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Any recommendations in the Pennsylvania area? I'll be out there next month for a Genex meeting, and I should have time to fit in a tour.

Any results from the sale yesterday? I couldn't find a website where it was being broadcast online yesterday afternoon, sadly

See if you can find a premium book or entry book from this past year for the fair you want to show in for the specific rules. At our county fair (early August), prospect calves are born in the same calendar year. I don't have experience with raising prospect calves to show, so I'll let someone...

+1 exactly what went through my mind

Mean and average are the same thing. I believe you meant Median. I think the average really depends on whether you're liking at commercial operations or seedstock. Seedstock breeders should be spending more, but from what I've seen that doesn't always turn out to be the case. I think the 5 calf...

+1 and I want to emphasize trying with the bottle each time before reaching for the tube. Dairy farmers have found that as # of tube feedings goes up, future performance and survivability tend to go down. This is a correlation, so I don't want to say it is a direct cause and effect situation...

They won't forget each other after just a day or two. Do you know how to identify mastitis in the cow? That could be causing the calf to not want to nurse.

Schrag's 2019 Family Event sale

Thank you! I saw Powerplay semen for sale in an upcoming sale catalog and was curious how he looked.

Reviving this to see if anyone has a picture of Moombi powerplay? I wasn't able to locate the Cagwin catalog mentioned above

Any recommendations on who could bring cattle down from the International Peace Gardens area in Manitoba/ND to southeastern MN?

Were all of these weights collected via the weight tape? Can you get her to a certified scale? Also pictures would help. Is the grain feeding consistent, same time/same amount each day?

Last time I raised a pair of show steers (5 years ago now) I averaged 3.77lbs on one and under 2 on the other. Same pen/same feedpan over a period of 6 months. One was 600lbs starting out the other was 900, respectively (4 months difference in age as well). The 3.77 steer won grand champion ADG...

I'll be honest, I kinda breezed through this, but by looking at your goals, I'd say if the bulls you're looking at have 6 inches of hair then they aren't the bulls that will do what you want in terms of being easy fleshing with no problems (but will probably make them look good). Plenty of good...

I'm actually just starting to look into going up to Crooked Post in Alberta. I'm not sure where I'd fly into, but any recommendations around there? I have time for a 3 day weekend up there in July, or I can wait until September and tour for closer to a week if needed.

If you want them to fill out more, depth charge or beet pulp or any number of filler products will help more than water. If you're struggling to get them to drink at the show then I've heard from people at my county show who use a relatively small amount of Gatorade powder to sweeten the water...

The Haumont herd has been brought up several times in the cow families post, and I'm curious if this is a herd that would be worth investigating for foundation females? I'd never heard of them before these discussions (at least not that I can recall) but then I saw their ad in the shorthorn...

I saw a sponsored post on Facebook where they were selling 60 day bred cows for $2k and $150 per embryo transfer. When I did it a few years ago for someone we agreed on them paying for all shots/costs associated with the transfer, then I got $150 for each calf they didn't pick up. The calves...

You are totally correct, and this is exactly my intentions behind this post. This fall I'll be essentially "starting over" with our herd and my goal is to find these types of cow families that other breeders have developed and use them as my foundation. I've got a good idea of the herds I would...

What are some of the cow families that really seem to stand out as productive females in the shorthorn breed in this decade? If you can match them up to a specific herd as well for reference that would be great as well. I'll start us off: It seems to me like the Rosewoods have had a pretty good...