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wbvs58

wbvs58

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This group of heifers have been a pain this winter, they just can't keep it in their pants. A couple of them every 3 weeks jump out of where they are supposed to be and start looking for love. They have got into the neighbours a couple of times where there was a bull. I am missing one at the moment I suspect she has gone through the fence at the back into a thick scrub block with some cows. A search party on the weekend only found half the cows that are there and she wasn't with them so we just gotta wait until the others show up, meanwhile we will go ahead and try to get these settled.
It has been a good winter here and they have done well, most would be coming up to 14 months of age and their weights ranged from 407kg to 447kg (895-983 lb) so plenty heavy to start their careers. They have been on grass all winter and I take up a bucket of 14% feed, 9kg to the back gate between the 7 of them, this allows me to keep track of them. It is pretty much a bush block and you can't just look out and count them.
Today they had a vaccination for Ephemeral Fever (3 Day Sickness) which usually crops up late summer transmitted by buffaloe fly and an occaisional one will abort. They also had a Prostaglandin shot to try to bring them into align. Cidrs will go in in 10 days and hopefully they will be on the cusp of coming in season when the cidrs come out.
Ken

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I got a phone call today to say the heifer I'm missing has turned up at a property over the border behind me but a couple of properties over, travelled a fair way really through some pretty rough timbered country but she is safe where she is now on a big property with Angus cows and calves and some bulls. She can stay there for a couple of weeks when they will be yarding the herd to brand the calves and I'll go around then to pick her up.

Ken
 
wbvs58 said:
I got a phone call today to say the heifer I'm missing has turned up at a property over the border behind me but a couple of properties over, travelled a fair way really through some pretty rough timbered country but she is safe where she is now on a big property with Angus cows and calves and some bulls. She can stay there for a couple of weeks when they will be yarding the herd to brand the calves and I'll go around then to pick her up.

Ken
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Only true cattlemen will understand this . It’s crazy what cattle will do sometimes and the effort we put into trying to keep them safe and find lost ones . Sounds like you have a good neighbor.
 
Brute 23 said:
Do you have any concerns about keeping such athletic cattle, long term? 😄
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No, they will be all good once they are settled. They actually like it here and often return home on their own accord and often not the way they left. It is hard to describe the rough country that my cows run in sometimes, heavily timbered with limited access and gumtrees that like to drop branches on fences. In 18 years here I have not lost any cows, one drought year i lost two cows to botulism which were found a couple of months after the event.

Ken
 

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