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How long would you expect to see results after giving Bo-Se to a 2 month old beef calf? He has been looking stiff in his back legs for the last week or two.

Anyone have experience with premie calves? Calf was born 25/26days early. It's about 2 hrs old and isn't trying to stand even when lifted up. Bottle fed it colostrum and it drank good. Took it to house because it feels like 25° outside and we are getting day 3 of snow/rain. Figured it wouldn't...

Cow is acting like she is early stages of calving (kind of) but I don't believe she is due for 25 more days. Tonight she went to the back of the pasture for a bit during feeding time and has been acting restless ever since. That was about 7 hrs ago. Has bagged some but not tight like she...

Short version: Will a newborn calf pee if it hasn't nursed yet??? Long version: Bull calf was born this morning and I went from being convinced it hasn't nursed to now thinking maybe it has and its frusterating the heck out of me! Obviously its real important if it hasn't gotten colostrum...

Looking for some thoughts on this bull. Strengths and weaknesses. He is almost 14 months old and will be going out with the herd in about another month. This is the first time using a young one so hoping it goes well. A little worried about the amount of cows he needs to cover.

We had to switch bulls mid season back in 2021 due to our first bull getting injured. There was just one calf, a heifer, born in 2022 that we are unsure of who the sire is. For us it doesn't matter a whole lot but sometimes I get really curious so thought I would get guesses here... Bull #1...

One of our older beef cows had a heifer calf early Tuesday morning. Calf is quite small and momma has some pretty large teats. Part way through the day we decided that calf hadn't nursed but she was exploring so we remained hopeful. We decided to bottle feed her some colostrum. She only got...

Some might have seen my post the other day about a newborn calf (born Mar 4th) having nursing issues but looked healthy. Well yesterday she started to look sick so we decided to pull her from mom since that wasn't working anyways. Took her temp and it was 104. Looked a little dehydrated but not...

Found a new heifer calf Friday at 4am. Was drived off, laying down and all seemed good. Couldn't get real close to it at all that day cause mom would trot off with her when I got close. Saturday morning calf and mom when way back in the pasture with the herd and calf looked nice and spunky so no...

We got a new 3 yr old bull and he has been with our herd for a few weeks now. I've noticed vaginal bleeding from 3 heifers after he has bred them. I haven't seen blood from any of the cows. Is this bull just being too rough with the heifers? Every year we have a few 1st time heifers and I've...

We have a herd of 25 cows and we bought a new bull this spring. We normally get yearling bulls but we really liked this bull (he is 6) and his offspring. He was semen checked before we bought him and checked out good. Well he has been with our cows since May 31st and its not looking good! So far...

We have had our herd for about 5 years and we have always sprayed navels with iodine shortly after birth. Until this year we used a 1 or 2% iodine solution because that was the only option at our farm store. This year I did some hunting and got a 7% solution because I thought it was better...

We had our herd preg checked last fall and this cow was said to be 3 months along however last Monday on 4/5, she appeared to be in heat (stood for mounting by other cows) and so I figured she must have aborted her calf at some point. She is an old cow and has a somewhat strange udder...it never...

We have a angus cross cow that was confirmed bred by a vet last fall. She wasn't AI'd so I don't have an exact due date although I do make note of I happen to see a cow in heat/bred by the bull...I thought she was due today but she hasn't bagged up (maybe slightly started too) so I was assuming...

All of our beef calves are in the 6-7month old age. We just ran the herd through the chute last weekend to vaccinate and bull calves were cut. Would like to wean them soon but wondering how long after working them we should wait. Mostly concerned about the added stress on the calves that were...

We have a few beef steers that are going to the butcher at the end of December. They are about 17 months old right now. Starting this summer they have had all the ground corn they can eat with 32% protein pellets mixed in (roughly 2lbs of pellets per animal) as well as pasture/grass hay...

We have one jersey cow that we are treating as a beef cow. She just calved yesterday and today I see that her calf has very watery scours. Is it likely that it's from mommas rich milk? Our other beef calves (that are actually beef breeds) have been fine since they were born 1-2 weeks ago. I...

We are in northern US and it has gotten bitter cold this week. I have a 2+ month old calf that is still with mom and with the herd. They have shelters but they aren't in them much. I noticed the calfs ears suddenly look different today. She's black but now the upper part of her ears look a...

I'm wondering if this is likely scours or if it is ok yet. Its looser than what I am comfortable with but it's still got some substance to it. Until a few days ago her poop was very very dark brown and was very hard. She almost seemed a bit constipated. She has been on her dam since day one and...