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Thought I would update this thread, since this cow has again done something odd. This girl is a Built Right x Wide Body dam, and she has always had an embryo calf for us (since the calving above). Last year I wanted to get a natural calf out of her, since she is darn nice female with a good...

No. Lost a complete set (tangled up, could not get to them fast enough, both heifers), the "half calf" above, an embryo split we lost one (heifers, second calf had her head stuck behind the pelvis, but both front legs coming. Did not find cow until afternoon, first calf was already dry and had...

Well, the DNA is back and the calf is, in fact, the embryo we implanted (Cowboy Cut x Velvet). That would have made the calf 271 days gestation, and at 88 pounds I am glad he came when he did! Mystery solved! Oh, and we have had 6 sets of twins this season, WAY too many!

Calving has been an interesting year for us this time. So far, calved out 29 cows and had 6 sets of twins (well, 5 and a half, but that is a long story!). We have been breeding cattle since 07, so 13 years now. In those 13 years, best I can remember is 7 sets TOTAL in all that time, with one cow...

OK, so the second partial calf is, in fact, a calf. When he cut into the blob, there were teeth and part of a skull. There was an umbilicus and intestines. His theory? It is one of two things; the calf is the result of an embryo and the blob is a twin that was split after implantation...

We have our spring calving group at our other farm about 3 miles away. I went to check on them Saturday, and found a first calf heifer, what I thought, dead! Saw her from the road, belly up. I jumped the fence and ran over to her, and found her with her eyes rolled to the back of her head on her...

Poorly written. I think what she meant is that they have one abortion routinely (random cow I am assuming). They have had that "one abortion" already, so hopefully Cowgirl does not have any others. She runs a bunch of cows, so one abortion is not bad odds.

No milk production will bring them into heat pretty quickly. I had a first this fall. Cow calved 11/19/2019, 98 pound heifer calf. On 12/1, she was in active standing heat! That is just 12 days post calving. I chose to let her cycle again, no way she is healed enough to conceive!

Heifers. We weighed the dead one, 61 pounds. I'll get the live one this morning, but she is as big. That is a lot of calf for one cow. Funny thing is, when the vet arrived, the first thing he asked was the sex of the live twin. Then he made a joke about the second one better be a heifer too, or...

We are in the middle of calving right now, and I knew I had one close last night. She has been slimming for days, and really cut lose last night with the junk. Had my dughter check her when she got home from school, and we have a new heifer calf! Side note, this is Cookie, who was 4 in May...

Ron did not share that her dam has had 3 sets of twins, and always same sex. She always raised both. There is a thread on here somewhere about it. Tons of milk in that cow- family, I suspect this one will be like her dam. Great job, glad you got two healthy girls!

Please enlighten my on how with will work in it of itself? A non-cycling lactating young heifer will have no activity on her ovaries at this point. Cystorelin is a drug that makes the animal drop any oocytes that might be forming. If she is non-cycling, Cystorelin will do nothing. In a...

After they are weaned? Until they are 12 months old, at which we switch them back to just grass with the cows and watch for heats to breed them. We wean at 6 to 7 months of age, so they are separated for 5 to 6 months before returning to their moms.

Vet said calf is small because of the dam being sick at the most important growth stage of the calf. The last trimester of the pregnancy is when the calf puts on the most weight (said to be 2 plus pounds a day). Since the dam was sick, she lost weight instead of gaining it. We caught it too...

Ugh, you guys are brutal! The cow (heifer) was AI'd twice. We got busy with shows, and had THREE heifers that I had not observed passing over two cycles (that is when I stop watching them closely). I took all three heifers to a friend's place who owns a very nice AI stud bull. It was severe...

I was just digging through some files, and prior to Tiny Tina, our smallest was Taylor. Taylor was born in 2014 and topped the scales at 49 pounds (she is SimAngus - sired by Beef Maker). Same calf at Regionals before she was a yearling She is one of my top cows now, and averages 1300...

To piggy back on what Jeanne was saying, we now wean using these: https://quietwean.com/ They go in easy, and you hardly hear a peep out of the cow or calf. We leave them in for a week, then pull the calves out of the field and put them in a different pasture (and remove the flap). We did this...

We TOOK her to a bull, since we do not have one. She was there for maybe 45 days? We picked her up as stated.

Funny Butch! We have had numerous talks about sending her down the road. Might still, depending on how she does over the next few weeks. And the calf was 31 pounds. She just nursed again, and the dam is allowing her to suck without assistance.

First calf heifer calved this morning, to AI sire SC Pay Back (flush brother to Pay The Price). Vet called bred heifer safe 30 days back in September (she ran with the bull over the summer since we were out showing and I could not get her bred). I did the math, and 30 days prior would have been...