Cattle Sale

Archive for January, 2010

I am looking for a website that i could go on and look up pedigree inforamtion on dairy cattle sold in WI
I am looking for a free website if there is any that you can look up a pedigree or find desendents of dairy cows that were sold in WI without paying to find this information! Thanks

Go to the breed association that you are interested in, say Holstein, and you can get the pedigree information on the cattle there.

I’m having to student teach this semester in an Agricultural Science class. Part of my responsibilities is to train a Dairy Cattle CDE team. Does anyone have any good places to go to for information on how to do well in this contest? I’m experienced in poultry and horse, but not dairy cattle so this is all new to me.
Please serious answers only, I actually need this information for my students.

try this score card showing what the judges may be looking for:

http://dese.mo.gov/divcareered/AG/CDE/DairyCattleGrading.pdf

We put blankets on horses in the winter, why not beef and dairy cattle? Don’t they get cold too?

Actual scientific research – if you give cattle a choice of many different temperature areas they will end up staying in the one that about 55 degrees F. Winter temps do not feel as cold to them as to the temperate 70 degree loving humans. Plus if they are housed in an open area by winter they will grow lots o hair (like 3 inches – honest).
Now horses would grow similar hair and be just as warm outside but we humans think the shaggy coats look unkempt and its harder to cool the shaggy horse down after a ride so we clip them or keep them always blanketed to keep them from getting shaggy…

I’m thinking of starting a small farm with the goal of being self-sufficient. As such I will be raising cattle for both beef and dairy for the consumption of those on the farm. I’m wondering whether I’m better off with a breed of beef or dairy cattle – considering I would be consuming both the beef and the dairy from whichever breed I chose.

Lastly, if you don’t actually have the experience or the knowledge to know the answer please don’t bother to reply with your opinions of my plan, my intentions or farming advice.

First, male and female are present in every breed of cattle. (Necessities of sexual reproduction, you know.)

That said, go with a dairy breed.

You don’t indicate whether you will be selling any of your milk or beef or whether the products will be exclusively for your own personal use.

If you plan to keep the products exclusively for your own use, buy one pregnant female. One cow will produce more than enough milk for your own daily needs. Keep in mind, though, that she will need to have a calf once a year in order to keep the production up. The safest and most cost-effective way to get her pregnant is to artificially inseminate her so you don’t need to have a bull around.

If her calf is a bull, have him castrated and butcher him when he’s large enough. If her calf is a heifer, you have a few more options. You can sell her, you can raise her and breed her and have another milking female in the event that something happens to your other cow, or you can raise her and butcher her for beef just like you would a steer.

hi i am looking in to getting miniature cattle and i was wondering if anyone knows what website or where at i can find them. and i live in southwestern corner of ohio. near cincinnati. so any websites or places around cincinnati would be great thanks.

They are called dexter cattle.
http://www.dextercattle.org/Ads.htm