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Hello: I have a perfect storm situation here. An accidental insemination in May 2019 has resulted in February 1 2020 calves. And we are in the middle of a major winter storm here in Utah. A shortage of workers resulted in a delay in the building of a new barn. So everything is torn up and I...

Can home late Thursday night in a rainstorm and there was a baby with the herd. Nice little bull. He was huddled up next to the fence. The run in is completely flooded, it was sleeting and about 11:30pm. We got some straw and a tarp and fashioned a lean to that momma and baby could get under...

I have a doe that kidded two or three years ago. Her baby was stillborn, so I hand milked for about a year. She would never dry up. Even when I finally stopped milking, she would sort of stop producing SO MUCH milk, but never really dry. Then out of nowhere she would fully bag up again. No...

Hello: I have three dawn to dusk lights out in the farm yard. Recently they have been shutting off, power back on, shut off, power back on, etc. all night. I suspect there is a short somewhere, but 1) how do I figure out where and 2) then what do I do? I had an electrician come out and he...

Hi all: I have two Oberhasli/Nubian does that kidded in May 2016. The one had twins. I didn't milk her and left the twins on her until she kicked them off in early spring 2017. The other's baby didn't survive, so I did milk her. I've tried to dry her up several times and she just won't...

I have a three one-half year old doe, kidded in March. Came out this morning and she's weak in her back end. Temp 101.4, eating, pooping, urinating ok. Gums fine. Udder fine, in fact I think she's drying up. Hadn't wormed her for awhile, but did this morning with oral ivermectin. Gets a...

Maybe this is a common sense chemistry sentence (oxymoron), but why did my milk thicken when I heated it? My doe kidded yesterday. Her udder was HUGE and the kids couldn't latch on. So I milked her out and saved some for the babies (bottle feeding them colostrum), froze some, and kept some...

Hi - My heifer has less than 2 weeks to calving date. Tonight her udder is really hard, but the teats are soft. I squeezed one a little and it looked like Maybe blood. No milk. I read somewhere not to milk her, because you don't want to lose collostrum and the blood might be just broken...

Three weeks until Junebug calves. This is her first. It's been fun to watch her grow and her udder develop. This is my first cow as well. Any comments on how she looks?

I have a 7-month pregnant heifer. I'm trying to see if I can feel the baby move or kick, but I don't know where to feel on her body. Any help? I'm surprised there isn't more on the web about this. Thanks!

Hi - I have a 2+ year old Holstein/probably Angus cross. She's 4 months pregnant, due in March. Currently she is on pasture. I'll switch her to an alfalfa mix in October. I give her about 2 cups alfalfa pellets sprinkled with a mineral mix. I'm wondering if I should start supplementing her...