Iron County Cattlemen's Association

Calf 911 Videos & Checklists Practical resources for beef producers to help offer emergency support for distressed newborn calves.

A new lawsuit challenges grass height standards & grazing limits in Fishlake National Forest. Ranchers argue the rules ignore sound science and cut forage availability by up to 45%. Read more: https://loom.ly/Xxoal9I.

I-15 South Cedar Study - PublicInput The Environmental Asessment (EA), including a description of the Preffered Alternative, is now available for review and public comment.

Utah sheep and cattle producers: have you taken this survey yet? https://usu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_efn2hIJbul521M2

Can you spare a minute to help Keith Christensen? 403 signatures are still needed! Stop the Grand Canyon National Monument Designation - Preserve Our Western Heritage

To tell the age of any horse,
Inspect the lower jaw, of course.
Those six front teeth the tale will tell,
And every fear and doubt dispel.

Two middle nippers you behold
When the c**t is two weeks old.
Before eight weeks, two more will come,
At eight months, corners cut the gum.

The outside grooves will disappear
From middle two in just one year.
At two years old, the second pair
Will show these corners, too, are bare.

Again at two, the nippers drop,
At three, the second pair can't stop.
When four years old, the third pair goes,
At five, a full new set he shows.

The deep black spots will pass from view,
At six years, from the middle two.
The second pair at seven years;
At eight, the spot each corner clears.

From middle nippers, upper jaw,
At nine, the black spots will withdraw.
The second pair at ten are white;
Eleven finds the corners light.

As time goes on, all horsemen know
The oval teeth three-sided grow.
They longer get, project before,
'Til twenty, when we know no more.

***

Prof. O.R. Gleason
‘The Handbook of Horses’
c. 1890s.

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This old news clipping, from the Toronto Star Weekly (1910-1973) was originally saved by my grandfather. He sent the yellowed scrap on to me when I was just a little girl... and it was among my earliest goals, to commit the poem to memory.

“The whole goal is to keep the cow from moving too much and snapping the uterine artery, hemorrhaging and dying. Those arteries are fragile, so it’s a real risk,” says Kringen-Scholtz, associate veterinarian at Twin Lakes Animal Clinic, Madison, S.D.

All info found here: https://www.drovers.com/news/beef-production/its-uterine-prolapse-heres-what-you-need-know?fbclid=IwAR125yAX-BK76Tv4VSJE1Mf-1SXiIEVlQJdZOUUyJxh28adrdR2RO-QW3As&mibextid=Zxz2cZ