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Here in SE Missouri, it's been super hot for the past week. And before that it, I rained almost every day for about a month. It's supposed to cool down next week here though... They said it might get down to 92.  :P

I saw an ad for him in The Register. He has very impressive EPDs too.

I'm on facebook and I play farm town too  ;

Crossbreds live longer than purebreds and fullbloods. The more genetically diverse the 2 breeds being crossed are, the greater the longevity. So it makes sense these Santa Gertudius cattle are living so long because they come from shorthorns and brahmans, which are not closely related. A good...

It doesn't really matter to me. Homemade ones generally load a little faster. But the professionally designed ones can impress people a little more. I made my own ranch website in raw HTML. If you're making your own website, you can use some of the codes from my webpage if you want to.

I use these websites to think of names for my cattle. http://www.babynames.com/ http://babynameguide.com/ They're all people names though. I usually look at the meaning of the dam's name and try to pick out something related. I also like naming calves after characters on TV and singers. Good...

We got a coupon and bought one of those converter boxes. It only worked half the time and it kept breaking up when it actually did work. It kept telling us if we wanted a better picture we had to buy even more equipment. We ended up just purchasing our local channels on the satilite.  :D

I made a topic similar to this back when I first got my creep feeder. Someone told me to just put some fresh hay down in the floor of the cage of the feeder and the calves would start going in there more often because it's a soft place to lay and they'll eventually start eating. It works! I can...

I was given an orphan baby charolais calf a while back that wouldn't suck a bottle for anything. She ate grain so I ended up having to mix the powdered formula in with the feed. She acted like she had bad lungs or something. She'd even lap up water like a dog instead of suck/sip water like like...

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That's a pretty ear tag. :) My math teacher from high school showed horses and she always told me that I should put glitter in my heifers' hair before I showed them so they would sparkle.

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A few years ago I had a crossbred heifer that would just lay down when it was hot outside (I guess she was tired). My dad would get behind her and twist her tail and she'd get up again like nothing happened. She didn't try it at the fair luckly.  ;) One of the funniest times is when she layed...

Nice heifers. I like 35 the best. My second favorite would have to be 49.  ;D

I can't stand Carrie Underwood becuase of her involvement with HSUS and PETA. When her music comes on the radio, I always change the station. One more vote for George Strait!  ;D

Grand 4T Fyer mixed with regular mixed feed works well.

I never met Red in real life, but I'll really miss reading her kind posts and interesting topics here on steerplanet.  :'( We'll miss you, Red. (angel) Whitney

Last year we hauled my simmental heifers to the bull. We'd bring them back a day after the bull bred them and 21 days later, they'd be back in heat. We found that if we left them there for a few weeks after the bull bred them, they'd be pregnant when we brought them home. They'd also calve near...

I'm honest when it comes to birthdates. At all the shows I go to, the breeding stock have to be born by September 1 (9-1-2007 is the cut off this year). I showed a yearling heifer born 8-26-2007 in 2008 but she'll be too old by just a couple of days to show again in 2009. Since she's too old...

When we have bottle calves, we feed them a bottle of milk twice per day. For feed we usually give them a mixture of 50/50 Startena and a regular Co-op feed as soon as possible. Then start giving less Startena and more regular feed until eventually it's all regular feed. We've kept several good...