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February 15, 2017 BY
IN Livestock Equipment News

Getting Cattle ready for Calving

Calving season isn’t for a few more months but it’s never too early to start making sure everything is ready for the arrival of the new calves to your ranch.

Calving is one of the most important times of the year for cattlemen. Making sure your cows get through it and stay healthy is important for your herd – and your bottom line. So to help everything go as smoothly as possible, we recommend looking over the following tips as you work to prepare for calving.

Have the area ready

A big part of successful calving is ensuring that you have a clean, dry area ready for your cows to give birth. If your pasture isn’t clean and dry, then the cows need to calve in a barn with a thick layer of straw. This ensures the calf will stay warm and dry, and both the calf and mother cow will recover quickly.

Keep them warm

If your cows give birth when it’s cold, that’s not always the worst situation. However, if they give birth when it’s both cold and wet, you’ll need to warm them up immediately. Cold, wet calves don’t have the energy to get up and nurse, which all but seals their fate as a dead calf.

If you need more tips on the calving season, call us today at [phone].
February 1, 2017 BY
IN Livestock Equipment News

Livestock Handling Tips

Running a ranch and owning cattle is a lot of responsibility. Whether you’ve been doing it for three years or thirty, there’s always more to learn about the business – and about caring for your stock.

Our team at [practice_name] here in [city], [state], put this list together of some tips to help you better handle and manage your livestock. Whether you’re getting them ready for a show or for slaughter, these tips can help you better handle your herds.

Remember their blind spots

Cattle will generally respond well to directions and arm signals, but they have to see them first in order for the signals to be effective. It’s easy to forget, at times, that a cow’s blind spot is directly behind them. Try staying at a 45-degree angle off your cattle when directing them. You’ll find they’re much more responsive when you do this.

Better working walls

When you have to move cattle from one paddock to another, into a truck, or through chutes, you know how important it is to have all the working alleys and chutes sized correctly. However, we recommend making sure that your alleys are at least 18 inches wide for calves and 30 inches for adults. This helps make sure they move in the direction you want and prevents them from trying to turn around.

If you have any other questions, or need some equipment to better handle your stock, call us today at [phone].
December 2, 2016 BY
IN Livestock Equipment News

Keep your Winter Herd Comfortable

Winter is finally gripping most of the country in its cold grasp, which means it’s time to get serious about ensuring your cattle herd makes it through the winter comfortably. Whether you’re new to cattle or this is your 20th year on the range, we have a few tips that we believe will help you.

Watering is just as important

Even in the winter, with the abundance of snow and ice, having enough water at a decent temperature (we recommend 37 degrees Fahrenheit and up) is critical. Cattle can’t just eat snow and ice all day, as they have the same problem humans do when consuming that much frozen water – it lowers core body temperature.

Enough roughage

A great way to keep your herd warm is to ensure there’s enough roughage, in addition to whatever winter diet you have them on, to help warm them up. Hay is great because the digestion process of it causes more body heat, keeping your herd warm and lowering any heating costs you may incur if you’re housing your herd in a barn.

It also gives your herd more energy, meaning their meat stays firmer and healthier until slaughtering time.

Keep them dry

It’s also critical to keep your herd dry. Wet animals get cold as easily as wet humans, and if they stay wet and cold too long you can risk losing the animal.

In light of that, we recommend double-checking all housing structures to ensure there are no leaks, so your herd stays dry all winter long.
If you have any other questions regarding your herd’s winter health, call us today at [phone] for more information.
September 8, 2016 BY
IN Livestock Equipment News

How to Raise Calves in Cold Weather

With summer nearly over and fall quickly arriving, you’re probably thinking about getting your ranch ready for the snow. Part of that preparation comes in the form of ensuring that your calves are ready to endure a cold winter.

So let’s take a look at a few tips for correctly raising calves in colder weather.

Use the right bedding

Dr. Noah Litherland is quoted on ProgressiveDairy.com as saying that wheat straw is, “The preferred bedding substrate for calves in winter.”

Wheat straw works because it absorbs water, meaning that your new calves are going to be drier when sleeping on wheat straw than on other materials.

Consistency in the feeding schedule

Calves are quite like human babies in some circumstances, and feeding time is one of those. You need to make sure that you’re keeping their feeding time consistent, even if it is 10 below outside. This consistency will ensure as many calves as possible make it through the winter.

Well-ventilated barns

Even though it’s cold outside when the snow’s flying, you need to make sure that your calves’ barn is well-ventilated. This makes sure there’s fresh air and a removal of toxins and noxious gasses.

If you have any other questions about raising calves in colder weather as winter approaches, please don’t hesitate to call us today at [phone].

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