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If your feed ration is a small (very fine) particle mix, change it. The very fine mixtures do not process as well and add insult to injury.  I agree w/ free choice hay as well.  d.t.

I would just like to add my two cents for what it's worth. We used Rocky Balboa this year on two heifers.  Both calved extremely easy (calves ran approx. 50#).  Calves are great clubby calves too! with lot's of hair. Deb T.

We have a stock trailer and take out the horse dividers except for the forward most one in the trailer. We had a thick rubber (mat) attached to the bottom metal part of the horse divider.  We place our grooming chute, etc.  in the front horse compartment.  Our box fits in the dressing room of...

We were at Lake City in May but haven't done any other ones.  It's not that we wouldn't like to, just that the girls also show horses and it's hard to do it all. Hey, I saw your black/white photo of the bull calf -- what a cutie!  We are relatively new to this but our first two show heifers are...

SKF, He looks good. Very similar to a SH my daughter had last year (county).  She weighed in at 834 in mid Sept and finished at 1320 in late Feb.  We watched his ration amount very closely.  He placed first in his class and was looked at really hard in the Grand Champion drive.  It's just that...

Does anyone have Rocky's calves on the ground out of heifers?  What are they like with reference to BW, frame , etc?  Please post photos if possible.  Thanks.  DT

Hi, just noticed your message.  We recently had the same problem.  Cow didn't have mastitis but just a poor quality to her udder.  Large teats, large bag.  A newborn calf can't latch onto the teat when it's so large and hangs so far down.  As mentioned, the same situation applied.  We couldn't...