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Wonder if it's more stress on you or your pig! Must be frustrating dealing with the heat--good luck

They look great--good luck with the calving! I bet your folks are some proud of you and glad they let you get cattle!:)

:thumbsup on the grass! I think you may be in for a huge surprise when you start separating your calf. My heifer freshened a week ago today. On day 2, I got almost 20lbs a.m. and p.m. with the calf feeding. By day 4, I was down to 8.25lbs. I started separating at night and this morning I...

They are beautiful! I didn't realize Dexters were that big and beefy!

This is RTG's scour page. Hope it helps. I am still having trouble with getting my pages to show in the correct form for other browsers. Heres is the info on the page: Scours in a calf Scours can and will kill a calf, and will do it quickly. Be alert for scours, and be prepared to react...

I couldn't access your link (it's usually me!), but have been reading a lot of his blogs. We have quite a few members here who are pasturing their pigs and exploring different feeding programs. Welcome to BYH--have seen some of your other posts and am looking forward to reading more! My...

What, none of you have any 'pink guilts'? :D

Are you going to get your bull castrated? According to my butcher, it does make a difference.

So look what Peanut gave me for my birthday--it's her first calf, a bull.:D

I haven't raised a straight Holstein, but usually raise 1/2 H., half Jersey. The last one I had looked like his mama (H.) and was probably the best beef we've ever had. He was also the fattest, despite not being finished on grain, but we had really good grass last fall. He was 18 months. The...

I wouldn't switch around with different feeds at this point--I'd give her calf starter and that's it. If you decide to go up on her milk, just go up a VERY little at a time, like 8 oz mixed up and see how she does over 3 days with that. Good poop in a dairy calf is a thing of beauty :lol...

But then it depends on how much nutrition they are getting from pasture, right? If you think they're too fat, I would think you could cut back. My friends that free fed last year (fat pigs) this year are not feeding them grain until they've done a good job on their veggies (they're vegetable...

Del Reo? Glad you were home for the birth!:)

I believe the rough formula is one pound of grain per every month of age up to 4lbs per day. I used this on my Berkshire/Tamworth crosses, subtracting a little if they got a lot of milk, quite often they probably got more calories than that but never less. They really eat a lot of grass and...

Nice! I tell my sow she has a snout like a giant vole, but think yours has her beat!

This is Royd's bbq thread: www.backyardherds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=20580

I think it was last fall that Royd Wood barbecued a whole pig and then had like pulled pork sandwiches, some with sauce, some not. Guess anything that if you had a lot of leftovers you could freeze. What if you had on your flyer something that mentioned 'open farm' as well as barbecue and...

Or let loose some biological disease that's supposed to kill rats, but they don't completely understand the final ramifications of.:rolleyes:

Were you going to have a theme? Like apples/cider pressing? Or a heritage type? I would think if you planned for the food, they'd come, and people are more apt to rsvp if they know you have to plan on feeding them.

Oh, I love the part where she does the drive-by on the chicken!:lau