Need tips for new cattle farm

What's the weather like how many cattle what breed do u have any facilities

 

HF? Holstein Friesien?

 

Brown swiss would do better! They are more docile than Holstein. I really recommend you setup some kind of automatic water fountain. Had we not had the automatic waterers when the 2-4 yr drought came along our cattle would have had nothing to drink as all the ponds and streams dried up. Besides that it is cleaner water for them to drink. No poop and urine in it.

 

Not in my opinion or several others on this boards opinion. They are more docile, have more butter fat content in their milk, and produce just slightly under holsteins . Even their bulls are docile. Holstein, jersey, and guernsey bulls are the meanest bulls around. I'd rather step in the ring as a matador with a Spanish fighting bull than be around Holstein, jersey, or guernsey bulls!

 

Yes brown swiss are waaaaay more docile than Holsteins.

 

Read up

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Swiss

They are able to subsist on minimal feed and care it says.

 

Not a problem. Always willing to help a fellow cattleman whether dairy or beef! Just because I raise beef cattle does not mean I don't know some things about dairy!

 

I try. My father taught me allot

 

Possible foot rot, if cold outside and rain possible pneumonia also ring worm.

You got two options with ring worm. Leave it alone and it will go away but is contagious to humans and other animals or iodine sprayed on the lesions themselves seem to work well.

 

Cattle diseases read up

http://cattletoday.info/