Get help. I started feeding my 2 heiffers in the stall in the morning so i could get them shut in. Then I backed my stock trailer up to the stall. Iplanned out in advance for this I built all the stalls so they would open."They are just gaits set up to swing open so they open out to the door...
Try going to a grain processing plant and buying wet feed or dry feed. I get it for 60 a ton and feed my cows 1/2 a 5 gallon bucket each a day. They graze for the rest of their food. Hay is given only in the winter before the grass is going good.
I am from the central area of Il..Just about 10 miles so& east of peoria, "Treamont" if you have ever heard of it.We mainly do chickens cows and a couple of horses.
Bottle nursing is sweet and forms a bond I did not know would exist with a cow, but it is inconveinient as far as conflicting scheduals go. This little calve was born by c section and the dam was uthinized after birth.We have become very attached to her but time for the feeding is not as easy to...
I have 6 week old nursing calf and need to get info. I red somewhere that if you start a calf on a bucket the rumen may not readily activate. I am wondering if I switch to a bucket with the milk will she still get the required nurishment.
I have tried it already and she downs 2 times as much in...
Of course, there is no perfect bull (just as there is no perfect man. Oh wait---the guy who dated my wife before she married me was perfect----- but I digress).
My wife married the perfect man. Just ask me and I can verify.She knows her opinion is just what I tell her?She will never see this...
good day to you fellow chicken wrangler
I also do the byc and frequent the coffees ready thread daily.I have gotten good advice from the folks here to take care of my cows.You will like it here if you decide to get some yard ornaments that are mobile and poop like mine do.
I am having my heffers bred with a large dexter bull. Ithought this would be good for the first calf since it would be small and make calving easier for a new dam. What is your opinion.