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I'm currently working on getting a BS in Animal Science. I'm only a sophmore but the animal science classes I have had so far have been extremely interesting. I just finished a companion animals class in the spring and it was extremely interesting. Looking at the amount jobs pay with an animal...

The fair where I sold steers is kind of like Jill's. Right after weigh in, you have to fill out a contract on what to do with the animal if it goes for resale (slaughter, auction, or take it home). A guy comes and decides an approximate amont that the group on average would bring at market (they...

That must have been one good pie!  (clapping)

I'm cheap. I pick orchard grass and leaves and feed it to my heifers (they love it though). We've feed them turnups before too and they seemed to like them. A friend of mine cuts up apples into small pieces and feeds them to his steers all the time. Mine seem to like orange kool-aid pretty...

I showed a yellow char x simme heifer before and used Sullivan's Bright Lights and it really made her look clean and it didn't take any of her natural color out. Got a lot of comments like "How'd you get that heifer so clean?" too.  ;D It also works well on baldy faces and white spots. So I'd...

Last winter once when my dad and I were rolling roundbales out to the cows (because our tractor is really old with no lift and doesn't work half the time) I somehow got one of the strings caught around my leg. I got my leg sliced pretty bad but luckily the bale didn't start rolling yet. Then...

Those are pretty halters. I wouldn't mind having one but with black leather and red rhinestones. That would look pretty cool on a black heifer.  8) I have some friends that show riding horses. They have all kinds of bling. They even out glitter in their horse's hair.

I ordered from their Iowa store a couple weeks ago and it came in quick.  ???

I have a wooden show box. I built it myself in ag class. I painted it with a dark stain and sealed it. I also painted a picture of some steers on it more recently.  It's heavy but I guess this way I don't have to worry about it getting stolen.  ;)

I use orchard grass and clover mix for my cattle. But for this winter, we already bought some fescue too because it was good and cheap (because of the flood back in March, we didn't get fertiziler down in time).

I'm 19 (almost 20) and my family has been raising cattle waaayyy before I came along. I didn't get my very own first heifer until 2003 though, even though I wanted my own cow for as long as I could remember. I bought my first simmental heifer 2 years ago and I'm waiting for the very first...

Poor cows. One I always remember was my sister's show steer from about 3 years ago. We had some roundbales in the barn and some cattle pannels up so that steer and a couple show heifers couldn't get too it. Anyway, one afternoon we couldn't find that steer anyway. We looked around the pen...

I have black simmentals and all kinds of colorful commercial cattle and they always seem to get along well (<--- see my picture - a black simme and a red angus  ;D).  I laugh though. So far this year, we've had about 10 baby calves and all are black/black bady except for one.. he's snow white...

Dairy farmers say wet shavings give cows/bred heifers mastitis.

Good tips. I do a lot of them when I'm sitting up my cattle's stall at my district show but a few of them I never even thought of.  ;) I always make sure to match all my heifers lead ropes and neck ties. I like the red/white ones. They look nice on my black/bwf cattle. Actually, about any...

Here's a couple I noticed that aren't listed: Dream On (song by Aerosmith) Ace in the Hole (movie) Rambo (movie) Witch Doctor (song) Aren't there a couple of bulls named after race horses too?

There's this kind of mineral we used on our show calves last year that lowered their body temperature. We started feeding it to make them stop standing in the water but it did make their hair grow longer too. It's called Master Gain, I believe. It has a withdrawl time though so if you want to...

PETA members served on a tray? Well, I guess that's one way to get rid of them.  I hope everyone remembers to bring their BBQ sauce.  ::)

We've been getting a lot of rain here too but for the past half a week it's been dry  <party> I ended up having to turn my show heifers out of the halter breaking pen. There's a haybale in there so they come back so I can still catch them though. It's still not dry on one part of the pen though...

What happens is animal rights activists find a worst case senario of a farm and convence city dewellers that all animal agriculture is "inhumane." Like on that episode of Oprah with the puppy mills. You know they went to the dirtest puppy mill they could find. It's not like they'd take secret...