My new baby, Molly

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I know, they're not big horns, are they? But they're pretty. If I had a Highland or something with wider horns, they'd never fit in my headlock. It was made for a cow with no horns, but Molly has the moves figured out to get in and out without bumping them. :)

I totally understand the heterozygous and homozygous thing, but lots of people think that Angus will only produce polled calves, so I have to keep explaining about the hetero- homo- difference. (I also understand that the Angus association would LIKE all Angus cattle to be homozygous polled, but they don't run around killing the offenders, so there will likely always be some heterozygous Angus running around.)
 
I think Rich and I are going to work on putting the new chicken house together today, so I'll take the camera out with me, and if I see the cows, I'll get some new pictures of Molly. Meanwhile, here's one I took a week or two ago right after a huge thunder/rain storm. Not a particularly good picture, but you can see the shine on her, even in the dim light. (And see how observant I am - her halter strap was out of the buckle then, and I didn't notice it.)

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That stall looks wet and icky, but it was dry. In any case, it's been re-bedded, because her Highness prefers a cushy bed to rest on. She would SO use a waterbed mattress.
 
Haha! This morning, she must have got to the barn first, because she was in the cushy calf stall. That stall has a ton of shavings in it, and it's nice and fluffy.
 
Well, we've been out working on that new chicken coop for the last three days, and I haven't seen the cows. I see them early in the morning, chilling in the stalls in the barn, but then they go out to the trees, and I don't see them again until the next morning. I'm too tired to go traipsing the property looking for them, so I guess pictures will have to wait.

But I did get some chickens to put in my new chicken house! It's not even finished yet (the wire isn't up, it's just the framing), but one of our neighbors said she had a hen in a lick tub sitting on 11 eggs and they started hatching today, so she thought maybe I might want them. I said YES. So her husband loaded the lick tub in his truck and brought it over this afternoon. The hen was a bit ruffled at all the moving, but once we got her in a nice dim corner of the barn, she settled right down. I have food and water just outside the tub for her when she wants it, but she had settled down on her babies before I left the barn and it looked like everyone was sleeping. I'm so happy to have chickens again! They'll be free ranging until we get the wire up on the coop, then I'll put them in there for a while so they get to know it as "home," then they can come out and free range again. Yippeeee!
 
Summer vacation is almost over. :) Three more weeks to calving date. Molly's udder is starting to fill now, and I can hardly wait! I'm hoping for a heifer calf, but a bull calf would also work, because we lost one of our big freezers a few weeks ago, and half our meat. ALL the hamburger and stewmeat had to be dumped. I want to keep her first heifer as a companion for her, and to raise an extra calf every year, but I also don't want to be buying hamburger at the store. We shall see what Molly has in store for us.
 
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Yowza, what a difference a week makes. From "I think I see a little bit of udder forming" to "YIKES, THAT'S HUGE!" It's not really huge right now, it's just absolutely perfect. I wish it wouldn't get any bigger, but there are still two weeks to go. God help me. 😵‍💫

I finally remembered to take the camera out with me yesterday, but when I tried to take pictures, it shut off every time I clicked the shutter button. Rich forgot to put the new batteries in it last week. :rolleyes: Well, there are batteries in it now, so if I can remember to take it out with me tomorrow morning, there will be current pics.

AND, my wonderful brother is sending me one of his old cell phones that I can take better pictures with , as well as a regular digital camera that he never uses. It's smaller and newer than my old clunker, so between the two of them, maybe I'll have a camera handy all the time. I hate having that old heavy camera hanging around my neck, which is probably why I keep forgetting to take it with me. Plus it doesn't work in cold weather, so it's hard to take winter pictures.

Anyway, I hope Molly doesn't end up being a 7 to 10 gallon a day girl, but at least now that I have chickens again, they can help dispose of the excess. I have a feeling they're going to be getting a lot of clabber and chicken cheese during the winter.
 
Today at 12:38 PM
"Are we going to do this again? Really?"

You started it. On another board I simply wrote that as a nurse I was concerned those sharp horns might hurt you. Ever since the snide remarks against nursing even following me here concerning calf vaccination
 
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True. I have 5 scars where a first calf heifer kicked the skin off my arm when first milked. Should have worn those leather gauntlets :)
Cow Can't Kick device solved the problem.
 
The cow Kant Kick is helpful until the stanchion pops open and the new heifer disappears out the barn
door bucking and kicking.
It came off by the time she hit the corral.
I sort of mumbled something to my mother that I must not have got the stanchion
put back together right. I had taken it apart to accommodate my Highlander. :)

I personally think Lannie has done a really good job with Molly. I do hope we get to see more pictures of her.
 
What a wreck. My milking stanchion in the barn is made of tubular steel gates and corral panels and held together with chains. In front of her is a manger with a flake of alfalfa she eats while being milked. She does not want to leave and besides, she can't.
 

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