Calving 2025

[coachg]

Seems like you are getting more heifers this year .

 

[lithuanian farmer]

The third calf for today. Parthenaise sired bull calf out of 3/4lim cow. 285days

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Seems like you are getting more heifers this year .

At first had more bulls, now got some heifers, but the total I would think is around the same.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Some of the calves. Only 6 left to calve at the mom's place.







Pure lim

Currently oldest cow- 12years old. Should be back incalf from a sexed straw from the first try.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Abit different update. Three newborns at my own place, not my mom's. The first calving season for my own herd. Three heifers calved all with heifers.

Brown swiss sired out of holstein. 280 days. Gonna use beef bulls on all dairy ones after their first calves.

Blondex out of limxblondex. Around 275 days. Will need to check my notes, but very early birth.

Pure Parthenaise heifer! 285 days.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Forgot to add. All born today The first two almost at the same time as while assisting the first one saw that the second has feet out already. Two hours later went to check on the first two and saw that one more heifer started calving.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Very special lady born today. Sired by Maine anjou, out of simxlimx cow. 289days, calved herself, but a big calf.

 

[mwj]

Why is she special. Would the cow be special to you?

 

[Travlr]

Very special lady born today. Sired by Maine anjou, out of simxlimx cow. 289days, calved herself, but a big calf.
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Your pastures look a lot better. The mud has turned to grass. That's a pretty calf. It will be nice to see it on it's feet and growing.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Why is she special. Would the cow be special to you?

Only the third Maine Anjou calf and second heifer. Add her colour, which I really wanted to get and her dam is a real good cow. So almost a perfect heifer was born. Needless to say I wanted it to be a heifer.
Her dam's first heifer just had her first calf- red with white blaze and is proving to be a very promising young cow, so more heifers from the same dam are more than welcome.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Your pastures look a lot better. The mud has turned to grass. That's a pretty calf. It will be nice to see it on it's feet and growing.

It got green real quick as we had been getting an enormous amount of rain for the past month.

Today:

Definitelly gonna use the same bull on this cow.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

One newborn from yesterday- piedmontese sired heifer, out of 10 years old limx cow, 274 days gestation.

And one from tonight from the dairy corner- brown swiss heifer out of sim x holstein heifer. Sexed straw, 282days gestation. The last dairy calf for this year. Used dairy on a couple dairy heifers, but will start using only beef bulls on them in the future.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Another heifer born yesterday. 75%simmental, 279 days gestation. Dam is 3rd calver and that's her first heifer.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Quite an overbaked boy born today. Dam is second calver, 295 days gestation, unassisted.

93% charolais

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Moving to an end slowly. Mom finished with her herd. We still have 3 heifers left, all due on 23-27th of July.
Three newborns from yesterday.

Belgian blue sired heifer out of older dairy cow at 281 day.
Two pure parthenaise calves out of heifers. Same sire of the calves and same maternal sire. Heifer at 283 days and bull at 293 days.

 

[branxchar&charx]

Great calves. The little roan heifer, potential keeper?

 

[Travlr]

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That is an impressive new mother... It will be interesting to see the calf at weaning.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Great calves. The little roan heifer, potential keeper?

She sure is. It's the last year for her dam as she started having some health issues, so really wanted that she had a heifer this time. Last year she had a black limx heifer, so one more heifer to add.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

That is an impressive new mother... It will be interesting to see the calf at weaning.

It sure will be. The bull calf should be raised for future breeding, so probably will be able to see him fully grown as well.