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Yellow fat could be from age but also from a number of other things. Yellow fat is usually a sign of carotenoids which some breeds store more readily than others so it could be the breed. Time of year also plays a part. If it were me, I would try the same thing again next year only I'd...

What do you mean by this? She's made contact with others? How?

Mine need flippers too. Put some hay out today and the ground is so saturated that the fire ants had climbed all over the bales to get out of the water so when I cut the wrap off the hay I got showered in fire ants. This was this morning and I just killed one at 6 pm. This is the side of...

In my state, you don't need cattle to reduce land taxes so this plays no part in my owning cattle. In my situation, cattle are simply a compliment to existing practices and offer another potential income source from the land. Granted, cattle can be a pain at times but the cost of not having...

I'm not a rancher so I look at things differently and my cost per cow isn't anywhere near these but cattle are but one facet of what I do with the land so I prefer to look at things from a per acre cost/profit and by doing it this way I'm able to compare apples to apples when comparing the best...

I'd agree with him. At that point it will continue to grow but not like it should. I made the mistake a few years ago to wait on more grass rather than cutting it. In the end I'd been better off cutting it because the wait cost me a cutting I think.

Amazing what a week with water can do for your grass. Seedhead formation would have me a little concerned though. Same thing happened to me a couple years ago after a drought and I waited too long thinking the grass would grow more when I should have just gone on and cut it and got a light...

My first cutting wasn't that bad but it wasn't good either. I'm convinced I have gremlins or goblins that come and mess with my shyt during the winter months because I put everything up in perfect working order yet it something is always wrong when I fire it up. Good thing is my stuff is old...

I did get a semi-truck full of range cubes, mineral and bagged feed once. It was condemned due to mice damage and they needed the truck empty by the end of the day and I told them I was their man to take this problem off their hands. Being generous I called everyone I knew who had cattle and...

If you are ever given a truck load of peanut butter don't fall into the temptation of thinking this would be great protein to mix into a ration because if you add a couple barrels of peanut butter into a mixer grinder and mix hay with it the result will be the largest dung beetle ball you've...

Cow manure is good stuff but the key is to let it compost and go through a heat. If you'll do that and not use green noncomposted manure you shouldn't have any problems with anything including weed seeds. Here is some I've been composting for a project I have in mind. It has cooked down...

That's bad. Did you know if you shoot low and split the lower belly of those black things and spread their innards out behind them it won't kill them but they can no longer fly and will just flail around on the ground and though the others will fly off they will come right back and fight the...

if its bermuda I suspect its most likely Tiftgreen or Tiftway which would suck for grazing. You'll need lots of Roundup. :2cents:

Yeah but consider your savings on income taxes. ;-)

The smell of cow blood gets my cattle upset. Especially bulls but in a couple days they forget about it.

Heck yeah I can milk but if you are going to get half and I'll pay the state and federal government 40% then that only leaves 10% which is supposed to go to the church and that isn't looking to good for me. Way I got it figured we are going to have to buy a bunch more cows to make it worth my time.

In Ohio you can sell milk by shares. Sell of raw milk for human consumption is illegal in Kentucky. Here is a link. https://milk.procon.org/view.resource.p ... eID=005192

Didn't think so but isn't there some legislation in the works that would allow you guys to sell shares? We can't do shares. Our department of agriculture even has a SWAT team they use to bust whole milk sales. Ridiculous.

Is this below the radar? Just curious.

Our state department of agriculture has a SWAT team that raids people for doing that. Its unbelievable. Someone mentioned control. IMO, its absurd that we live in a so called free country where men can identify as women and vice versa yet we do not have the freedom to make an educated...