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The stocking rate here, on Bahia grass, April - October, is 1.5 - 2 units per acre. I rent part of my acreage to a peanut farmer in exchange for $150 per acre. I use this $150 per acre to purchase hay at $30 per roll. Plus I roll 700 or so bales of Coastal Bermuda hay each Summer. I typically...

Had my favorite bull tested last week. I was having calves born from him every week, I just wanted to have him tested because I like to do so once per year or so. I took him to the new, local, female veterinarian that just opened. He came back "No Good", 84% dead cells. I couldn't believe it. I...

I have a steel Circle W, 24X6.8, two axle. I love it. I have abused it and not taken very good care of it for many years and it is still as solid as a rock. If I didn't have one I would go buy one tomorrow.

You can get the capsules for $2 a shot from Jeffers.com. But you have to buy 150 of them. It's the best buy I have found. The treatment works for me for a couple of weeks but I've never seen it work for 5-6 weeks like some proclaim. As the flies are worse on my bulls, I shoot them two times...

I am now 47 years old. When I graduated high school in 1987 I received around $1,000 cash in graduation gifts. I added $400 I saved by bagging groceries at the local Piggly Wiggly grocery store. I spent the approximate $1,400 at the local sale barn on three heavy bred heifers. I borrowed my...

Ps. I don't know why the photos are sideways. I really don't have enough sense to work this computer. I can barely turn it on. Good luck yall!

I held back 40 heifers last year. I waited until they were 15 months old and turned them in with a 5 year old Horned Hereford bull. I bought the bull from a friend based on his calving ease and previous calving track record with heifers. I was blessed! The last one was born yesterday. 40, that's...

Thank all of you for your input. I agree with all of you. I talked to him today. It went surprisingly well. He told me he is very low on hay and didn't plant any Winter grazing, so he was going to have to sell some cows anyway. I offered to sell him some hay and he said "naw, it'd be better if I...

Yes, standing up. I run them through my squeeze chute and catch them in the head catch. I don't squeeze them though because when you do it forces their legs together and makes it really hard to get to the testicles. My chute has the half inch tubing sides you can let down as many or as few as...

Yesterday I worked 68 weanling calves. Of the 68, 37 were bull calves, which I castrated with my pocket knife. As I was running them through the squeeze chute I remembered the very first bull calves I castrated, it was a delightful and funny memory. It was 1988 and I was 19 years old. I only had...

My Mother's best friend is Beth. Beth has 160 acres of fenced and cross fenced pasture within 2 miles of my place. The pasture has been rented for 8 years by an older gentleman (90 years old) who is my friend. He never applies lime or fertilizer and never does any fence maintenance. He has 80...

If I can band it within a week of birth I use the little green cheerios. Otherwise I knife cut. Sometimes a younger calf's testicles will be smushy, almost like jello. These are hard to cut. I tie a shoe string around the top to hold the testicles down before I made the incision. When I get him...

Thank all of you for your replies and your help. I was able to find and purchase a bale bed truck and now I don't know how I ever made it without one. I have cattle in three different places and when I leave my house, go to each pasture, and back home it's a 40 mile trip. While it is not within...

Oh, and by the way, for you to search the craigslist in your area for me is awesome. Thank you for doing that!

Thank all of you for your help. To be honest I never thought about an after market power window kit. I have two Chevrolet trucks that I've had for several years, one has manual, the other power windows. I prefer the power, that's all. It seems to me like GM put the crank too dang low on the...