Pneumonia isn't just a spring calving-shed problem. Two- to four-month-old calves out on summer grass get it too, and by the time…
Internal parasites don't kill outright, but they quietly skim pounds off yearlings and young cows all summer. Here's how to time deworming…
Summer processing puts vaccine through heat, sunlight, and dirty needles before it ever reaches the calf. Handle it wrong and you paid…
June and July thunderstorms drop cattle in bunches, often under the one shade tree in the pasture or along a wire fence.…
The first real hot spell of summer hits cattle before they've slicked off, and a black-hided cow packing extra flesh feels it…
Summer pasture looks like it has everything a cow needs, but Montana grass runs short on the trace minerals that drive breed-back.…
Foot rot shows up fast on summer grass, almost always in one foot, and it spreads from the wet, churned-up ground cattle…
Cows graze the bottoms bare while good grass sits untouched on the high ground. Where you put salt, mineral, and rubbing spots…
Horn flies cluster on a cow's back and belly by the thousands, and every bite pulls a little weight and milk off…
Respiratory disease doesn't wait for weaning. Nursing calves two to four months old go down with pneumonia on summer pasture, and on…
Turning cattle out to summer range in bear and wolf country means more than dropping the gate. A little riding, some record-keeping,…
A two-year-old is still growing while she raises her first calf, and she can't win a shoving match at the feed ground.…
Setting a defined breeding season and pulling the bull on a schedule tightens your calving window and tells you months ahead which…
Heat stress builds through the afternoon and only lets go overnight. When a run of hot days doesn't cool down after dark,…
Summer grass looks like it has everything a cow needs, but the minerals that drive breeding and calf health run short right…
Body condition at breeding decides more of next year's calf crop than the bull does. Here's how thin cows and late calvers…
Cattle on summer range will hammer the water and the bottoms and leave the ridges untouched. Moving salt and mineral is the…
Turning pairs out on summer grass only works if the fence holds. A slow walk of the wire in June saves you…
A breeding soundness exam gets your bulls to the pasture gate, but it doesn't keep them working. Riding through the bulls during…
Horn flies live on the animal and feed on blood dozens of times a day. Left alone through a Montana summer, they…
Before the herd hits the summer pastures, the stock water setup deserves a hard look. A stuck float or dry well in…
Summer thunderstorms kill cattle in bunches, usually against a wire fence or under the only tree in the pasture. Here's how it…
Bovine trichomoniasis spreads at breeding and shows up as open cows and a strung-out calf crop next spring. A little planning before…
Frothy bloat hits cattle hard when they hit legume-heavy pasture in early summer, and a cow can go from grazing to dead…
Two-year-olds nursing their first calf carry the heaviest load in the herd, and they're the cows most likely to be open at…