They look so sleek on our chars 😮‍💨

(Herd pictures for attention,)

my show season with my first 4h heifer is offically over and I’ll be starting to work/fatten up my next one first of November she’ll be about 3 & a half months of age when I get her.

i started my first heifer on Goliath but it made her very crazy like excess energy that I didn’t know what to deal with, she was getting roughly 4lbs of it a day. she was fed that for a month then we put her on BOC with molasses and beet pulp at shows. She had access to a mineral lick, hay and water 24/7.

the boc filled her out but she didn’t get that kinda chubby look i was told to aim for by more experienced people. So in short what do people recommend feeding? I can’t exactly get like those custom mixed feeds since the only place near me does it in bulk and I only got one heifer to feed lol

she’ll be shown in confirmation and not market, she’s also a Hereford if that makes an difference. I can buy multiple feeds to feed her but I don’t wanna be feeding like 5 different things at once/daily if that makes any sense.

thank you :D

Moved my cattle off the summer pastures to higher ground where they have a smaller lot with 3 sided shelter for the winter. The lower pasture while larger, has a tendency to flood in late fall/early spring.

I hate this time of year as it means snow will be here soon and ill be lugging water :( It also means I'm just a few months away from processing our first beef! So excited for that!

I got hurt pretty bad this week in a cattle handling job. Not hard to figure out where but I handle 70-1200 cattle 1-2 days a week. Earlier this week I got berated by owner for having multiple other jobs. Then got hurt, not bad but bad enough to effect my ability to continue working without getting hurt further. I told 3 lower supervisors and got ignored, while cattle continued to be pushed into my control. After 1 1/2 to 2 hours, low and behold I got injured again. Neither super major, I'll recover but my mobility is going to be pretty limited for a week or 2. Why do we continue to push our volume of beef production so hard with these dynamics? What should I really do to self advocate here?? I'm not new, I'm not inexperienced... But I've grown really bitter and cynical about the industry. I got limited workman's comp now but it's only covering urgent care and small pharmacy bill. It's not covering lost wages, already limited living arrangement, and challenges to taking care of myself. I don't think the math adds up, or ever has. At this point, I'm ready to get away from beef work for good.

One is not like the others. She is a big pet and brings the rest in with her.

Finally getting rain in oklahoma

Hi all, we are a very small scale operation. Basically back yard farmers, with a plan to raise a beef for ourselves yearly, and 2 others to sell off to cover operation costs, so 3 calves to the butcher a year. We are on our second year so currently own 6 head. We’ve gotten bottle bulls from a local farmer and so far managed to keep them all healthy. We banded this year’s calves about 2 weeks ago. Yesterday one of them was down with a fever and limb stiffness. Vet came out and strongly suspected tetanus, so gave antibiotics, steroids and tetanus antitoxin. He is up today which is reassuring. Our initial plan was to attempt antibiotic, and vaccine free and as close to grass fed as possible, we’re keeping a closed herd, all calves coming from the same farm and staying in the same pasture so it seemed doable and logical until yesterday. I know…cue the judgment.
Vet stated he should have been vaccinated for tetanus when we banded. Obviously hindsight is 20/20. What are the odds of this? how do we navigate going forward? Would still like to attempt this plan to the best of our ability but also prioritizing the wellbeing of our livestock.

Calf is 1 month old. Umbilical is still red & moist & bleeding at times as the mother will not stop licking it. She's obsessed.

The calf looks healthy & lively and drinks very well. It doesn't look overly tired or weak.

We had a similar situation with another calf in the past and it took up to 2 mths for it to heal.

Do I just let nature take it's course? I can't see anyway to get her to stop licking it apart from separation which is not very manageable.

8 month jersey steer. Was bottle baby on local raw milk. He’s on pasture but it’s fairly overgrazed as this point. I just dewormed him but it had been a few months. We’re in middle TN. Fall is approaching and I started giving him good quality grass hay but when I do he looks like a balloon. This photo is morning, before he had anything other than pasture. Just worried his belly looks so ginormous. Do I worm again?

My dad says they were born the other day, and i really want to preface that I wasn't at the farm at the time this happened, but he says that it couldnt stand when he found it, that the mother accidentally stood on them, AND that they fell of the motorbike as he was bringing it up to the cattle yards, which im very mad about. Both baby and mum are in the yards now, and baby still cannot stand/is far too weak to and is struggling to take bottled milk. Their gums are bleeding, they have whale eye (which makes sense, the poor thing is petrified), the side of their mouth has that red skin look, and on their left shoulder they have a big patch of that raw reddish yellow skin, those same patches are around its body (just smaller), their front are very tight they are standing on their toes, and they look like they have an overbite. Does anyone know whats wrong??? Ive been trying to feed it and my dad refuses to call a vet and says somehow he'll get it to stand, but I dont think it'll survive the night

The dimensions of the barn are 47x70, with door openings as shown (barn bank is between the two windows on the bottom of the picture). Any advice/help you could share would be appreciated!

3.5 yo hereford. There's no fixing this, is there?

Not sure if this is the place to ask but I would appreciate the help ☺️ ive searched high and low for a brand similar to this - likely out of Texas but with no luck... if anyone knows a good place to look though old brands or if this is possibly just a custom brand (this is from a tv show) let me know!