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Trademarked "worked"? ah, not here he did not.  He is fine as a heifer bull but there are sure better. We used 20 units/year for the first two years he was out; then found we could do much better with others. Would hesitate with this bull because he 1) is a Trademark 2)has white socks We run...

When were your calves born? Have an Amazon heifer here that looks really nice, will try and get a pic of her for you when the weather gets better.  Will have more of them coming in April. You look like you calve earlier than here!

Talked to Lance Ellsworth from Cattle Visions who recommended Apollo last spring for me to use as a genetically clean choice; he says that the reports that are coming into him this calving season are very positive.  He said there are guys in NW Iowa who have yearling Apollo heifers in the yard...

As promised, here are a couple pictures of our oldest Apollo calf, Apollo is a TH/PHA free Sunseeker.  This heifer is 1 month old now.

Anyone use the Th/PHA free Apollo bull; a Sunseeker son? Best clubby calf here is out of him and dammed by a Heatwave daughter. This could be the best clubby calf that has been raised here; Too bad it is a heifer; would be worth more as a steer. Will try and get a picture up of her end of this...

nothing would not be an alternative.

I am horrified to read the account of pulling a calf with 2 pickups; having spent my whole life calving cows, I would say that this would be considered animal abuse.  Unnecessary and stupid.  Do not know about you but I calve out cows for a living and this is not cost-effective.  There are...

internet here is through our cell phone provider....Verizon had dial-up before and this is so much better.

Have delivered the butt first calves a number of times also;with  the number of cows we calve, we pretty much "micro-manage" them; if they have not made progess in 15-20 minutes or if we do not know how long they have been calving or if they have nothing but blood on their tail...ie. something...

Just a note on draining the fluid from the calf; do not hang them over a gate, best way to get the fluid out is to lift the calf up by the back legs off the ground and swing it around in a circle making the fluid drain out by the force of the guts pushing on the lungs/airways. (need at least a...

Having calved out thousands of cows in my career, I have learned to not be afraid of the breech calf.  There are two types of breech births, those with the back legs coming out and then those where there is only a tail coming and the back legs are tucked down into the uterus and those are much...

We are McFarland's co-op herd in South Dakota. Not akidding Legacy is the real deal.  We are even putting Legacy into some crossbred cows of our own for clubby calves. Have a bunch of Legacy calves coming this spring. Look for more great ones this year out of the McFarland/Franz herd!

He is an sired by Alias so would get nothing from him; out of a Heatseeker cow, so probablly has TH from there.

I was out to Paul's place last August and spent probably 20 minutes just watching Malibu walk in a big lot just loose with no halter nor showstick help. I found him to be as sound as a cat at that time; believe me, I walked behind him, to the side of him, watched him stop and set himself up.  I...

Have had diphtheria in the past and treated with penicillin about dble the dose and a good shot of dexamethazone.

We used to band all of our bull calves at about 700 lbs.  However, the vets around here, South Dakota, do not like to band anymore. One problem has been tetnus, another problem has been the swelling like you have and the worst I have seen is when the band seems to tear off partly and you have...

Approx. 200 registered Simmentals plus 60 clubby mommas and commercial Simmi crosses used mostly for club calves

That's the one I wanted!!!! Have a fun show season!

As a friend of ours put it one time.....projects cost money and so does paying a lawyer to represent your son/daughter when they are in trouble with the law because of lack of responsibility.  We have three grown children....one is a computer software engineer who writes software that has won...

My thought would be,yes, she was in heat. She did become pg when you bred her back in June, but very commonly, there is early embryo death.  I do not have the stats with me now, but it is quite common.  I hate it because it makes your cow all off for the next calving year.  I also hate it...