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Where do you get the idea that commercial guys don't do C-sections? We live in South Dakota and in the midst of cattle country; our vets do LOTS of sections each year for commercial guys; our vets do them for economic reasons... salvage value on a cow is now about $1000; but even when it wasn't...

hope you will give her a shot of lute in a couple of weeks......

for a heifer, Top Gun's sire, TNT Gunner is heifer safe; if you happen to get a heifer calf, she will be an awesome cow; we have a number of them...they are prob not fancy enough for a show heifer but they make the very best cows.

we had a cow once with a ripped vaginal wall; the hole never healed closed, but the edges did heal. The rip was on the top so the skin that divides the vaginal area and rectum had a big hole in it; permanently; so when she calved, the calf's foot would always go up into this rip and so into the...

She was sure big enough at 90 lbs.for being a week early but required no assistance. Will have several more and I would not put away the calving chains until they have arrived.

pure economics it costs alot more to replace her than to keep her for a year. rare if there will ever be another problem like what happened this time.

I would hope to find a purebred; not sure how this bull's YW epd is this high when Shear Force's is about only half that.

I believe our breed is crying out for some maternally orientated sires... look at the milk EPDs on almost all of these new bulls; almost all or negative or at least barely positive. when the Simmental breed originally came into the United States, MILK was one of their assets...they were known as...

Look at his EPD's; believe he takes away milk in a big way.

will have some soon but not quite yet!

need to use chains not twine double hitch the chains, one hitch above the pastern/ankle, the other below or just above the hoof; this spreads out the pressure of the pull need to use a puller work with the cow/don't be in a hurry; tighten the pull just a few clicks each time the cow strains; but...

that would be way out of line for here.... maybe there was an error. I sure would go in and ask.

sometimes once they start they seem to never get their rumen back to being healthy and be able to stop bloating. did you take away all grain? not as likely to bloat on just hay. another option that we did once upon a time a long time ago; had a bull that was a chronic bloater; got a hole tied...

I have seen this a quite a few times and I would call it a true contracture.... when the baby is laying down, the hooves are bent backwards up towards the hocks, a fetal position; when the baby is so packed into the cow with no room to move and flex those joints, they become contracted over...

stretch and straighten the affected legs....rub those tendons and pull that leg to straighten them; this always happens to BIG babies; I always thought it was cause they get so crowded in the cow before birth that there is no room to stretch their legs like they need to and so the tendon stays...

it has a very low heredity..... the Asset son Hidden Treasure is almost ready to freeze semen at 10 months; they are pretty certain he will be freezing before he is a year old. seems if low fertility was inherited those wouldn't reproduce and we wouldn't have it at all anymore...

this is straight from the mouth of Dave Geyer, one of the syndicated owners. Asset was a poor semen producer from the start; it took awhile for just the syndicated owners to get a semen bank on him; hence why he was higher priced to start with and not used alot; then he badly injured a leg...

might as well stir up more trouble here!!!! this is taken from Cattle.com site......just another train of thought on the whole matter...... MONDAY, FEBRUARY 06, 2012 By and large, the grand champions at the biggest of the big stock shows are just a bit like sausage.  They’re a great, inspiring...

used some Snafu back in the day; never got anything worth writing home about.

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