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Caleb Widener

Caleb Widener

Cattle manager at Adelante Farms in Roswell, New Mexico, and cattle industry professional (99 Cattle Co.), featured on That Ranching Podcast.

Sep 25, 2026

speaker_1HOST
2:04
So when you bring cattle in, um, from day zero, when do you typically see your disease challenges or a disease break?
2:14
Uh, we're on a pretty, uh, intense, uh, vaccine protocol.
2:22
Um, typically we'll do a three to four days off, vac- vaccinate them, do a two-week booster, and then we will typically have to start paying real, real close attention at about 21 days.
2:35
Um, I've noticed the last couple years that's kind of creeping up to, could be up to 30 to 40 days a, but-

6 MINS LATER

speaker_1HOST
8:54
Obviously, we've got to run them across a scale before we get any data.
8:57
Um, just a little brighter.
8:58
I don't, I think they've maybe lost a little more of their dead hair than the heifers.
9:02
Um, intakes are up slightly a- above where we would normally have them right now.

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