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Do you have a very large hand, or is it just a visual effect of the glove color? It does not make him or any part of him look especially impressive size-wise. You are obviously someone who wishes to gather attention.

Spring or fall calving? Weaning age? Breed? Implanted or creep feed? Location? Spring - later than most. Norm around here is August, I wait until October when warmer and maybe drier. 6.5 months avg. This year kept my replacement heifers on until 9 months. An experiment in lifelong effect...

Some of my cows came from a black herd in which there was a red branch of one family. I always wished I'd have some. Red isn't a defect.

What do you know of the horned allele's presence in the rest of your herd? If all cows but the scurred ones are homozygous polled, of course you'll not see it, even in the steers. That's my situation here, I think. I was going to comment that I wonder if you may have a point, since my scurs...

I was initially led astray by the assertions of Angus breeders that there were no scurs in pedigree cattle, certainly not in their valuable bulls. But my sires are sired by their bulls over many years and none of my bulls have scurs either. The fact that a couple of my cows do is impossible...

That's my understanding of the genetics. That's why I see so few of them amongst the steers, who ought to have them from their invisibly-scurred sire: their mothers must be all homozygous polled.

Yes. I think that's your answer. I have purebred, smooth-polled Angus bulls (they're all like that, of course) but having had at least two scurred cows in my herd in the last few years, I have to conclude that some of my bulls have carried scurs. The cows who have scurs must be heterozygous...

So was that you answering candidly or are they all off to the abbatoir?

I find my layabout lot doing that all the time. They're supposed to be working!

Exactly. How's a self-respecting helminth supposed to make a living with that sort of thing going on?

You sir, are a nut. :D

I beg your pardon. We have a "boss" product here that is a wormer, so I presumed it was similar. But the question remains for the other times: why worm when they're obviously taking good care of themselves?

Goodness! When they're that fat, why do you even worm them? They're getting enough resources to mount their own immune response to anything coming their way!

My twins have a supernumerary teat on a back quarter, with a slight difference in placement in almost-mirrored positions. I figured that might well be similar to how white patches can settle differently. From the front they're the same animal, except for the hair whorl direction, which isn't a...

No, the twins are not full siblings, they're two halves of the same embryo, so essentially the same genetic animal. Thus their calves are closer than double cousins, actually genetically full sibs, as if their mothers were the same cow. The calves have the same gentic lottery as if they were...

I've had occasional fun with the calves of my identical twins, in the first couple of years using the same sire, so the calves were genetically full siblings. Just as different from each other as any other fraternal siblings but interesting to watch them growing up together, in the same season...

Oh that's bad. Thanks for posting and for the warnings! That tree one is something to watch for here, for sure.

15: very relaxed. :D

Oh they are a pretty trio!

I used to use an egg with lamb milk replacer. These days we keep a milking cow around the place for just that reason - as well as milk, butter, cheese. Sorry about your heifer. It's tough losing them and all the hopes they carried. Will the bull calf be worth using?