Cattle feeding

Trying to juggle school, cattle, a relationship, and your relationship with your family is tough. I do my very best in school and I try to keep on task as much as I can. And if I set a goal for myself I make sure I reach it. I am involved in many clubs and tennis so that helps fill up my schedule. I work with cattle all through the Winter to the Summer until I have finally made it to my last show of the season. I keep my relationships with my family, my friends, and my boyfriend in line and I…

Important Factors When Training Cattle for Winter Grazing When winter rolls in with its snowfalls, you may feel that you need to bring out the feed wagon each day to provide nourishment to your cattle. You are mistaken in this, though, since you can train cattle to find the grass by digging in the snow. By understanding the following key facts, you can successfully train your cattle to participate in winter grazing, even with snow being on the grass. Understand That Cattle Are Capable of…

extended all the way down to Bega in southern NSW. In 1832, with two cows and two calves, John Fawkner arrived in what would become Melbourne. Ideal dairying conditions around Port Phillip Bay helped the herd to grow and within a year there were 155 cattle in the district. By 1850 there were 347,000. In 1891 there were almost one million dairy cows in Australia. The gold rush brought thousands of people to Australia. With its collapse, many were offered government pastoral leases on the…

I am interested in the transitions of dairy farming in Vermont. In the 1950’s-1960’s, dairy farming was using advanced machinery. The farmers were mechanizing the dairy farms. Because of this, a lot of these dairy farms grew bigger, and they made more dairy products. The small dairy farms do not have enough machinery, because they could not afford it. The small farms had to be shut down due to a shortage of money to keep the dairy farms running. Vermont heavily relies on the…

Summary of Reading 1 unit 5 (pages 108 and 109) Pamplona is where hundreds run with bulls just for fun. Everyone has a characteristic to take risks, and many can handle things well. The more people take risks, the more they will be capable to push them even further. A heart pumping challenge always make people want to just do it when they are facing it. Well, before people are facing the extreme, if they know beforehand, they usually take precautions to be prepared and to reduce risk so things…

The satchel had been my best find in a while from the thrift store. The leather was kind of beaten, but that made it all the more appealing to me. That bag already had a life without me. Maybe it was some drug runner's money bag. Maybe it had belonged to a spy who'd used it undercover and had no more need of it. But whoever it was liked strawberry chapstick. I found a half finished one in the bottom along with some old gum wrappers and crumbs of some sort. I myself preferred mint though. Mint…

Bullfighting is a tradition that dates back to the Roman empire and is consistently found in Spain and central american countries (Bullfighting History). In recent years bullfighting has been scrutinized by many animal rights activists for its “violent” behaviors. Despite the backlash, bullfighting stays as one of the few things that are living history. Bullfighting is a career for many people: whether they are a matador -person who kills the bull- or a butcher who provides the meat after the…

The Haybaler Problem In The Haybaler Problem we were trying to see how much each bale of hay weighed, and if there is more than one answer. There were 5 bales of hay in total, and when put together they would equal 80, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90, and 91. So I decided to start doing guess and check like this: A+B=80 and then substituting numbers like 39+41=80. I did it like this because I needed to come up with at least one number to start off. I tried different numbers like 39, 38, 40, and…

other cows to make hybrids. A few examples are Balancer Red Angus mixed with Gelbvieh, LimFlex, Red Angus plus Limousin, and SimAngus Red Angus mixed with Simmental (Thorpe). No one will be surprised when the Red Angus will be one of the top best cattle breed for beef. It is remarkable how something infamous can be given a second chance for redemption (Thorpe). This also shows that never give up even though there might not be a chance you keep on fighting (Thorpe). It turns out the Red Angus is…

yield and poor fertility. The body condition score of a cow can also often be linked to health and welfare issues (Gearheart, 1990) Body Condition Score Scales Lowman (1976) first adapted a 5 point scale body condition score scale (1-5) for beef cattle cow, from a previous condition score for ewes, the…