Ozarks Farm & Neighbor Newspaper – written for, by & about farmers

As your cow gets ready to calve, make sure she’s able to pass her own good health on to her offspring.

When your animals are suffering a crisis, it’s always best to contact your veterinarian. But there are routine situations that come up on the farm, which the producer sometimes elects to handle on the spot.

If you couldn’t drill clover into your pastures in the fall, you can still scatter it on them in the winter.

A number of people across the Ozarks are getting into small sheep flocks and goat herds; that’s according to Dr. Charlotte Clifford-Rathert, University of Missouri Extension state small ruminant specialist at Lincoln University. “Some people are expanding into larger numbers to accommodate multi-species grazing with their cattle,” Clifford-Rathert told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor.

I have written an article about this before, but it is so important that I am going to refresh everyone’s mind about the facts again. I get a lot of questions about colostrum and newborn babies. These babies must have at least 10 percent of their body weight the first 18 hours of life.

Andrew Cook