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    Best place in US to raise show cows and calves?

    I am in NEMO about 80 miles north of Columbia I would say the winters can be bad but for the most part are not we might have a couple of weeks of real cold weather club calves are sold and traded pretty frequently around here and close enought to IA and OK you can hit both markets in MO we shoot...
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    Internships...

    try the cattlemens association or the state breed assocciations alot of them in MO take a college student intern for the summer some paid some unpaid just look there are things out there
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    Ace or Thorazine?

    not gonna comment on the cattle but have fit for several kids I would like to drug and there parents mom gets wounmd up we are late so we rush up there and wait 4 classes oh well part of it
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    Turn out pens

    my runs are 16 feet wide and 400 feet long feed hay at the far end to make them travel it we ussually have 2-5 calves in a run then out side of that is a large pen if we have a bigger group inside barn  would do a 12x12 for each calf only way I would go smaller is if I tie them up then 12 long...
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    What are your indulgences? Besides cattle!

    Anything Minneapolis Moline I have filled the basement wiht old books and farm toys and am working on filling the machine shed full of real tractors
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    Feeding Cooked Corn

    We use a roaster liek mom uses to cook hams in in the kitchen have not done it for a couple of years but I think dont quoter me though we put in 16 lbs of dry grain( corn or corn and oats)  and then filled it full of water put it on high and came back next feeding ran the cooker around the clock...
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    How is your county show set up.

    Our county show is going on during the fair so there are other things going on all the time we usually have a radio in our stalls at any show for the buyers they do have acomplimentary meal before the starting an hour before the sale
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    Implants on heifers

    It can be done with the right implants she should make 1200 -1250 lbs by July with the right feed if you push her a little it may be on the lite side but I dont like implants they seem to put weight on in the wrong places
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    Chairs?

    We have some that are made by Coleman think they came from Sams Club they are heavy and have a little table on the side they fold up flat and stack nice they are about $40 a chair though but ours have held up goo we try to stick them in behind the show box or something so they dont get crushed
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    Jobs - N/C

    Dont be in a hurry to get out of school I went to college got a degree dont regret that at all knew all along I wanted to farm was/am a workaholic went to college took 16-23 hours a semester and worked a job every minute they were open and I was not in class got out with a 4 year degree in 3and...
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    Jobs - N/C

    When I was in college I had a guy that was a recruiter for John Deere tell me that he would I hire a guy with a 2.5 Gpa before some one with a 4.0 because most of the time the kid with the 4.0 stuck his nose in the book and did not socailize very much which was just as or more important than the...
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    Clipper Lube

    I usually give them a shot of 3 in 1 oil when I start then use final bloom pink or what every other oil is laying around the chute
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    More Defects

    truth be known Lowlines are probaly the true angus and what we all call angus today is a crossbred of sorts to get there size I worked fro some angus breeders it was no coincidence they owned a commercial herd also if a "purebred' came out spotted well that calf wsa crossbred if it came out...
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    Jobs - N/C

    I raise hogs faroow a 122 sows every 3 weeks  on a contract farrowing and got a few cows it pays the bills dont get wrapped up in the money if it will provide for you and your family and be comfortable that is all that matters
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    Bull for Club calf out of PB Angus?

    Hannibal usually work good on angus type  cows
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    More Defects

    We had an EXT on a full throttle cow that heifer was nice kept her for a cow she was always hard to catch and you did not want to be in a confined area with her
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    C-Section

    NEver seen one done lying down always standing and then after sewed up turn them into a small clean pen we did have a video of one being doen a long time ago
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    NWSS Photographer NEW PICTURE!!!

    The bull loks really good in your pictures. the angle is wrong in the pic from the show I would get a refund and either take one out in the open or up against a barn or soemthing I would not use the show picture for any type of advertising or promotion it just does not make the bull look that good
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    Resale of items

    Cooler depends on size and cooling capacity on fans and such if in great shape I go half of new price and then adjust from there
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    Fitting At non fit shows??

    We only have a couple of no fit shows and they are no chemicals in the hair so we just brush and comb if you work the hair at home everything will work at the show. We can get a really hairy calf ready faster at a fit show than at a no fit. It just takes a lot more blowing and brushing to get...
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