Recent content by farmerjan

High Choice, Low Prime... More like it would go prime in the store. My Jersey beef goes prime most all the time... Looks good.

Glad to see you post. Sorry for the rough times... Prayers for your sister, hope that you can somehow enjoy the visit and be glad to be back to see her and I think you have other family there. :hugs:hugs🙏🙏🙏

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Those are made for smaller calves... you can do up to a 250-300 lb calf with them...they stretch pretty good to a size... and with calves you often pull one side at a time through when they are larger.... anything big or more mature we use the callicrate bander... or some use a "california...

So very sorry for these people... Flooding is horrible, but for the river to come up that fast from basically nothing is even worse. Prayers for all the people there.

Happy Father's Day to the dads on here, to the memories of dad's that have gone to their just rewards... and to all those that mentored or tutored or stood in as a dad figure in someone's life. Thank you to all who have stepped up one way or another...

Find a store, area that caters to mennonites and some of the more "modern amish".... they do not like or have all the electronic stuff... If I ever have to buy a gas stove again, it will come from PA where there are alot of amish and mennonites... NO electronic ignition on the stoves... no...

Manual one that has the wafer??? The wafer is going bad... they do that.. All the local farm supply stores here local do not keep them in stock. I just ordered some from Jeffers (Or Valley vet?? ) because the incubators that DS has as well as the brooders in the "battery tower" are all wafer...

Chilly 46 overnight here. Much cooler than normal, for a good part of May with LOTS of rain... Had nearly 9 inches for the month... 3-4 is normal... CRAZY since we were way behind in moisture and warmer than normal prior to May coming in... Wanted to move the Turkey poults out to the calf...

I had no idea either...

May as well milk something that you like to look at..... She is kinda pretty...

My first preference is for a guernsey cow. But they are hard to find now, and have been bred to the point of being so frail in comparison what the "old style" farmstead guernsey was. They are not milk wagons and therefore do not lend themselves to the commercial type dairying that farmers are...

One other thing, the polled gene is dominant... So if the cow has horns, and the bull is polled... unless the bull has a recessive horn gene, the calves will all be polled first generation. Any horned animal can be dehorned... if adult and horns are large, the vet can do a nerve block, horns...

My opinion... couple of things comes to mind. The bull can breed any cow he can reach... so that means pretty much any cow. More often than not they all put that belt on the calf... and unless you go with a black holstein or a cross, the calf will be red. Not important for color as you do not...

Bater , long A.... is short for incubator... against the "grain" to talk about an incubator in the natural egg hatching thread... ie... hen hatching...