Calving season 2023 has started.

[coachg]

We've had a little rain this past week , been spotty but we are cutting and baling hay so not real disappointed. Cut our largest field yesterday. So far we are about 2/3 our normal yield . December freeze I think damaged our stand of rye grass .

 

[TCRanch]

They look great!

Just saw a post on FB about another black bear sighting in Rosalie & Henegar. That's awfully close to you - stay vigilant.

 

[coachg]

Two new ones born today . June is getting late for us but these are 2 we have moved up from fall calving . View attachment 30943View attachment 30944

Lost the calf in the top picture. Group of black buzzards on it when I found them Saturday afternoon . Suspect they killed it . Cow is one of those that lays her baby down and leaves it and goes back later to nurse .

 

[Travlr]

Lost the calf in the top picture. Group of black buzzards on it when I found them Saturday afternoon . Suspect they killed it . Cow is one of those that lays her baby down and leaves it and goes back later to nurse .

Need a good (dead?) calf replica that you can lay out in the field and surround with leghold traps. Maybe it would have to smell dead.

I'd sure like to see wildlife camera footage of how vultures hunt and attack livestock.

 

[kenny thomas]

Whoever was filming should have been shooting instead.

 

[50/50Farms]

That's literally the only solution to the black vultures. Drop some lead on those SOBs, and be careful when you walk up if they ain't dead, they're vicious and disease ridden and have the ability to regurgitate a reeking and corrosive mess as a defense. And they're kinda tough, I shot one four times with a .22lr once before it calmed down for good. One through the chest and burr of the wing (beautiful shot, 90 yards, freestanding, uphill), one in the neck, one in the head, and another in the body).

 

[coachg]

I have one less thanks to my trusty single shot 410 .

 

[coachg]

They look great!

Just saw a post on FB about another black bear sighting in Rosalie & Henegar. That's awfully close to you - stay vigilant.

 

[TCRanch]

Nope! That's too close.

 

[kenny thomas]

He aint bothering anything. Unless its trash, bird feeders, bee hives, fruit trees, berries, creep feeders. Well pretty much anything eatable.