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I've found that this is the best container for navel dipping umbilical cords with iodine on newborn calves. Wide mouth, ergonomic to hold on to and strong heavy plastic.

Next month NY State will start requiring a background check for ammo purchases. It will be done by the State Police and will cost you $2.50. If I could only pack up land and move it with me.

We are about halfway thru our calving season and the forecast calls for 7 straight days of rain. So, I set up the Boy Scout tent for a temporary calf shed. The smarter ones are starting to use it and hopefully the rest will be monkey see monkey do.

We found a cow trying to calve yesterday morning with a bad breach presentation. Calf's tail was only thing coming out, no feet. Cow had been in labor for several hours when we found her. She was sprawled out and bloated, thought she was dead when we walked up on her. Called the vet and they...

This is our group of replacement commercial simm-angus heifers. They are about 16 months old in these photos. Ran them with an Angus bull for the summer and just brought them home this weekend. They averaged 1060lbs at 18 months. The bottom one is my favorite that I'm very happy with. Let me...

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/buffalo/news/2022/07/29/cow-controversy-in-niagara-county A whole lot of drama going on here.

Is this the breed of the future?

Can anyone recommend a sale barn in the Hickory, NC area where someone could buy some feeder calves or stocker cattle. Relatives in the area have field/pastures that are really growing and can't find anyone who want to hay it. They don't have much equipment, but have good fences and want to get...

I was old by a vet once that the older a bull gets, the larger his calves will be, by the same cows. It didn't make any since because the genetics doesn't change with the bull as he grows? Has anyone else heard this or seen it in reality?

What is best for calf scours, oxytetracycline bolus of sulfa bolus?

Fed some nice timothy hay we baled the end of June. We diameter wrapped almost all our round bales this year, as we do not have space inside to store them. we have very little spoilage. Just darkened on the ends and a little rot on the very bottom. Still almost green just under the surface. We...

Had great weather to run our 50 head of feeder calves this weekend. We have a little better setup this year, so we're going to try weighing now at weaning/2nd vaccinating, and again after 30 days to see what growth we get. Does anyone else check weight changes thru weaning?

Has anyone had issues where putting a patch over a pinkeye made it worse? We've had a bad year for pinkeye, but only in one of our herds. The other herd is about 2 miles away on another farm and they are all clear. We've treaded about 80% of the cows and 50% of the calves. They get a show of...

I shake my head every time I see this in classified adds for hay for sale. The insinuation is that the mostly grass hay is superior and too good to feed to lowly cattle. Many are surprised when I ask them if they have better hay, we are looking for something to feed our beef cattle. We are picky...

We took advantage of the high percentage of heifer calves and lower prices last fall to keep back some replacements. We just got them back from a neighbor that boards them for us and they are looking really good. These are some of the best we've raised. They will be meeting the bull in a couple...

The calves like to nap as a group, especially when we spread some new bedding. We get a bit of a color mix with the Sim-Angus breeding.

Sent two cull cows last week to the local sale barn. They were in decent body shape, black and BWF. Averaged 1200 lbs and $.45/lb. Should have ground them for burger, but had no freezer space. :(

Rough day for calving season. Had to euthanize a good sized bull calf. You breath a sigh of relief when he's born without issue and feel even better to know he's nursed well and got his colostrum. Then the train left the tracks... Called the vet when we realized something was wrong the next...

I have an angus bull that we raised from a cow I bought from another herd. I'd like to use him to breed a group of 5 virgin heifers we raised, but one of them is an angus heifer out of another cow I bought from the same herd. They would be half brother and sister, different mothers, probably...

At a recent local feeder sale I notice some full Hereford calves came thru and they sold for considerably less than other black or crossbred stock, like 20-30 cents less. They weren't very many of them but a couple were in nice condition and I was surprised by the low price. I would have cried...