Search results

We have a Tiger Woods steer that isn't gaining weight very well . He has a good appetite and is currently eating about 24 lbs per day but in the last 45 days he has only gain 45 lbs. He doesn't have any symptoms like scours etc. just not putting on the pounds. He has been wormed recently and ...

Contact your state DNR office and they should be able to help you with either some way to disperse them or if necessary crop deprivation deer tags which allow your to shoot them outside of the regular deer season. If deprivation tags are issued and you don't hunt they should be able to put you...

We trim hooves at least 2 weeks before we plan to show. This gives plenty of time for them to adjust from the trim. A good hoof trimmer can really help correct some feet issues and how they walk and stand. On the other hand a bad hoof trim can really mess a calf up. Check around and find someone...

Umbargers is the way to go if you can get it. They have several different rations depending on what you are wanting. We use their Primer Plus 13 its a good base ration and runs us about $12 a bag. They also have a breeder grower, barley based, and finisher rations. For our heifers they have a...

I agree with lean beef Herefords are getting pretty popular now and if you think you could sell a purebred calf in your area go for it.

Not the worst steer I've ever seen. From the picture he needs more guts. Get him on some beat pulp and also some Depth Charge from Purina . That should help give him some more depth and overall volume. We mix one big scoop of wet beat pulp and 1 pound of Depth Charge into our calves feed every...

here is a picture of our 10X12 lined with plastic from a semi trailer

I will take some tomorrow and post them

Anybody seen this bull or heard anything about him? If so what do you think and what kind of cows do you think he will work best on? Will he make showy deals or strictly commercial based ? thanks in advance

Ours is 10 wide X 12 long. Would like to have a little wider but we make do. Something we did was when we poured the floor we put a pipe on the concrete on each side of the middle big enough to slide a 2 inch bar into this keeps them from moving around when washing. We insulated the walls and...

Thanks guys for all the input. As of right now I leaning towards going with a shorty bull. Now the hard part which one? Thinking about Capiche , Captain Obvious, SULL Payday, and Starburst. My only concern on Caption Obvious is his milk EPD it shows a -4 . What do you guys think ? Any others I...

Honestly Barry he could care less what color the calf is so long as it alive and he can sell it to someone as a feeder calf if its a steer thats not good enough to show.

Thanks guys now that I think about what you have said I was kind of putting the horse before the cart so to speak. I had never really considered using a shorthorn bull . Are there any other shorty bull you could suggest?

Thanks Diamond I will check them out . This picture isn't the best one if the cow but its the only one I could get . I would like to get a heifer out of her to put back into the herd and keep breeding up.

Ok I have a heifer that is about to calve this month and looking for suggestions on what to breed her back to. This is kind if an experiment because the cow belongs to my grandpa and he is old school. Buy a bull from a sale barn use it one summer and sell it back at the sale barn again. I'm...

We do just like everyone else has suggested but when we get them completely dry we blow in a mix of kleen sheen and sullivans hair liniment seems to help

We feed a lot of beat pulp to our heifers or you can use a feed additive called Full and Fresh or Depth Charge. We feed the beat pulp wet and mix it into their feed with the other two just follow the directions on the bag

Never fed soybeans myself but have heard several old timers say they soaked them first , don't really know why but thats what they always said.

My son had a hereford heifer like that last year only she got to the point that even I couldn't budge her. She would only walk if someone tailed her the entire time we worked her like this everyday for 2 weeks and didn't see any improvement. We even tried giving her some medication to take the...

That's the ration our mill came up with. In fact both of the local mills here put salt into their rations. However we are only talking 2.5 lbs per 500 lbs of feed. As far as hay I feel it helps keep their guts filled out . He was on the same ration when we got him at the beginning of January and...