Recent content by Dusty Britches

Devastating for sure. There is no loyalty anywhere. Those communities supported Tyson in tough times and now the company is ditching them.

We always soaked dove and quail breasts in milk or orange juice for 24 hours for the same reason. It makes a difference. I've not done it to a steak, but I will try it soon.

GB, I'm sorry to hear about your pain and everything else. I hope and pray you can find relief soon. May the Lord provide you with comfort and peace and Bless you richly.

I use 4" as a never get shorter than rule.

The LBJ region is about as bad as it could be. I think they are in a D4 drought over there. It does improve as you move toward the coast, but most of us have not seen rain in 4 weeks.

And just like that, I stopped receiving the daily posts emails. What is the email address that these emails are coming from? Perhaps Hotmail is blocking them?

After 10 years, I hope the OP found a solution by now.

Sometimes small producers have to sell out, too, but cannot do a big liquidation sale. Why not look for those types of cows at the sale barn? One man's junk is another's treasure. I certainly have sold some nice cows that did not fit my program.

These prices are making me want to hold long on my stockers, but I might just have to cut them loose on the market.

Interesting to me that some vets prefer banding. I have several vets and they all prefer the knife cut. Perhaps it is a southern thing or our vets were all farm raised as well as the vet school instructors at Texas A&M. It's like one vet explained to me - wrap a rubber band around your pinky...

Yes, they've had a lot of rain and have lost some cattle but not a lot. It's back to being dry now.

So ... when you use the electric dehorner like that, Dave, does the horn just immediately fall off, fall off later, or do you cut it after that?

And my experience is just the opposite of Travlr. I kept the last twin heifer calves from a super nice Brangus and both of those heifer produced and I still have one of them. The other one died of tetanus but had a heifer calf at the time. I wasn't keeping replacements at that time so I sold...

What is that? I can't tell. I see it is electric, but I don't have electricity.

That's not a feasible solution to my questions at this time. Plus, I've learned from breeders that sometimes the genetics get it wrong on homozygous polled. My friends has a "homozygous" polled bull that produces horned calves. I told them he was not homozygous. But, that is for a different...