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  1. Shady Lane

    What size round bales does everybody bale, buy or use?

    I have seen 4'x6' bales tip over in heavy crosswinds plenty of times.
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    Frost free Nose Pumps

    I Installed a Frost Free Nose Pump, in the late fall of 2011. It's been working well so far and it was easy to train the cows to use it.
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    Canadian National Champion Shorthorn Bull

    This bull also won Regina Agribition as well as Denver, backdrop pictures available from those shows.
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    What size round bales does everybody bale, buy or use?

    Hi to all, I am doing a bit of a poll here to see what size round bales people are using on their farm? Please vote in this poll and share what size round bales you use on your farm. Here in Saskatchewan and many parts of the great plains region we mostly use 5'x6' bales, that's what I make on...
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    AI'ing and vacinating at same time

    I have vaccinated while putting in CIDRs etc, found that my conception was much lower. Not recommended at all.
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    Shorty hf bulls

    What this breed, and what this business needs as a whole is more Cattlemen and fewer mathematicians, politicians and excuses. I do believe in performance data collection and the formation of EPDs. I think they can be a valuable TOOL. I also have little faith in many of the current  numbers and...
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    Totally off the wall question here...

    Over the years I've seen numerous black nosed Shorthorns, some appendix cattle with Chi influence etc, Rodeo Drive decendants etc, some with full "Beef Shorthorn, Scotch pedigrees, some with full Irish pedigrees. It definitely happens, it's a fairly common trait to find. One black nosed sire...
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    Calf Born Hairless

    Isn't there a deffect for hairless calves that is somewhat common in polled Herefords?
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    Shorthorns kick butt in Quebec

    Wow, that Roan Sue sure is one Athletic old Rascal!
  10. Shady Lane

    Jersey Nursing everything

    Try putting a regular brass ring in her nose, like you would put in a mature bull. That often works. I've often seen people heat a fence staple and wrap it around the ring as well, or braze it on. I've always been affraid of the nail breaking and falling off and the cow injesting it though...
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    Little League World Series!!!

    I've had a chance to watch parts of a few of these games and really enjoyed watching the kids play. This is the essence of baseball to me, I think I enjoyed these games more than the MLB games I've seen in the last number of years. Great Ball!
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    Shadybrook Shorthorns Sale

      Lot 15 is out of a first calf heifer that I raised, Shadybrook bought her from me in the Canadian Western Agribition Sale in 2010 as a heifer calf. Her dam, Mistress 5X was one of my favorite heifers from the 2010 calf crop. She was an ET daughter of a donor of mine, MV Trump's Misty 0128...
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    Shadybrook Shorthorns Sale

    I just returned from Omaha and had the Shadybrook Catalog in the mail waiting for me, looks Great! Excellent set of cattle on offer and definitely worth the trip for the hospitality and scenery. When I think of heaven to a Beef Cow, I think of Shadybrook.
  14. Shady Lane

    Hay Prices in your area

    Takes very little to cross the border with hay as far as paperwork goes. Lat year we sent 30,000+ bales out of my area to Texas, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma etc. You may need overwidth permits because the bales would be roughly 5'x6' Usually average around 1,400lbs/bale.
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    Hay Prices in your area

    Lots of Hay here in southern Saskatchewan, I'm told it's worth $70/ton Canadian money.
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    Settle an argument...who has to open the gate?

    I'm dreaming of the days when I never have to open a gate again. Cattle Guards all the way!
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    Tires

    In my career as an equipment salesman I have put an awfull lot of miles on dirt and gravel roads, combined with heavy towing of equipment and then the regular farm duties of the truck as well. I have had the best luck with BF Goodrich Rugged Trails and have put 75,000 miles on a few sets...
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    Hay

    I wouldn't imagine! The freight would be nuts for sure. But they were packing 53' van trailers on the 1/4 section next to me with 3x3x8 bales and hauling it on some backhauls. Only getting $35/ton for it here in the swath but add baling, stakcing, loading and a heck of a lot of freight and it...
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    Hay

    Hey Shortdawg, what's hayworth in your part of the world? We have huge surpluses right now and it's cheap. Tens of thousands of tons went out of here to Texas, Oklahoma and other southern states last year at cheap prices.
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    Anyone ever successfully treat a calf with tetanus??

    Are you certain that the vaccine you used contained tetanus protection? If so, you or your vet should be contacting the vaccine manufacturer. They should come good for your calf.
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