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Found these tracks in our barn yard last week, within 40 yards of our house.  Calving start in a month and we are just hoping this cat was just passing through. 

The simple fact that there were a lot of Bred Heifers at Agribition that weighed over 1600 lbs blew my mind.  The average cow on our farm weighs 1400-1600 and most bred heifers in that 1100-1250 range.  The bred heifer we showed weighed a little over 1200 lbs and for he frame size we were...

Protectionist economic policies from a government kept a float from foreign government loans. 

So the american's don't want our oil or beef, so much for free trade and being our biggest ally and trading partner.  Time to start pushing Canadian products over sea's.

Same thing happened to us and our calves went off feed.  We were able to find a mineral w/rummensin in it and mixed it in as we fed that tote and it worked great.  If you do mix your own rummensin in you need to follow the directions on the bag. 

Lots of talk about pedigree fraud but yet this association still doesn't mandate DNA herdsire verification which leaves a open door for more pedigree fraud.   

I found the answer on there website. 1. General: Animals do not have to be DNA genotyped to be registered. However, if an animal becomes an A.I. sire or a donor dam, all required genetic testing must be completed and a DNA genotype record on file with the ASA prior to registering any progeny...

Does the American Shorthorn Assoc make it mandatory that all sires have DNA verification/Hair sample on file?

I find it odd that some posts get moved to the classifieds section ("No Worries" @ Executive Sires) but yet other people can start posts about their upcoming bull sales and they don't get moved. 

#FarmVoices - It's Our Turn Great video done in Alberta, Canada

We quit using iodine one year at the recommendation of the vet and we seen a huge increase in Naval infections, since then we use iodine all the time and it helps.  If we do have to treat a calf for naval infection I usually go with 2 treatments of Nuflor and it seems to do the trick. 

I have to agree with AJ on this one.  In our herd we have a mixture of older long spined big cows and then some off spring that we have used more moderate bulls to create. I would take a herd of those moderate cows any day over some of those longer spined cows we started with. My feed bill and...

One year we had a pen of roughly 15 bred heifers all bred to the same bull and kept together there whole life, over half of those calves were backwards.  The next year we used the same bull again and didn't have a single backwards calf.  The only thing we could think of was not enough exercise...

Its quite a ways back in the cows pedigree.  BECKTON STORMALONG 751-626 RA8605 MAF OSC

yes those are canadian reg #'s. 

Here you go. RED BASIN EXT 1925 RA786702 OSF RED BASIN EXT 5233 RA1051861 MAF OSF RED BASIN PRIMROSE 2043 RA848410 OSF Sire: RED BASIN EXT 45T5 1429484 AMF NHF OSF C A FUTURE DIRECTION 5321 867594 CAF NHC AMC BASIN ROSE 710P RA1006811 AMF NHF OSF (RC) RED...

Before you start calling people names you should know the facts.  When the owners bought the bull he was believed to be clean and they used him that year, during that first breeding season they had interest in the bull so they got him tested in the event they decided to sell semen on him.  When...

So this bull with a unique pedigree that has produced some outstanding CLEAN offspring is not a breeder and doesn't provide any benefit to the breed?

The rule came in after the bull was born and used thus they were able to continue to use him in Canada.  Carrier animals born before a certain date can still be registered in Canada but all there offspring need to be tested before they can be registered.  If any new calves are tested as carriers...