Angus cattle

from nonregistered cattle to registered cattle for market slaughter on your ranch is a large one. Many ranchers enter the ranching business expecting the same experience as the one their family had at home. These ranchers are wrong to make this assumption. They quickly realize just how different the registered cattle compared to nonregistered cattle. Registered cattle cost more money, presents more work and time-consuming challenges, and has more prestige than the nonregistered cattle. First, in…

Howdy Aunty, Heard you and Uncle Wilbur were in Kansas recently. I bet you saw some nice corn, pigs and cows. Speaking of cows, you asked me something `bout Milk the other day. To address your first question, “how does milk go sour?”. MIlk goes sour because it contains a sugar called lactose. Some bacteria live to make lactose react with oxygen to make lactic acid. When milk becomes warm, these bacteria grow faster. The faster these bacteria grow, the more they react with oxygen, the more…

It is important to understand the nutritional needs of cows and heifers and be prepared to handle newborn calves properly” (Beef Cattle Calving Management, 2009). Adequate planning and preparation can reduce the calf loss, which means ore profit for the producer. Using useful proven management techniques which include: good nutrition, nursing and colostrum surveillance, good record…

Daley, C. A., Abbott, A., Doyle, P. S., Nader, G. A., & Larson, S. (2010). A review of fatty acid profiles and antioxidant content in grass-fed and grain-fed beef. Nutrition Journal Nutr J, 9(1). doi:10.1186/1475-2891-9-10 The authors of this peer-reviewed journal article discuss the differences in the nutritional profile (and flavor) in beef which result from raising the animals on pasture, in stead of grain. The article details the different fatty acid profile and antioxidant levels in beef…

Many foods now either have some sort of hormone or antibiotic in them to promote growth or stop growth. These drugs have help fight of infection or help with deficiencies and that's a great thing but what the food industry force feeding livestock that’s a bad thing. With to many antibiotics and hormones being fed to livestock it bound to stay in the meat and cause very harmful effects on consumers and producers everywhere. Also all of the sugars and other thing that we consume. First, In the…

Detecting Estrus: When a cow goes into heat she will usually stand to be mounted by a bull. Normally a cow will go into heat or estrus every 17 to 24 days, the average is 21 days. It is important to keep up with the cycle to make sure the cow is in heat. Signs that cows may be in estrus is acting restless and mooing a lot, wandering around the pasture in search of a mate, travel further than normal, and If there's a bull around, she will also mount the bull before she stands to let him mount…

I am Iris, and I am here to tell you about the world's greatest dairy producer of all time--the Swiss cow. The Swiss cow is an unusual breed of cow. Not only is it the most common, but it also produces the most milk out of all the other cows. Surprisingly, you might have actually seen this cow in dairy product ads. It is a common mascot--white coat mottled with jet-black splotches. This extraordinary cow is the very best! Swiss cows offer milk to produce a great diversity of milk products:…

Robotic vs parlors Even for dairy farmers, new technology and robots are quickly becoming more available for the farmers use. Robdots came into the U.S. in the year of 2000. Robots can very drastically cut the amount of time spent in the barn. Owning a robotic milker could also be a nightmare if things do not go how it is supposed to. Parlor systems may be the better way to go if the farmer doesn 't like technology. The standard parlor system is the better way to go because it involves less…

The world sees the sun light rise and descend every day out of the year. Most people eat two to three times a day, not knowing where or how that food came to be, where they must relax there bottom side at. They really don’t understand the production of the meals and how they are made to be. They take farmers for granite, not because the disrespect the farmers, the people don’t understand farming as a whole. The many ways consist of; tillage farming, no tillage farming, beef cows, dairy cows,…

Bargaining within the household is often hidden, involving emotional manipulations and unspoken power games that may not be readily detectable or fundamentally threatening (Locke & Okali, 1999, p-275). In response to the problems posed by a unitary conceptualization of the household, economists have proposed alternative household models. These models, especially those embodying the bargaining approach, provide a useful framework for analyzing gender relations (Agarwal, 1997). Research based…