder is so swollen that it hurts. She doesn't even like her udder...
The ramp thing with steers concerns me a too. I wasn't necessarily suggesting a ramp but that something similar to that method could work. That was really what I was trying to get at is that I have only heard of ramps being used for lambs. Doing something similar like building up a mound of...
I fed my market lambs on a ramp that was set at a little steeper that 45 degrees. It sure helped to build up their hind muscles. I have never heard of this method being used for steers but i would think it would be work a try. As long as they have to stretch (especially their hind muscles) to...