Hello, I'm curious to know if there are any brangus or ultra black cattle farms/herds in Washington or PNW?

Can anyone recommend a good durable cattle ear tag!? The ones we have are rolling up and fading. Tired of changing tags.

Hi everyone,

My mom just got this horse in a trade recently without much history on him. What we know is he’s a 5 year old gelding shipped from “out west”. She is located in southern Michigan.

There’s not a lot of branding that goes on here, it’s not common even for cattle in this area. So I thought I’d reach out here to see if anyone knows where this brand belongs to or any possible history for this horse related to his brand!

Thanks.

I have a 4 year old cow with a recurring hoof problem being that she needs regular trims which are very costly. She is due to calf any day now. I have the butcher coming to do another animal shortly and I am thinking about having the cow done at same time.

The ideal scenario would be that the calf is born, left on the cow for colostrum and then taken off the cow to be bottle raised and the cow slaughtered.

Has anyone ever eaten a cow shortly after calving and what was the eating quality like? Should I pay the money to have her butchered properly or is she better off as dog food?

Hello,
I work at a 1500 head farm (I don’t work on the milking team but I come in to help and then do fresh cows and sick cows.
At the previous barn where I worked only in the parlour, we would play music and I found that cows had better attitudes and were calmer.
I’m wondering if anyone has had a similar experience.
I want this place to do the same as music has shown to improve other things in cows (I’m an RVT - I’ve read a few studies)
I just want some more opinions

They look so sleek on our chars 😮‍💨

(Herd pictures for attention,)

my show season with my first 4h heifer is offically over and I’ll be starting to work/fatten up my next one first of November she’ll be about 3 & a half months of age when I get her.

i started my first heifer on Goliath but it made her very crazy like excess energy that I didn’t know what to deal with, she was getting roughly 4lbs of it a day. she was fed that for a month then we put her on BOC with molasses and beet pulp at shows. She had access to a mineral lick, hay and water 24/7.

the boc filled her out but she didn’t get that kinda chubby look i was told to aim for by more experienced people. So in short what do people recommend feeding? I can’t exactly get like those custom mixed feeds since the only place near me does it in bulk and I only got one heifer to feed lol

she’ll be shown in confirmation and not market, she’s also a Hereford if that makes an difference. I can buy multiple feeds to feed her but I don’t wanna be feeding like 5 different things at once/daily if that makes any sense.

thank you :D

Moved my cattle off the summer pastures to higher ground where they have a smaller lot with 3 sided shelter for the winter. The lower pasture while larger, has a tendency to flood in late fall/early spring.

I hate this time of year as it means snow will be here soon and ill be lugging water :( It also means I'm just a few months away from processing our first beef! So excited for that!

I got hurt pretty bad this week in a cattle handling job. Not hard to figure out where but I handle 70-1200 cattle 1-2 days a week. Earlier this week I got berated by owner for having multiple other jobs. Then got hurt, not bad but bad enough to effect my ability to continue working without getting hurt further. I told 3 lower supervisors and got ignored, while cattle continued to be pushed into my control. After 1 1/2 to 2 hours, low and behold I got injured again. Neither super major, I'll recover but my mobility is going to be pretty limited for a week or 2. Why do we continue to push our volume of beef production so hard with these dynamics? What should I really do to self advocate here?? I'm not new, I'm not inexperienced... But I've grown really bitter and cynical about the industry. I got limited workman's comp now but it's only covering urgent care and small pharmacy bill. It's not covering lost wages, already limited living arrangement, and challenges to taking care of myself. I don't think the math adds up, or ever has. At this point, I'm ready to get away from beef work for good.

One is not like the others. She is a big pet and brings the rest in with her.

Finally getting rain in oklahoma

Hi all, we are a very small scale operation. Basically back yard farmers, with a plan to raise a beef for ourselves yearly, and 2 others to sell off to cover operation costs, so 3 calves to the butcher a year. We are on our second year so currently own 6 head. We’ve gotten bottle bulls from a local farmer and so far managed to keep them all healthy. We banded this year’s calves about 2 weeks ago. Yesterday one of them was down with a fever and limb stiffness. Vet came out and strongly suspected tetanus, so gave antibiotics, steroids and tetanus antitoxin. He is up today which is reassuring. Our initial plan was to attempt antibiotic, and vaccine free and as close to grass fed as possible, we’re keeping a closed herd, all calves coming from the same farm and staying in the same pasture so it seemed doable and logical until yesterday. I know…cue the judgment.
Vet stated he should have been vaccinated for tetanus when we banded. Obviously hindsight is 20/20. What are the odds of this? how do we navigate going forward? Would still like to attempt this plan to the best of our ability but also prioritizing the wellbeing of our livestock.

Calf is 1 month old. Umbilical is still red & moist & bleeding at times as the mother will not stop licking it. She's obsessed.

The calf looks healthy & lively and drinks very well. It doesn't look overly tired or weak.

We had a similar situation with another calf in the past and it took up to 2 mths for it to heal.

Do I just let nature take it's course? I can't see anyway to get her to stop licking it apart from separation which is not very manageable.

8 month jersey steer. Was bottle baby on local raw milk. He’s on pasture but it’s fairly overgrazed as this point. I just dewormed him but it had been a few months. We’re in middle TN. Fall is approaching and I started giving him good quality grass hay but when I do he looks like a balloon. This photo is morning, before he had anything other than pasture. Just worried his belly looks so ginormous. Do I worm again?