'Bout Time!

[TCRanch]

Snapped some updated pics this morning. And yes, I have every intention of retaining Peck, Piper's 2nd heifer. Piper was bred the 2nd week I turned out the bulls; continuing to breed back "on schedule".

Piper, maintaining condition, nice and slick.

Pepper, currently 17 months.

Peck, currently 5 months (Pepper & Peck were both born on 3/7).

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Pepper and Peck look GREAT.
I would never even think about rejecting a heifer calf out of a heifer - just for that reason. Your heifers should represent your best genetics. I don't breed to throw-away bulls. With the genetics available in a walking bull or frozen, you should have plenty of options to breed your heifers...for calving at 24 months old and not have a dink calf.
The article points out many reasons a female might not calve first cycle.
For me, any female that calves in a breeding season, year after year is a keeper along with her offspring.

 

[MurraysMutts]

Pick a Peck of Pickled Peppers?

Love your cattle @TCRanch !

 

[TCRanch]

Pick a Peck of Pickled Peppers?

Love your cattle @TCRanch !

That's the theme! Next heifer will be Pickles and any bull calves will be Peter. I'll have to get creative if she keeps having heifers.

 

[TCRanch]

Moved the bred heifers to the west 80 with my retained heifers. Pepper & Peck immediately bonded and hang together. I feel like they know they're sisters. And wow, what a difference a year makes!

 

[ClinchValley86]

Moved the bred heifers to the west 80 with my retained heifers. Pepper & Peck immediately bonded and hang together. I feel like they know they're sisters. And wow, what a difference a year makes!View attachment 39030

Built super nice! These out of Woody by chance?

 

[TCRanch]

Built super nice! These out of Woody by chance?

Pepper's sire was Johnson, but Peck is a Woody baby. Willy tagged Piper this year, so it could get interesting.

 

[ClinchValley86]

Pepper's sire was Johnson, but Peck is a Woody baby. Willy tagged Piper this year, so it could get interesting

Your bull names really speak to my heart.

Ol Woody sure made a good one there!

 

[TCRanch]

Your bull names really speak to my heart.

I don't think you were on CT when I had Dick, Rod, Peter, MoLester, Bob The Viagra Guy (and then there was Not Bob, not to be confused with Bob) . . . Oh, and Stud Muffin broke his, um, "muffin". They have ONE job! Might as well have fun with it.

 

[ClinchValley86]

@TCRanch
Holy ****! Im smiling ear to ear after reading that.

I've used old typ3 names thus far. Had an Abraham and a Sampson. Going to call the chocolate bull Hershel. (Hershey's)

 

[GoWyo]

Maybe I'll name my next heifer bull Prince Andrew or just Bill.

 

[TCRanch]

Update!

Pepper had a bull calf, Cayenne, and Piper had another heifer, Pickles! Super excited with this lineage.

Piper & Pickles:








Pepper & Cayanne:

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Great!! love the names.
So you use Red tags for girls (me too!) What is the K on top?

 

[TCRanch]

Great!! love the names.
So you use Red tags for girls (me too!) What is the K on top?

Those tags are orange. Each year the calves from the first calf heifers get a new color and I rotate until I run out and start all over again. The K on the tag is from the matriarch of this lineage. She was one of our original cows, #5. Our first heifers from those cows were #1-A, #2-A, etc. Piper was #5-K because she was the 11th calf out of old #5 Girl. Pepper is #105 because she was Piper's 1st calf, Peck was #205 and Pickles is #305 but the K is always there. Total cluster eff but between the tag colors and numbers, I know exactly the lineage, including great-grand dams for some of them.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Yup - I have a "number" that represents the cow family. I have #3 goes back to a cow Hudson Pines leased from me and flushed her for a year (every 60 days) - I got half the embryos for the lease. She averaged 19 viable embryos. Half my herd is #3. I have a few #9 - that number goes back to my first year breeding Simmentals. All of mine have the year letter after the number and the letter (or letters) helping me ID the dam.
Like TD3M is born in 2024 out of 3TD. I have to get pretty creative with the 3 cow family! But, like you - cow family if most important.