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Our niece is 10 yrs old & is in her 1st yr of showing lambs (our 1st yr too). She is comfortable using the halter, but now less than 2 wks before fair she is questioning the etiquette of using it for the show. Is there an issue if she uses the halter in the show ring?

You say you're still going to take her to the show and pen her hoping that no one gets hurt. You might want to rethink that. If something bad happens at the show and someone gets hurt, it won't be the scramble committee, the selling ranch or the sponsor getting sued. It will be you (and possibly...

Anyone know what the dates of the 2013 Naile are?  Interested in going next year so I need to get it on the vacation calender at work. Thanks and everyone have a merry christmas!

I think maybe you just need to take your time with him. Think about it-if you were moved to a whole different city in a new house where you knew absolutly no one, how long would it be before you felt comfortable? You've only had him 3 days. To him you're a stranger. let him get to know you and...

Do whatever you think will make you the happiest. If you enjoy working with cattle and it's something you'd like to do after school then start building your herd. If you'd rather crop farm, then start renting ground now and go for it. Can you possibly do both? Not as much land and maybe buy a...

thanks for the info Glenstory. much apreciated (clapping)

Anybody recall what 700 lb feeders were bringing in Wi back in March? I forgot to jot it down and my niece is doing her 4-H record book and she needs the value of the calf @ start of project. Thanks.

Our fair is luck of the draw. Sale of campions- all champions are placed in a hat then drawn out randomly. Then same thing with rest of sale. Need a pig, draw one from pig hat same goes for sheep & cattle. That way we have a mix of all species all the way through to end of sale. Plus in regards...

How soon after calving can you put CIDRs in. Assuming a normal calving and good body condition. I would like to jump my cows up a bit and I was tinking of putting CIDRs in at about 35-40 days open. (Provided the heat breaks a bit) ;)

Does anyone have any experiance with the "instant" shelters made by Shelter Logic? Thinking about getting one to house my round baler. It'd be a smaller one- somewhere around 10' x 15' x 8' basicall just big enough for the baler. Wondering how they'd hold up under wind & snow loads and such. Thanks

Miles or time- a warranty is a warranty. Just because you used your generator only a limited amount dosen't mean that if the warrenty is expired you should still be covered. Warrenties don't say " covered for 1 year unless only used lighty- then it's 2 year warranty." Don't matter if you buy...

I bought a bred cow on a breed sale in the fall. She was due to calve the following Jan. As the due date apporached I brought her into the barn. As it so happened she calved while I was @ work. Looked like the calf was kinda born in the corner of the pen and his neck was at the wrong angle and...

I have a question about pasture. Past couple years I've had my cows out on grass pasture pretty much all summer. Growth was about 99.5% grass- nothing specific planted just whatever came up Quackgrass, Junegrass and maybe some Brome that was there from previous owner. Now I see this year that...

I have Mercedes Benz steer calf for my niece. He's pretty decent attitude wise at home but last week when we weighed him in he came unglued. Jumping all over trying to climb the wall etc. Had him tied in the trailer on the way there (2 head in trailer), but left him loose on the way home. When...

I do almost everything TAI using CIDRs, prostaglandin and GnRH and have had great sucess on both heifers & cows. The only thing I breed on standing heat is the ones that come into heat when I pull the CIDRs. Makes scheduling the breeder nicer when you can say meet me at this date at theis time...

I feed distillers to my cows year round with good results. Seems to help keep them in condition while nursing as well as during gestation. Added bonus of they are more willing to come to the bunk/work area when time for breeding/vet work. Sure beats having a rodeo everytime I want to catch them...

We use a fair amount of distillers grain in our operation. Anything from a little bit to the cows every day to keep them coming up to the bunk so we can do vet/breeding work (also seems to help keep them in condition while nursing a calf) to use in grower rations as well as some in the finishing...