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Heifers can be rough too......  It may be tough but if she can keep short on the lead and keep his head up and anticipate it....  Kinda beat him to the punch by pushing his head up.

That his mother wasn't good enough to keep out of the locker.......  I would have a hard time using a bull that did not have a good cow behind him.

Have a life calf, take care of it, raise it respectably and repeat.......  The ability to do that for ten to twelve years is what makes a cow maternal.

I think a lot of wisdom in the form of "old wives tails" is being lost with the passing of my grandfathers generation.....  We get so hung up on syncing protocols and epds that a lot of multigenerational knowledge is not getting passed down...... He would have been a cool guy to know and talk...

We have been synching groups of four to five the past few weeks.....  About one group a week.  There are a couple cows in the AI pen that have not calved yet.  One has stood, full fledged tail to the side standing with each group we have cycled.  The first group I palled her and the calf is...

End of August is a lot more then six weeks away.  He will make 1000 by then, but he needs to be more then that.  He needs to be pushed.

A building with a walk in cooler in Red Oak Iowa was bought and is being torn down.  They are selling the walk in cooler.  Might be worth checking into if some one was looking for a cooling unit.  Has to be out of there by the weekend

My first purebred show heifer got to die on the place, I had actually said I would tan her hide but that didn't work out.  She was a lead cow and you could put the halt on her and other cows would follow....  Much like the cow mentioned above.  She raised a great son that changed our herd and...

Was going to post the same question.....  Synced 12....  Six came in and stood, three about twelve hour earlier then expected, two right on schedule, waited another one out.....  The other six never showed any signs of standing.....  Was going to go ahead and time breed but it just didn't...

I disagree completely with xbar on this one.... That cow ain't worth flushin, in fact probably not worth your time.  Need to load her up and ship her to my house and I will try to make something of her..... ;) One that good, you will get good calves probably no matter what you breed her to.

No way no how......    A vaccine by design produces an immune response up to and including a possible fever.....  Increased body temp will harm sperm......  Not based on cowboy knowledge, based on my schoolling about how the human body works, but a mammal is a mammal in a lot of cases, this...

I'd give about anything to have that cow back!    The sire to the herd bull she raised was Polled Power.....    One of the biggest name limi bulls at the time, come to think of it, wouldn't mind having another turn at that bull either!   

What makes prepotency only come from the sire?..... My first PB cow gave me a bunch of mini me heifers and a herd bull.  The herd bull changed out herd because all of his heifers looked like his half sisters.  I would argue his pro potency came from his mama, and he was by one of the most...

Vorthmann Limousin....  Treynor Iowa, won't find better people and have very nice cattle.  Last I knew they had a few left from their crop last year which was I thought there best ever.

We are currently at 46 live calves without losing one this year........  Of our first 9 calves, 8 were heifers.  They were all AI pregnancies except for two which were sale barn cows, one each from those two......  So our first seven AI calves were all heifers and we certainly did not breed...

We used Power 2 Change 2 years on heifers.  Very good luck.    Kept all the heifers out of him from last year, just bred one to Rumor Mill last week, and have a super nice heifer out of him this spring along with a couple other good ones.    Potters, who raised him, have kept several heifers...

While clearly way out there on the curve, I do think there is a biological reason that screws things past 50/50 in either direction.......  I have spent considerable time pondering human families where daughters from girl only families only have daughters and it seems to go that way scewed for...

I can certainly see the benefit of higher birthweights, but it goes back to the "ideal cow" discussion.  To handle a 110 birthweight, its gotta be a big cow.    With hay what it was in the winter of 12-13, those extra big cows cost more to feed, so you were having some costs in nov-feb to get...

You have a cow, good cow, clearly above average in your herd, whatever that means to you wether that be a herd that is selling five figure steers every year or one that supplies some local kids with county fair calves.....  She is above average for your herd.  Would you rather..... 1) stamp...

Knabe has a good idea as well......  Depends on what your goal is, just making money or I proving your herd in the process.  Do you have plenty of feed?    We have done well the last few years buying old broken mouth cows in the late winter that are bred but have not been foraging well through...