A red-head I love:

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

This is our fall heifer we showed all summer, SV Sexy Lady. We flushed her to Red Stone. She was just a year old and she did great. We got 13 good embryos. We are flushing her tomorrow with Next Level. I stole the collage from my nephew's FB page. She is a Mack AF daughter - a sire I purchase semen out of Colorado from an individual. Been using him for many years.
This heifer is out of a cow that was 13 years old when she calved - and now at 14, she has a red bull calf going to Colorado.

 

[4hfarms]

She looks soft and cuddly like a stuffed animal. LoL

Beautiful!

 

[Travlr]

How many flushes will you do over her lifetime, and will she be a productive cow after flushing?

 

[redcowsrule33]

She sure has that look!

 

[Silver]

I honestly can't tell when their head is up looking for airplanes. I can't compare it to my animals because they don't walk around like that.
She does appear long and deep. Do you have any pics of her without her head up in the air?

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

I honestly can't tell when their head is up looking for airplanes. I can't compare it to my animals because they don't walk around like that.
She does appear long and deep. Do you have any pics of her without her head up in the air?

Sexy Lady is the one on the left. We used to call her "Frosty" nickname because of her frosted ears. She was about 8-9 months old in this picture. We rarely take pictures with their head down or even level. Not the pose for best look. But, you asked and here you go!

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

How many flushes will you do over her lifetime, and will she be a productive cow after flushing?

You can IVF flush every 2 weeks. There is no stress/damage to her. You can even do IVF flushes while she is pregnant - up to about 100 days pregnant. You give her hormone shots for 3 1/2 days wait 1 day, then the vet/ET puts 2 probes in her. One is a camera, the other is a suction tube. He spots the Oocytes and just sucks them up. She produced 36 Oocytes - she was super fertile and was over stimulated. A lot of the Oocytes were over developed. ET Vet lowered her dosage of hormone shots for this collection.
We probably will not be flushing her again. She was sold a few months ago (bartered for contract work) and we kept her to keep showing her. New owner asked if we would keep this heifer and another fall that he bought and breed them. So, while she's here, we decided to keep her genetics in the tank. The Oocytes are sent to TransOva and they fertilize them with semen we supply. Then they grow 7 days, are analyzed for quality, then the good ones are frozen. Or, you can pay them to put them fresh in cows they keep at their facilities for recips - which you then buy the pregnant cows.

 

[Silver]

Sexy Lady is the one on the left. We used to call her "Frosty" nickname because of her frosted ears. She was about 8-9 months old in this picture. We rarely take pictures with their head down or even level. Not the pose for best look. But, you asked and here you go!
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Thank you. She is a fine looking animal. I like her.
I would consider the high head pictures the worst look lol

 

[farmerjan]

I agree @Silver ... I do not like the pictures of the cows with their heads held way up. Just like the darn goats and sheep they show with their heads at the most awful angle way up... I want a pic of a cow with her standing NATURALLY... too many look like they have a sway back with their heads up in the air...

 

[Silver]

I agree @Silver ... I do not like the pictures of the cows with their heads held way up. Just like the darn goats and sheep they show with their heads at the most awful angle way up... I want a pic of a cow with her standing NATURALLY... too many look like they have a sway back with their heads up in the air...

Yes it's an awful look. Nothing natural about it. I want to see a cow looking like a cow. Not doing a Llama impersonation

 

[farmerjan]

I also greatly dislike the pictures of bulls with all that grass and stuff around their feet/lower legs. I want to see the feet and how they stand on them... It is not a put down of your animals and most all your pictures show their tremendous strength in their feet/legs... It is the industry standard for all breeds, to show them nearly hock deep in "stuff"....

 

[puzzled in oregon]

This is our fall heifer we showed all summer, SV Sexy Lady. We flushed her to Red Stone. She was just a year old and she did great. We got 13 good embryos. We are flushing her tomorrow with Next Level. I stole the collage from my nephew's FB page. She is a Mack AF daughter - a sire I purchase semen out of Colorado from an individual. Been using him for many years.
This heifer is out of a cow that was 13 years old when she calved - and now at 14, she has a red bull calf going to Colorado.
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What is the cue for them to raise their heads? Does your nephew shout "Incoming"?

