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Over on Facebook, there was a post about how nice people are in registered Hereford business. I am thinking they must have not been in the game very long to talk that way. For those who have been around registered cattle of any breed, we are well aware of shady dealings. The thing to remember...

Wh The problem is that we all don't operate in the same environment. A cow that does well in a low input environment will blow up on good feed and a cow that is accustomed to living high on the hog will starve in the desert.

Could you share the pedigree?

Here are some pictures of some F1 Barzona x Red angus calves. Adds heat tolerance and hybrid vigor without adding ear. Unfortunately, the Barzona is all but a dead breed. I am looking at other alternative breeds that gain heat tolerance from African genetics rather than Indian.

She looks like Bonsma's example of what not to breed.

I have a good friend runs several hundred purebred cows, collects all the data, has a grow safe on his place. He told me that over the past twenty years the EPD's have gone up but the weaning weights have stayed the same. I personally don't use EPD's because it is simply impossible to have an...

The most astute observation, I heard about the avian flu was that it dropped the cattle futures. I wonder who was short cattle at the time of the announcement.

The sad thing is that I wouldn't be inclined to lease a place like that. What inevitably happens is you fix a place up, get things straightened out and then one of the owner's sixty years old spoilt brats gets jealous and get's you booted off and your name run through the dirt. I am done with...

Gnrh basically pops any follicles that have started to develop and creates a corpus luteum. If the time of the cycle is right an egg would be released for timed breeding. PG, lutalyse causes the CL to regress bringing about heat in a few days. A Cidr provides progesterone in place of a cl so...

On rebreeds, you are stuck breeding off of an observed heat because the that’s to the only way to ensure that the cow is open. There is a protocol to put cidr’s in two weeks after the first service to line things back up for round two.

For a commercial herd the benefits of cross breeding are too great to ignore. I have had the idea to do a three breed maternal rotation cross using Hereford, Red Angus and Beefmaster AI, then cleaning up with a terminal continental bull. I would sort the cows based on phenotype to ensure that...

If you have to use a hot shot you are doing things too fast. First it is important to get in the right frame of mind. Turn off the Chris Ledoux and put on some Conway Twitty : Lay you down, Slow hand you've never been this far before.... A half dozen panels and a few flakes of hay is that is...

When I was a kid, we had a bull inadvertently breed a bunch of his daughters because the bull that was supposed to breed those females turned out to be a dud. The calves where for the most part ok but there were a few that didn't keep up. Those are the ones that we saw. There is a hidden...

It would be helpful to know where you are and what type of stock you are planning to graze.

I bought a priefert head gate and palpation cage along with some panels that works pretty well and panels generally have good resale value. It is all light enough that a person or two could set up and tear down.

I think it would be better to buy open yearling heifers in the fall and finish them just before their second birthday. At that point they have grown enough frame to finish out quickly and a lot of times they will bring the same price as a calf a year younger. I when feeding out animals on full...

No, brewer's grain has a higher level of protein When beer is brewed maltase converts starch to sugar which yeast convert into alcohol. All the protein and minerals in the grain remain, so the percentage of protein in the grain is increased. Because the mineral levels are higher, I would add...

I did that protocol with some heifers a couple of years ago except I didn’t give the shot of lute when I pulled the CIDRs. Worked pretty well to move up the heats without having them all come in at the same time.