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    Help!!!

    IT is ringworm we use miconazole cream it is an antifungal cream the vet sells for Cats and dogs we put it on twice a day and usually have hair growing back in a week or so
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    dead cattle pickup

    If you drag them off make sure they are not visible from the road or the neighbors because some one could call you in I believe it is said now they are to be picked up by a rendering truck or buried for disposal but coyotes and buzzards gotta eat also
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    Favorite bedding for show cattle?

    city has a chipper pile in town you can load out of I load a pick up bed in about 10 minutes with a silage fork throw all the big sticks out and it is free now is the time to go and get some they will be shredding cedar Christmas trees next week works great for me never completly change it just...
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    Danger to your cows from excessive ice...what can you do to help?

    I call the local lime truck he comes and spreads lime from the Quarry on all the farm roads or any place else I want him to he will spread it backwards so he gets the traction of the lime also roll out a ale of hay they will lay on it eat part of it and walk on the rest then in the spring just...
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    Hauling?

    We try to put down about 4-6 inches of wood chips on tieing depends on number usually let loose if can put 2 or less to a compartment tie down some with more #'s and tie up if a full trailer load usually going long distance never seems to be a full trailer and if they are able to lay down we wil...
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    Hours in the Barn

    that is 60+ per week we feed in the mornig tied down ussually tie up  early afternoon then work them and feed agaain after all other work is done usually around 6 pm 12+ hours a day X 7days a week figures out about 84 hours a week +or - a few
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    dead cattle pickup

    I dont think we even have  arendering truck around everybody just puts a dead on back in the timber or buries them with a little dirt
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    New picture of morality! Non cattle

    Never smoked any thing illegal but there is always something in everybodies past somewhere sometime that is illegal or immoral to another person may not be in your eyes or even in mine but will be in somebodies
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    Dream Ranch Location

    Would like to build one about 4 miles from here always thought it was a nice spot there is a big hill on the back side of that farm and then it drops off into a bottom just always thought it would be neat to build a house in that hillside and have the cattle down in the bottom
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    Oldest cow and bull

    I know a guy that bought a short solid at a sale about 15 year ago and she had a calf every year he finally sold her last fall she had to be over 20 at the time the last year she raised a nice calf but just could not maintain herself
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    Sweating?

    you need to move more air in your barn it sounds like to me if you put even a small fan on him it should solve the problem have seen some get sick form it I run a fan all the time just to stir the air around
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    show box

    I would look at a few and see what you like about each one and make notes I like Reds box but dont think I could load it by myself which seems to happen a lot some aspects I personally woudl like to have in one are 1 a removable area to put adhesives in this way you can grab smal box take it...
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    Is this true?

    I have used the hold my beer line
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    Hauling a grooming chute

    Depending on number of head we either haul it like you do or put calves in front and leave the chutte set up on the back then fill the chute up with other tack showbox, generator and fans usually
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    What do you do?

    On the Sprite we put 1-2    2 liter bottles in a 5 gallon bucket then flavor it with koolaid and fill bucket with water
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    What is too cold to wash calves?

    I try to rinse every day above 40 and wash at least once a week after calves are broke. I leave a small fan running in the corner of the barn 24/7 any time there is calve able to get in there but my barn is an old hip roof with a loft in it and the calves will often sweat in there with out the...
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    What do you do?

    We use the KOOL AIDand sprite  method the carbonization in the sprite will make them look fuller as it lets off in side of them same as it will make the bottle expand and if they just absolutely refuse to drink which very seldom happens  stick a pump in them can only remember two steers in 20...
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    Nose ring in a steers nose

    We had a head strong heifer one time and i rung her let it all heal up after she was broke and then cut the ring out and put in a black zip tie for showing if she acted up you could grab the loop in the zip tie and she stopped instantly and was a lot less noticable than a ring in her nose she...
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    Hauling a grooming chute

    Chute goes inside ussually set up with generator show box and any thing that will fit inside of it and the fancage on out side hanging on side above fenders chute sometimes gets folded up and throwed on is sside and used as a gate in the trailer depending on # of calves when we started that...
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    Is WMW still alive?

    I remember a full brother to WMW being promoted but dont remember what they called him
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