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I asked this question on Agtalk as well, so anyone that reads both sites bear with me. We are currently dry rolling barley for a backgrounding ration. We are looking at moving into finishing more of our own cattle and I was studying more on feeding barley in finishing diets last night. I came...

We are looking at raising flax and using it in our backgrounding diets. From all of the research papers that I have read it looks like we will need to roll it in order to get any good out of it. Does anyone here have experience with processing flax? I plan on using an Automatic roller mill...

We have lots of corn stalks that need grazed this year that had more wind and weed damage than normal. As a result we have a lot more corn down than normal and more corn down than roughage left in the fields. I am really concerned about having enough roughage to keep the cows full so they...

Calving is about 75% done and I can actually start to think about other things. Here are a few pictures I took today while checking for new babies. The last three slackers of my first calf heifers. We exposed every yearling heifer last year through natural service. I turned the bulls in for...

I have a few bred heifers that need sold and I was wondering what websites you guys have used that you have had success with. I put an ad up on cattle-exchange, but wondered if there were some others that might get me a better response.

Daddy day care yesterday means the kids have to help water cows, check cows, and give pre-calving lepto and dewormer shots. They are willing and with a little patience on my part, alright make that a lot of patience, we ran through 124 hd in a couple hours. Overall it went pretty good. The...

It needs to be big enough to hold all of my cows and calves and various other pets that might need loaded. When I went out to feed this morning there were ducks swimming in my feedlot and the steers were having trouble finding a place to lay down. We woke up to snow this morning on top of...

I was working calves yesterday and had a four year old cow have a little scrub of a calf that weighed all of 49 pounds. It sure seemed like there should be a twin somewhere but I couldn't find it. Tonight when I went out to check there was a little runt of a calf with hollow sides a couple...

We have an enormous problem this winter thanks to persistent wind and a massive amount off tumbleweeds. I found one company listing a fence cleaner made in ND but when I called on it I nearly swallowed my tongue when he told me he wanted $25,900 FOB for it. So I am planning on trying to make...

We have a base RA herd and have been using some red Sim for crossbreeding. I purchased a bull three years ago out of STF Dominance and one out of Top Gun. They had a day long trailer ride to get to our place. When we let them out they were on the prod and wouldn't let us get close to them...

We have a lot of weaned steer calves listed on tomorrow's Superior sale. Base weight 525, weaned first of November, Vac 45, Source and Age through IMI Global. I can't imagine what purebred breeders go through on sale day. The couple times a year that I have cattle up for auction always...

I don't know if you have noticed, but H hasn't been posting here much lately. It is because he has been traveling. Today he was in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Its true, I have pictures...at least of his pickup. There are three of them in there. I guess he needed to travel a ways to purchase new...

We turned out bulls the first of August. Dakota Copper sons Dakota Copper son These are three of our purchased bulls. The one in the middle is a Top Gun son, he is purebred Simmental. The other two are purebred Red Angus. Red Ceasar sons More Red Ceasar sons One of my favorites out of...

We used this bull on our heifers last summer. They were synced and mass bred on the first day of August. If the chart I have is right they should be due on May 12, but I had four today and three a couple of days earlier. Has anyone else used him that can comment on a rather short gestation...

I found you a theme song to start all of your meetings with. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQEhMbKJJko

These are some pictures I found on my trail cam when I switched out memory cards Friday.

I have read much of the propaganda about Multimin and have had our vet suggest a couple of times that it might help us with a couple of health issues that we are dealing with. What I am interested in is hearing from people that are using it and what problems that you are trying to address with...

Over the last couple years there has been some discussion here about DNA profiling. I haven't utilized this tool yet but am planning to for sire determination. Igenity has a replacement heifer panel that they offer. What I am wondering is if anyone has utilized that particular test and what...

For you guys that have these pounders, I am needing some advice. I have the side mast 3-point model. I don't seem to have the hydraulic capacity that I need on the pounder. The oil level is fine and the pump seems to be running fine, no external leaks, but I can't hardly get it to slide the...

For those of you that are using some form of DNA testing for sire determination, what companies are you using? In addition to that question, what form of sample are you submitting?