I understand there are better breeds for beef cattle and greatly appreciate every ones input on all my questions in the past articles I posted..."BUT"...I have done a lot of research on the internet about the increasingly rise of prices for Holstein steers for beef...and everything I have read...
We are very new to raising cattle and have many questions...We bought our first bull Holstein when 7 days old, bottle fed him, etc and now is 4 months old and doing great...We are doing this for freezer meat since the price of beef is constantly rising at the stores...We bought a Holstein...
We have a 4 month old Holstein bull calf sharing an open pen to the pasture with our 8 month old male mini horse and neither one of them has been castorated...the bull will be casterated next week and will do the horse in a few months...the mini horse is much smaller than the calf but he is...
My wife has a small mini barn that has ducks, chickens, goats, and rabbits...she lets her chickens out daily to free range and one of her male rabbits got out of his cage and is having so much fun outside...Our question is, would it be wise to let another male rabbit out with the other male as...
My wife's daughter just brought us an injured adult rabbit to try and save...looks like a cotton tail....we put him in a cage with hay, rabbit pellets and water with electrolytes...covered the cage partly to make him feel secure...hind legs are moving just a little...looks like bite marks on his...
We are new to this forum and new to raising calves...We bought our first Bull Holstein calf a week old from a local dairy farmer that is now almost 4 months old...off milk replacer, eating grain, top quality hay, and drinking water on his own...We turned him out to pasture a few days ago...He is...