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I implant all my steer calves with Ralgro when I band them near birth. They get a second dose at vaccination time. Never seen an ear problem with them. I like the results but when you do the all it's hard to give specifics. I've never kept a control group of the same calves.

Definitely good bird country. I've hunted a lot of that area too.

Thanks for sharing. That's good looking quail country! I've killed a lot of birds from Elk City to Cheyenne to Guymon over the past 35 years!!

I definitely agree with the 2 prong approach Lucky recommended. I've had 2 vets who do nothing but cattle strongly suggest that approach. It pays off. Safeguard + Cydectin for me for the ones that need it in the spring.

That's AWESOME I don't care who says otherwise!!! I want to move pastures that way but they're 6 miles apart and you'd have to go right through the middle of town. I suspect they'd frown on it!

I'm late to the party so I see you've applied a remedy. I did this exact thing to a big trough 2 years ago. Used a wire wheel on a battery driver to clean it a little and used the spray can flex seal at the seam inside and out. Two years later and no leaks.

Thanks for the replies!

My bull is slated to go in with them Friday. These heifers are Feb and March 2020 heifers and average 800lb. They will calve at the house and will be watched very close. I just don't know what the CED and BW tendencies are for Maine cattle.

Got to my south place yesterday and found a yearling, horned, black Maine bull in with my commercial Red Angus heifers. He's back where he belongs now but we think he had been with my heifers 3 days. Let's assume for argument he bred several. I know nothing about Maines except what I've seen...

Silver hit the nail on the head as to ehy I have them palpated, though I have considered trying to change up a little and just do a blood test.

I'm disappointed TC had to call out their own thread about the ear tags. Any time I post a calf pic that's the first thing people call me out for!!! :p I agree though about them growing into them and with my vision I need all the help I can get!!!

My vets do nothing but cattle and when I need them, I REALLY need them. I'd love to do my own preg checking but I can't. The only thing I really need it for is to tell me if she's bred or not. No need to keep an open cow on my place. I have a 60 day window now that I worked hard to get to so...

I was pretty worried about the BSE this year due to the extreme cold roughly 60 days ago. It caught me more off guard than it should have and I had no real bedding down. However, this was yesterday's results. SC was 43, >90% normal morphology, and M4 concentration. My vet does almost nothing...

Here is my latest personal experience. I had a yearling bull last year. BSE was done within days of him being a year old. At that time his SC was 38. I put him on 5 heifers in late April which later calved in a 2 week period. I turned him in with 13 older cows in May. All but one of those...

Thanks for the comments! I briefly explained the heifer probs in another post in February, but that darkest red (now) cow is my favorite cow on the place. Her calf died for completely unknown reasons 36 hours after birth (probably stepped on). Another heifer had a bag out. I walked away and...

Had the worst heifer calving year I could possibly imagine, but had a few that made it good.

I wish I was only at 75%. New bull for me too. Not done yet, but 12 heifers and 2 bull calves so far and I prefer to buy replacement heifers!!!

Congrats! That's awesome. I need me one of those!!

I don't know anything about dairy cattle but I kept a really nice bull from an AI mating. Debated on keeping his momma but I did. He breeds her and I've had no issues. I wont keep any of those offspring though.

I got down to my south place this weekend. Found the hand had broke or cut the ice in a couple of places for stock to drink. However, the cattle had been walking all over the pond as evidenced by the manure smack in the middle of the pond. That scares me to death for what happens this week...