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This is quite common with rye grass, it is hard to dry.  It does feed well.

We have one I80 in production and we really like her.  She reached puberty at 8 months old.  Caught on first AI.  Calved at 23 months on her own and is making a great cow.  She cycled twice before the start of this breeding season and we will AI her on her 3rd heat.  She improved the udder and...

If your show is the end of July you don't have enough time to shear them and grow the hair back.  Buy a shedding comb from Sullivans or Weaver and you will really like it.  Use it daily until you stop getting hair coming out.  They work better than anything.  Next year start earlier with the...

Mine is MA 5011

I had a poor experience with Live Auctions when they first started charging the $50.  It was the first and last time I ever bought anything through them.  I called Brad several times after, he kept telling me he would take care of it, but never did anything. And their magazine is definitely not...

I'm just going to bump this once to see if there are any other opinions. Thanks

A friend of mine who is in charge of a regional show for a small breed (They get around 100 head) approached me about some ideas for putting on another show of some kind, to help spread costs.  The show is the middle of September in the upper midwest. I had an idea about holding a junior...

I have one.  She has a very nice udder and a lot of milk. 

Both the AMAA and ACA registration numbers have a bull listed as a Direct Hit out of an Irish Whiskey cow.  The also have two different birth dates?  If this is the same bull as in the ad, the ad has a different birth date as well.

How about looking at the relationship between BW and gestation length.  I've been keeping track of my gestation length since 2008, I have about 150 records (since 2008) of single live births with gestation and birth weigth data.  If you are interested in it, shoot me a pm and I will email it to...

Offer her a bottle of milk replacer.  If she sucks it down, she is starving.  If she doesn't take it, try a couple of more times.  If you cant get her to take it, she is getting enough milk to atleast survive.  We've had to supplement a few calves over the years for a period (couple of cows with...

I'm going to disagree with this a little.  Yellow jacket is orange, which means he has 2 red genes and a diluter gene, therefore your heifer does have a red gene.  The diluter gene and black/red gene are independent of each other.  Your heifer is smoke, so she is heterozygous black.  Monopoly is...

Jason, Are these visits per month? Interesting information, I would have never guessed that all 8 midwest states would be in the top ten, and Oklahoma would not be.

Heat Wave X Habanero (TH Carrier) really moderate big bellied.  Tallest, shallowest bodied calf she had ever had.  Her I80 calf the year before was huge bellied. Lead On (char) X Heat Seeker (TH Carrier) again really moderate and big bellied.  This was her second calf - tall, shallow - he's in...

We had 3 of them last year, 2 of them were out of TH cows.  I didn't re-order.  There body shape was to much like old limi's; tubey, high flanked, round rumped, and to tall for the amount of body they had.  I was really disappointed, they were all out of good cows.  You definitely won't get a...

I also use 283 day gestation.  I always right down on our calving sheet how many days they are +/- from their due date. Here are my I80 calves over the last couple of years out of a mixture of cows and heifers.  I have 4 more to go this year. Heifers  +1, +2, +5, +1, +1, -3, -2 Bulls    0...

If she is still pregnant you did not harm the calf.  The cystorellin and CIDR will not harm a pregnant cow.  The lutylase will cause the Corpus Luteum to regress, stopping the production of progesterone, which causes the cow to come into heat.  A cow that is 6 months pregnant the placenta will...

The polled gene and scurred gene are two different genes.  The scurred gene is also sexed linked, in that a bull calf only needs one scurred gene to express scurs, where as a female needs both scurred genes to express scurs.  If the cow has scurs, then she has both genes, and will always pass...

I loved it. It must have been popular.  It is on 6 different blogs this morning.