Agnes calves again.

[Beefy]

Agnes calved on Sept 14th. last year she calved on November 6th and the year before on Dec 12th. not bad for a 14 year old. shes a pretty good little cow. here is a pic of her with her new beefmaster BULL of course.

 

[Frankie]

He's a pretty one. I'm surprised to see the white face, though. Most Beefmasters around here are solid colored.

 

[Alice]

Love that calf, beefy. He looks so fit, and healthy and full of himself...but then, he's got a good momma.

Alice

 

[CowCop]

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Nice fertile cow.

Handsome growthy calf.

Older efficient cows are the true treasures of the herd.

 

[donnaIL]

Great looking cow and I always like a white face calf. The cow reminds me of the heifer (has had a couple calves since then) we bought a couple years ago and call Dolly. Nice

 

[ga. prime]

Beefy, would you call that your first calf of the fall season? Mine was born yesterday.

 

[Beefy]

He's a pretty one. I'm surprised to see the white face, though. Most Beefmasters around here are solid colored.

Frankie, i just get so darned bored with the plain old solid dark red beefmasters that when i go bull shopping i'm always a little biased toward the white-face beefmasters and the duns. just a personal preference. I too, was a bit surprised by the bald face though, i figured he'd be solid red or maybe mottled like his daddy is.

 

[Beefy]

Beefy, would you call that your first calf of the fall season? Mine was born yesterday.

no, we had 4 last week. i love fall calving, even more than spring.

 

[ga. prime]

Beefy wha'd ya do to those 'simmon trees across your fence there?

 

[chrisy]

Nice looking pair ;-) good pics as usual.

 

[Beefy]

nothing, i guess they just lost their leaves for the fall. i noticed some in the more drought stressed areas had lost their leaves this year already. of course we've had plenty of rain as of late but it must have been too little too late for some trees b/c a lot of them have already shed leaves for the fall. mostly persimmon and oaks. but pastures and crops look pretty good. i plan on burning that later on. (that little strip used to be planted pines)

 

[Jake]

Beefy, sounds to me like you might need to let him grow up a little bull if your itchin for her genetics to be reproduced.

 

[Beefy]

Beefy, sounds to me like you might need to let him grow up a little bull if your itchin for her genetics to be reproduced.

that might get me banned from cattletoday, Jake. i'm probably already in hot water for keeping Agnes after she lost her first calf to calving difficulty as a heifer. On top of all that, i got her a holstein bull to raise and grafted it onto her back before i learned that that is last thing i should have done. of course that was 12 years ago before i knew better. i'm surprised all the other cows didnt catch something and die already. to top it all off, i even retained some of her heifers! so i think that would just be the last straw..

 

[Herefordcross]

That's a good lookin' cow/calf!
I have to get batteries for the camera and get my wife to put a picture on here for me, We've got a 17 year old cow that is nuttier than a fruit cake. She came here as a bred heifer and she has never been wormed or anything at all, she runs when she get's near the alley and she won't stay with the group of cattle. She throws an awesome calf every year, I asked the vet last time he was out, how old he thought she was just by looking at her from 30-40' he said probably five or six years old, her bag is good, who knows about her teeth though.

 

[Jake]

that might get me banned from cattletoday, Jake. i'm probably already in hot water for keeping Agnes after she lost her first calf to calving difficulty as a heifer. On top of all that, i got her a holstein bull to raise and grafted it onto her back before i learned that that is last thing i should have done. of course that was 12 years ago before i knew better. i'm surprised all the other cows didnt catch something and die already. to top it all off, i even retained some of her heifers! so i think that would just be the last straw..

We raise most of our own bulls from a few select cows and one registered cow that are the best cows in the herd. They get AI bred and then the calves saved. We have so many pastures with 8-10 head that bulls for those group that are the quality that we demand bring $3-4000 on a sale and that will run a person into the ground.

But I probably shouldn't have said that, how dare somebody not go to a big breeder and spend all the profit they've had on a bull that's going to breed 25 cows during his life.

 

[Beefy]

that might get me banned from cattletoday, Jake. i'm probably already in hot water for keeping Agnes after she lost her first calf to calving difficulty as a heifer. On top of all that, i got her a holstein bull to raise and grafted it onto her back before i learned that that is last thing i should have done. of course that was 12 years ago before i knew better. i'm surprised all the other cows didnt catch something and die already. to top it all off, i even retained some of her heifers! so i think that would just be the last straw..

We raise most of our own bulls from a few select cows and one registered cow that are the best cows in the herd. They get AI bred and then the calves saved. We have so many pastures with 8-10 head that bulls for those group that are the quality that we demand bring $3-4000 on a sale and that will run a person into the ground.

But I probably shouldn't have said that, how dare somebody not go to a big breeder and spend all the profit they've had on a bull that's going to breed 25 cows during his life.

Ive thought about doing that with some of our cows. I would like to have a few LBar5502 sons out of some of my cows. ideally i would like to have enough crossfencing to have a small herd of the very best cows to breed to really good beefmaster bulls that would generate enough replacements for me and then breed the rest of the cows to a more terminal type sire.

I have about decided to buy one of the bull calves we had from dad just b/c i want to see how he will grow out.

 

[Scout]

Demetrius?