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An Irishman steer won a class at FW this year.

I do have formal education in this field, and although I don't directly deal with food related issues, I deal with human and ecological risk assessment on a daily basis. Frankly, this issue is popular in the public because its something that suburban house frau's with too much time and money on...

A similar one I raised, but out of a Cunia grandaughter.  Now, what to breed these girls to.....

Housing the calf doesn't necessarily mean the kid doesn't take care of the calf.  Most of these types of cases I'm familiar with involving kids that really need help do involve the breeder or helper keeping calves at their barn.  In every case I've seen personally, the kids still do all the work.

I've never heard of a written contract for these types of situations.  It requires a lot of trust, and if it goes bad, there isn't a piece of paper in the world that can really help you.  If you aren't dealing with someone with much money, its getting blood out of a turnip if dont want to do...

If he's eating hay and not diahreaa his bugs are fine.  Probiotics doesn't hurt, but basically this calf is just done.  If you pulled him away from hay completely, he'd probably start eating feed. You are a week from leaving for Houston.  Keep him full of hay and don't mess with him.  Under the...

The vast majority of lakes fill in with very fine sediment - basically clay.  They basically turned your example into a sand mine, which would rarely be possible, at least in our part of the world.  Any type of dredging operation requires permits.  Often, sediment contains elevated levels of...

People commonly bring up this dredging idea and there is a very good reason it's not done - it is prohibitively expensive.  People don't understand the huge volumes of soil involved to actually make a difference.  Transportation costs eat you alive.  To put it simple, it's really the main reason...

I don't know of a single person that has sold cows or got out of the cattle business because of external, quasi-political influences like "bad press", foreign imports, etc. As DLD and some others have said, drought is the dominant short-term reason and I don't think any of the other reasons...

It's just genetics.  Frankly, I consider "burning one out on feed" to be a myth as far as restricting growth.  The more you feed one the more they grow.  A few will eat more feed than they really need and then it just goes through them.  If there is any truth to "getting them fat so they won't...

We'll have a pretty good idea of what they do this time a year from now because a bunch of them are about to be sold in Tx over the next month. Personally, I had outstanding luck with MAB - both on conception and quality in my fall born calves.  I think everyone I had born is now "in town"...

I'm fine with paying more for good bulls.  I've always been surprised bulls are so similar in price

Did you know that Whole Foods serves Heat Wave beef?  I'm serious.  Kirk Duff had an exclusive contract to sell them natural beef under the brand name "Premium Natural Beef".  We've been in their program for three years.  They pay very well, but their audits are very intrusive. Never been in...

It was about a guy and his family that is mainly in the heifer deal plus he was one of the more popular hoof trimers.  Kind of a dirty jobs type show that they have

Fort Worth has the same staging wait, they just have room to do it much closer.  I frankly think they need to do it like Houston and San Antonio - stalling based on first come, first served based on cattle actually on the trailer.  I'll pay whatever they want for a chute pass, just give me a...

The phantom entry thing is part of the problem.  Yes, everyone does that and it still does no good. We (along with plenty of other people) survived by leaving calves outside in tieouts.

I didn't think they could make the makeup pen work as good as it did.  The presence of cops created a little more patience. The first class of exotics was chaos trying to fit all of the calves in the way he did breeds.  Folks in that class weren't happy. Second class which my youngest son was...

I dont mix enough rag oil or whatever with the sheen to make their hair truly oily.  We don't use a cooler, but we do use that kind of mixture at least 2-3times a week all year

Ryan: Most cows in this country aren't run on $10,000 an acre land or whatever it's bringing in your area now.  Large scale commercial cattle operations do not creep feed calves for a reason.  You stock your pastures accordingly to have enough grass to feed that cow and big calf.  It absolutely...

Absorbine veterinary linament and Electric shave are sometimes used for the same purpose mixed with Show Sheen.  My technical term is it makes hair go "poof" - good to use for clipping and for show prep.  It's what I use - I don't like the stickiness of Zoom Bloom or other stuff.  But I'll mix...