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Hi all, We are in outback Queensland, Australia and have a charolais/charbray cow herd. Speckle Park cattle have recently gained a lot of traction over here and we are considering buying some bulls. Does anyone have any photos of what colour cattle we could expect in the progeny? Would they...

Last week I pulled a calf out of a heifer. It wasn't a bad pull, once the head and shoulders came through, the rest of the calf fell out after about 10 seconds. The heifer bellowed mightily while I was pulling the calf and went down when the calf came out. She got up again when I opened the...

I'm hoping you fellas can give me some opinions.....we have about 200 mixed sex charolais weaners in a southern feedlot on a maintenance ration. The weaners weighed about 385lbs when they went in - much smaller than we usually wean them due to our drought conditions. After a month there, the...

My friesian x AIS (milking shorthorn) cow needs to be fed up well as she has two and soon to be three calves on her. There's some roughage in her paddock but nothing high-value as far as protein goes. I have plenty of split mungbeans, cottonseed meal and whole white cottonseed. She ignored...

We have the opportunity obtain some rolled mung beans as cattle feed. We've got some freshly weaned bulls we'd like to boost along and wonder if anyone has experience feeding mung beans?

An urgent phonecall from folk nearby - they picked up an at least four week premature braford heifer calf after it was born in the local saleyard to one of their own cows. They had frozen colostrum for her initial feeds and the calf has been thriving until two days ago. The calf is now ten...

I'm hoping someone can help me with some information about this bull. I've googled him and he's mentioned in various places, but can't find any photos or information. We have a de-registered stud cow by him - we've had her for about 6 years now. She's got a very nice bull calf this year whom...

Has anyone had experience with this particular scanner? Also, can anyone tell me what price they are in the USA or Canada? They're about $12,000 here in Australia - is this price comparable? (The US and Aus $ are about equal at the moment.) I've gone on line trying to price them but can't come...

We bought a Montana Silver-sired bull yesterday, 21 months old, polled and quiet. We didnt have to pay much for him and are very pleased with him. I can't find a picture of Montana Silver anywhere on the net - can anyone direct me to one? Will post a pic of our bull when I catch up with him...

I run a 2 yr old QH filly and an aged shetland mare together in a 200 ac paddock. Recently I introduced another pony mare for a few weeks and at first the QH filly kept her away from the old mare very vigorously but eventually eased off. One day I took the old mare out for the kids to ride...

Things are about as good as they can get here in our part of outback Oz! We had some good rain early December and another 250mm late Jan/early Feb. Lately we've been branding and weaning and its a pleasure to be out and about, working the stock. Hope you enjoy these photos....

We've been having trouble the last few months with little black ants attacking the eyes of our newborn calves, randomly throughout the paddocks. I think they're attracted to the moisture on the newly born calves as they swarm all over them but really get stuck into their eyes. I've found...

I don't know if this has been discussed on the boards before but I can't find reference to it. I read in an American magazine (maybe Western Horseman, not sure) about a method whereby calves about two months old are withheld from their mothers for forty eight hours or so to cause the cows to...

We've started putting some of the breeders through to brand and wean. The temperature was up to 44 degs C a few days ago but has fallen enough to allow us to make a start. The cows are not control mated by their main calving is around Oct/Nov. When we "digest" the weaners we've got in the...

This heifer calf is three weeks old (black brangus bull x char) and in a lot of pain. She was injured at birth when we pulled her from a heifer - she was stuck on her hips. Despite rotating her, greasing her liberally etc. there was no pretty way to get her out other than pulling her. She was...

This charbray heifer has been threatening to calve for the last 24 hours, restless, lying on her side intermittently, all bagged up. When there was no calf this morning, I put an arm in but she was very tight, not dilated at all, and quite dry. Her efforts have escalated during the day, she is...

We've taken the offer on a little mob of Devon and Devon x Gelbvieh cows. They're PTIC to Devon and Gelbvieh bulls, but we would want to then rejoin them to charolais. Has anyone done this who can tell me what the progeny will be like by the char bulls? I don't know a lot about Devon, there's...

Don't forget it's winter here Downunder, hence the woolly coats. Our cows are all commercial cows and the calves are multi-sired by charolais and charbray bulls. We do not control mate. Some calves are ready to wean, as you can see. I've tried to get the pics the right size, but if not...

Don't forget it's winter here Downunder, hence the woolly coats. Our cows are all commercial cows and the calves are multi-sired by charolais and charbray bulls. We do not control mate. Some calves are ready to wean, as you can see. I've tried to get the pics the right size, but if not...

Was over visiting the neighbours and they had brought home a very small (but probably fairly normal for a brahman) heifer calf about a day old, a few hours before. They found it lying next to its mysteriously dead mother (cow in excellent condition, but dead!) Not sure how long the calf had...