I guess there's a certain protocol for using names and numbers with some breeds. Naming our calves almost always starts an argument here....we've got an informal agreement where we try to take turns with picking names, but if the other person strongly disagrees, we've got to find something that we both like....(of course, the names I pick are always better, ha!).
This year's calves are: Melinda (after the young vet who AI'd the mama, her first official AI after becoming a vet), Loreena (after singer Loreena McKennitt), Kate (after the vet who hired the vet who AI'd the mama), Bounce (cause she got a little hypothermic a couple of hours after birth but bounced back after being warmed up in our kitchen with towels and a hairdryer), Buttercup (the field was full of them when she was born), and Cinco (born on May 5). Our cows know their names and I can walk by a pasture, holler out "Fat Mama, where's your baby?" and she'll look at me, then look around and moo at her baby and then I know where the calf is (her calves like to sneak under the fence to nap in the woods...so Fat Mama and Buttercup just spent 5 days in the "Ain't OK Corral").
The Dexter registry has a limit of 21 letters and spaces. Do other registries have a limit?
