Throughout the weekly updates on this site, are details of activities with the cattle.
Here below are direct links to some of those places:
Breeding, including mating, pregnancy, calving:
Pelvic changes pre-birth: picture and text
Breech presentation: pictures and text
TWINS: pictures and text
Calving 2 year old heifers: picture and text
Calving problems, finish of Autumn calving: pictures and text
Abandoned calf: picture and text
R3 pregnant heifers, 2003: pictures
Lying-in behaviour of cows/calves: pictures and text
Birth to six months, a comparison in size: pictures
Mating signs: picture and text
Applying heat indicators: picture
Reuniting the bulls after mating: picture and text
Veterinarians' "guess-timates" of calving dates when diagnosing pregnancy: Comment
Experiments in pregnancy diagnosis: text
Pregnancy testing: text
Weaning 2003: pictures and text
Health:
Injections: text
Copper supplementation: text
Oral drenching: Pictures and picture and text
Drenching and measuring the bulls: text
Drenching for Liver Fluke, pregnancy testing, semen selection: text
Leptospirosis Vaccination: picture and comment
Pneumonia: text and picture
Injury and healing: picture and description
Identification:
Ear-tagging: picture
Ear-tag requirements and weaner fair: pictures and text
General Management:
Animal housing: text
Spring pasture management, 2002: text
Management of fat cows: comment and picture
Cull cows to the works: picture and text
Working in the yards: pictures and text
Weaning weights - heifers, 2003: picture and data
Management of different classes of cattle: comment
Grazing pattern: picture
Calf-taming: text
Calf lead-training: pictures and text
Travel by horse-float: pictures
Cattle competition at the Hokianga A & P Show, 2002: pictures and text
Our cattle at the Mangonui A & P Show, 2002: pictures and text
The Northland Angus Ward mini-tour: pictures and text
Homekill - the butchering process: pictures (you will need to email for a password to view this page.)
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