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Cow with sore foot.

by downtownjr on 01-17-2012 at 11:05 AM
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This past Monday 1-9-12 we had a cow come up with a sore left rear foot. She couldn't hardly walk. We put her in the corral and called the veterinarian to take a look at her. Had her in the squeeze chute. Couldn't find anything. Her ankle and foot was swollen. The vet. said she thought the cow had an infection and started her on 20cc penicillin and gave her a shot of pain med. Told me to follow up on Wed and Friday with 20cc of penicillin both days. On Wed we gave the second round of penicillin

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Fence Questions

by downtownjr on 10-31-2011 at 09:49 AM
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I have a variety of fence around the farm, depends on what needed fixed and the new pasture I am reclaiming from years of neglect.

Where I have decent woven wire still in place, I re-stretched it and added barbed wire along the top. Have to try this Gaucho wire cattlleranch mentioned, second time this week I have seen a post about it.

Some of the new pasture I am putting 3-wire electric. Using a Power Wizard Ultra Low Impedance charger ...it deals with weeds as they

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Fence Questions

by downtownjr on 10-31-2011 at 09:47 AM
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So you want to have a barb wire perimeter fence and electric wire to keep them off? Generally not advised to mix the two types or electrify the barbed wire. Barbed wire is used as a physical barrier and in that case usually does not require a electric wire because barbed wire is usually about 4 or 5 wire and pretty strong with close post spacing to prevent sagging and stretch and makes a good barrier. Electric is a physiological barrier and depending on the number of wires, gauge, post spacing can

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5 strand barbed or 3 strand electric high tensil.

by downtownjr on 10-31-2011 at 09:42 AM
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There is a trick to keep your fence working in frozen ground and very dry ground. I seen mentioned that ground wires were ran with the fence. Ground rods also need to be installed in various places in the pasture to help complete the circuit. On the main ground by the charger we used three ten foot rods ten foot apart. Ours are in the shade so the ground doesn't dry out near as bad in a dry year. Use real grounding rods as well, 1/2 or 5/8" zinc coated rods.

Our cows are in the

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AgBoards Announces HayTalk Chat (#haytalk) on Twitter

by downtownjr on 07-25-2011 at 01:04 PM
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AgBoards Announces HayTalk Chat (#haytalk) on Twitter

Attention forage producers and consumers, make room in your Wednesday schedules for an hour of hay, forage, and grazing discussions on Twitter. Starting Wednesday, August 10th, at 8:00 p.m. EST, AgBoards (@AgBoards) brings you HayTalk Chat (#haytalk).

The AgBoards Network, creators of HayTalk.com and RanchingForums.com, amongst other farming sites, have teamed up with social media agvocates Jesse Bussard (@cowgirljesse,

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