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@farmerjan thank you for your reply, it is amazing what you saw in those pictures! Lesson learned, I need to take better pictures :) Your comment about 77 and her big tweets is spot on with what the vet said. Also, you didn’t hurt my feelings about the steer. So glad we cut him cause he...

One more piece of info, since I have 35 bales, was going to keep 8 bred cows and the steer over the winter. I think with the grass, I shouldn’t run out of hay. We don’t typically have much snow covering the grass in the winter, 4-6 weeks at the most usually.

Turns out my picture taking skills favor some animals over others, and I think some are missing, but you get the idea ;-) Cow pics are below. This is actually our steer, he will go in the freezer. He is a wooly bugger so don’t really want his babies anyway. I bet he’ll taste fine though...

Hi everyone, I’m still here :-D. Thought I’d post an update and another thank you to this group for the advice last winter. We had 7 calves this year, one in September (2), one in October (3) and the rest very close together in February (4,5,6,7,8). Our 2 bred heifers (56, 57) had no problems...

Going back to @farmerjan s comments, I was going to suggest food. Let him know what a feedbucket is, and let him come to you. My Dad would hollar “sooooouuup” and rattle a couple cubes in a plastic bucket and every bovine on the place would come running. After feeding them, just hang around...

Thanks! I’d rather have all little boys since steers seem to bring more at the sale. But they are healthy so I’ll take it

So we had another calf three days ago from one of our two pregnant heifers. She had no apparent problems and we have a healthy hungry girl (first pic). I was headed back to the house from the top pasture, and I notice the other heifer off by herself headed towards the woods. I looked where...

I like reading your posts, it looks like you take great care of your animals. I’m sorry to hear about the lost calves :-(

Haha, yeah we usually don’t hug ours. Except two winters ago when a calf got out and was running down the road, I had to jump out of the truck and tackle it. I laid there in the ditch hugging it tightly until Dad got there. I’m sure it looked funny with my Dad driving, me riding shotgun and the...

Btw @farmerjan i think we now have a nursery :-). All the young calves were sleeping around the new mama yesterday while the other mamas came up to eat. Every parent needs a babysitter occasionally!

Our 3rd calf of 2019. Another healthy girl from older cow. We have been so blessed this calving season to not have any issues. Two more to go from our heifers. Fingers crossed

Thanks for the good advice @farmerjan. I do trust this one good enough, but I couldn’t get much closer cause she’d just take it off farther and farther away from me. She kept it far away from the herd for the first two days. Luckily we’ve got a small enough herd that I’m getting to know...

Our second calf of the year, a hungry baby boy! He’s three days old here. Came from a very protective mature cow. Hope the next three are this easy :-)

First calf of the year! A hungry little girl. Calf and cow both seem to be doing fine. Went out this morning and saw her in the field. Came from a good experienced cow. So glad there were no issues

Since you mentioned chickens a couple of times, here is what a full time chicken operation looks like around here. You’ll most likely buy and sell to Tyson. It’s tough, dirty work in the chicken houses. From what I hear, you end up just basically working for the corporate machine and you take...

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Oh yeah I hear ya. My grandparents have land on the river, and about every 4-5 years they are replacing washed out fence, and running off the new pack of school kids who found a new place to party :-(

Just an opinion from a novice, but pastures are work to keep up on also. We have ~15 acres of wooded land the cows have access to. Some oaks, and afaik, we haven’t had too much issues (probably depends on the type of oaks also, I believe we have red oak that make a small acorn). We also have...

Thanks again @greybeard, that also looks like a great site for info. I watched the videos you posted, and am going to town today to pick up all the supplies to have them on hand.

Thank you so much @greybeard, I’ll start studying those tonight. Also, I seem to recall some OB chains (and maybe a calf jack) hanging on the barn wall. I just didn’t know what I was looking at before :(