Health & Performance
Guides on cattle health, breeding performance, calf crop and records & data.
Cattle Health
Guides in this section are being added.
Breeding Performance
- Breeding for Lower Methane: What a Bull Buyer Can Do TodayThe science is early, but the bull you buy this spring still shapes the herd for years.
- Marbling Is the Miss: Reading the CAB Failure NumbersWhere the carcasses go wrong, and why your bull battery is the first place to look.
- Pulling a Calf: When to Help and When to Call the VetMost cows calve fine on their own. Knowing when to step in, and when to step back and call, saves calves and cows.
- Running Your Own AI Program: Keep the Cows That Prove ItAI gets you good genetics. The records tell you who earns a place on your ranch.
- Selecting for Better Fat: What Angus Research SaysThe genes behind fatty acids are real, the tools are young, and marbling is still what pays.
Calf Crop
- Getting Cows Bred Early: A Calving Window That PaysNearly every cow calving in the first stretch of the season is not luck. It is feed, bulls and culling.
- Mineral for the Cow, Weight on the Calf: What Pregnancy Feeding Can DoThe calf is built during pregnancy, so what you put in the mineral feeder shows up at weaning.
- Moderately Thick, Judged on the RailThe grader eyeballs it, so know what he sees before your cattle hang.
- Newborn Calf Care: The First 24 HoursBreathing, warmth, colostrum and a dry navel. What to check in the first hours, and when to step in.
- Putting Pounds on Weaners: Where the Calories Come FromThe weigh-scale does not care about pedigree. It cares what the calf ate.
Records & Data
- Fourteen Percent to Nearly FortyThe brand's pass rate nearly tripled. Here is what cattlemen did to get there.
- How Old Is Too Old for the BrandThe age rule on the CAB spec list and when it can catch you out.
- If the Records Lie, the Bull Battery LiesA cattleman's case for keeping sire and dam records straight.
- Is DNA Testing Your Angus Cattle Worth the Money?Most registered Angus get tested now. Here is where it pays on a working ranch and where it does not.
- Keep Records on Your Calves Like You Keep ReceiptsThe scale and a notebook will teach you more about your cattle than a year of guessing.
- Three Numbers That Sink a LoadRibeye, backfat and hot weight: the size limits that take cattle out of the brand even when they marble.