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

What is the cue for them to raise their heads? Does your nephew shout "Incoming"?

She is on halter in all 3 pictures. When you show them, you NEVER want the judge viewing them with their head down. Not what they want to see. You want to show off a nice FEMININE front end on them. Even a bull, you want smooth, clean fronted for CE.
That is the hard thing when taking pictures for sale catalogs - getting them to "pose" correctly. Want 2 front feet square under them, and want the rear feet split apart - and HEAD UP!! Look at bull sale catalogs.
Looks like we will be getting around 18 heifer embryos from yesterday's flush. Depends if they all get fertilized and grow for 7 days. She had around 35 Oocytes. The tech immediately looks at them under the microscope and throws away the bad ones. They delivered the 14 frozen embryos from the 1st flush. I had said 13, but there were 14 good Oocytes 1st time and they all fertilized and survived freezing.

 

[Travlr]

That is the hard thing when taking pictures for sale catalogs - getting them to "pose" correctly. Want 2 front feet square under them, and want the rear feet split apart - and HEAD UP!! Look at bull sale catalogs.

Funny how the show circuit dictates the stance of animals in sale catalogs which are being sold to people that are trying to buy working cattle by looking for what works for them out in the field and not in a show ring.

Looks like we will be getting around 18 heifer embryos from yesterday's flush. Depends if they all get fertilized and grow for 7 days. She had around 35 Oocytes. The tech immediately looks at them under the microscope and throws away the bad ones. They delivered the 14 frozen embryos from the 1st flush. I had said 13, but there were 14 good Oocytes 1st time and they all fertilized and survived freezing.

Congrats on the successful and productive flush, fertilization, and freeze. What are you asking for them?

 

[puzzled in oregon]

She is on halter in all 3 pictures. When you show them, you NEVER want the judge viewing them with their head down. Not what they want to see. You want to show off a nice FEMININE front end on them. Even a bull, you want smooth, clean fronted for CE.
That is the hard thing when taking pictures for sale catalogs - getting them to "pose" correctly. Want 2 front feet square under them, and want the rear feet split apart - and HEAD UP!! Look at bull sale catalogs.
Looks like we will be getting around 18 heifer embryos from yesterday's flush. Depends if they all get fertilized and grow for 7 days. She had around 35 Oocytes. The tech immediately looks at them under the microscope and throws away the bad ones. They delivered the 14 frozen embryos from the 1st flush. I had said 13, but there were 14 good Oocytes 1st time and they all fertilized and survived freezing.

I really was curious how you "cue" them to raise there heads. Do they get tapped under the chin with a show stick, is it upward pressure on the halter ? Do they reach a point where the pressure is very subtle or just slight movement of the hand that they respond to ? The bulls appeared to be without a halter, is that a tedious photo session with precise timing ?

 

[GoWyo]

I really was curious how you "cue" them to raise there heads. Do they get tapped under the chin with a show stick, is it upward pressure on the halter ? Do they reach a point where the pressure is very subtle or just slight movement of the hand that they respond to ? The bulls appeared to be without a halter, is that a tedious photo session with precise timing ?

Picture pen work is fun and frustrating. Walk the animal into position and hope for proper feet placement and get them to stop and hold. Then do whatever it takes to get them to look forward with head up and ears forward. 90% of the time they scissor their rear legs the opposite way you want them. We use rattles, pom-poms, kazoo, squawk like a chicken, coyote call, whatever to get their attention once they set up. If broke to lead, can set them up on halter and Photoshop can remove the halter and other distractions.

 

[simme]

Lots of work required these days for a breeding stock sale. Still pictures. Video catalog. Lots of effort required to prepare for that. Washing and clipping cattle, professionals hired sometimes, backgrounds, fences, pens, panels, grass, shavings, weather, wind, lighting/sun. So many things involved and so much work. The next time you flip through a sale catalog, think about the effort (and cost) all that content required.

Remember 50 or 60 years ago when sales catalogs were mostly just pedigree and a welcome letter. A lot has changed.

 

[ClinchValley86]

She's a dandy, Jeanne! Super nice.

 

[farmerjan]

She is a nice thick animal... I just don't like the high head... but I hear what you are saying...

 

[Named'em Tamed'em]

I thought this was going to be about Lucille Ball!!