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Boy, you're as impatient as I am! But good timing, because SHE'S ON THE TRAILER NOW! Yippeee! I just heard from my friend down in Arkansas, and she said Molly had earned her "redhead" badge and then some! She managed to break through a weak spot in the fence when they were trying to drive...

I'm not sure if I mentioned it before, but I'll be keeping her first heifer. Probably won't be much in the way of a milker, being 3/4 beef, but she could certainly raise a calf for me every year, and be company for her momma. So eventually, I'll have two cows again. I can't wait for the...

She's going to have to settle for a horse friend for the time being. Our Arab gelding, Horus, absolutely loves his cow friends. Ever since his lady-love died many years ago, he's had only cows and calves for company, but he likes everybody, even the dogs. He shares hay with the cows (as in...

I thought he looked a little light in the caboose, too, but he's not very old. However, I kept a couple of half Angus steers for the freezer that had had meatier butts than this. In the end, it doesn't matter (ha, that turned into a pun!) because I don't care about the specific breeding. I...

Here's the daddy. Not a great picture with his head in the tub, but it was the best I got. His name is No-Bull (Noble, get it?), but my friend calls him No-No! Because he's a boy and he likes to get into trouble, LOL!

I'll see if I can get one.

Thanks, you guys, I actually think I understood those last several posts! And I'm only on my third cup of coffee! At least now I know it COULD be possible, and HOW it could happen. One mystery solved! Several million to go... ;)

I actually asked my friend if her bull was red, but nope, he's black. I don't know enough about genetics to guess whether he might have a red gene somewhere in him (but black would be dominant, right?). And he doesn't have horns. He's got three calves on the ground so far, including Molly, and...

Plus her coloring. I've only had cows for 14 years, and backyard milk cows at that, but every single calf (I've lost count how many now) out of my Jersey/Hereford mamas was born black or cocoa and the cocoa ones darkened to black by the time they were a year old. Twice I had calves with a...

I found it! Here's Miss Molly, daughter of a Jersey mama and a (maybe) Angus daddy. Who really cares? She's cute! And when those horns get bigger, she'll have handy grab-handles! 😊

So her daddy MIGHT be an Angus after all? Whooooo, I'm so confused now, but it's OK. I've always heard that Angus are all polled, and all their offspring are polled, even if the other parent has horns, but you know how it goes with "I've always heard." So I wanted to ask here, from people who...

She's actually gonna end up looking like Bessie, I think. :)

I should have read more first. I just found an old post asking the same question, and no, they don't have horns. Ever. So what might LOOK like a polled black Angus bull but not really be a polled black Angus bull? Something that throws calves with horns? A RED calf, by the way. Not...

Just wondering... I thought they were all polled, and any calf from at least one Angus parent would also be polled. Is that true? I'm not good at genetics, but is there a possibility of a polled Angus bull and a horned (not Angus) cow having a horned calf? My cow was Jersey/Hereford and had...

LOL! And I thought my Bandit was wide! She's only half Herford, though. It's almost scary to see her from the back. :lol2: I don't know if this is something you might want to try, but if you can get a tape measure around the girth of a cow (or steer), and then measure from the point of...

Oh, yeah, I started working with her udder the week I brought her home. (To make a long story short, we originally got her in April of 2007, thinking she was bred, and it turned out she wasn't, so she went back to the bull in December and we brought her back home in April of this year, so I've...

Yep, Chippie, she's developing a bag, and she has the nicest long teats... perfect for handmilking. She's starting to string occasionally now, too. She was palpated and confirmed pregnant before we brought her home from her "conjugal visit." ;-) The vet said she thought she had settled the...

My plan in a nutshell. Except I'm hoping for a 3/4 Jersey daughter, but I'll take what I can get. :D Because I'm well aware of the dreaded CALPC disease ("Cows Are Like Potato Chips," you can't have just one), I'm hoping for this first calf to be a heifer, and she'll join the family as an...

LOL! The only one of those breeds I've ever heard of is the Limousin! But then I'm still a rank beginner when it comes to cows. ;-) I think the brindle is awfully pretty, too, in fact I'm still in awe that she's not only pretty, but has a very good temperament, too. I got lucky. She'll...

Thanks, that's good to know, because her future breedings will most likely be to a local Hereford bull, unless I can find someone to AI. If this first calf is a heifer, we'll keep her, then future calves will be freezer bound and Hereford daddies would actually be preferable. Dun, I was...