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Frankie

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At least she waited for the temp to go up a bit. It was about 22 degrees when she spit this little girl out.

Our first Final Answer calf, a heifer.

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Buddy the Beagle says "I'll help."

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:D At least yours waited for warmer weather. I had one born this morning during the coldest temperature morning in several years (16f). Was getting aggravated at her as she is about a month and a half late to start with. Calf is doing fine and mama gets to stay another year......... maybe.
 
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The cow must know the dog?? Our dogs wouldn't dare get that close to a new momma and calf, with good reason. Looks like all went well, congrats.
 
Nice looking cow and calf. Question though: what's that brownish green stuff all over the ground???

Everything here is white!

Congratulations. It would be nice to see more pictures of the calf in a few days. Pretty country.

Jim
 
SRBeef":lnhj1rfw said:
Nice looking cow and calf. Question though: what's that brownish green stuff all over the ground???

Everything here is white!

Congratulations. It would be nice to see more pictures of the calf in a few days. Pretty country.

Jim
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White stuff? We had some of that a few days ago. To tell you the truth, if we lived where there was a lot of it year after year, we'd probably move to an apartment.

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These were taken after most of the eight inches had melted. We lived in Denver for several years and I dealt with enough snow to last my lifetime then. You guys who live with it year after year are tougher than me. :nod:
 
MO_cows":2k3qav2h said:
The cow must know the dog?? Our dogs wouldn't dare get that close to a new momma and calf, with good reason. Looks like all went well, congrats.
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They all know the dog, but some of the older ones don't care; they just don't want him around. This gal is young and very busy right now. Believe me, the dog had his eye on her.
 
sidebar . . . how many FA calves have you had? Do you like them? Males and females? Got some semen in the tank I'm waiting to use once I hear he's cleared FCS but I've heard he's not all he's cracked up to be - no data of my own though.
 
angus9259":3rbuvuzb said:
sidebar . . . how many FA calves have you had? Do you like them? Males and females? Got some semen in the tank I'm waiting to use once I hear he's cleared FCS but I've heard he's not all he's cracked up to be - no data of my own though.
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Just had another FA heifer born out of a Krugerrand heifer. This is our first time to use him so we'll see what happens. Lots of bulls aren't all they "cracked up to be." So we wait for accuracies to get above .85 before we use one. His calving ease is proven. One heifer (out of an 036 heifer) weighed 70 lbs, the other one out of a bigger Krugerrand daughter weighed 72 lbs. If he's a FC carrier, we'll have the heifers tested.
 
>>If he's a FC carrier, we'll have the heifers tested.<<

I hope so. Hope you just don't carry them down to the sale barn and pawn them off as "good commercial angus".
 
our cows would have killed the dog.

saw one cow kill a buzzard last fall. the feathers are still out there.

the cows are mostly sold now but my son has the cow that killed the buzzard.

I still have a few just to keep me broke and off the street.
 
pdfangus":2q4xsuht said:
our cows would have killed the dog.

saw one cow kill a buzzard last fall. the feathers are still out there.

the cows are mostly sold now but my son has the cow that killed the buzzard.

I still have a few just to keep me broke and off the street.
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Most of our cows tolerate him pretty well. He's learned to be alert; some of the older ones don't like him even when there are no calves around. Some of the more tolerant ones don't like him around when they have new babies. Strange dogs get all their attention, though. I've seen open yearling heifers chase coyotes out of the pasture.

We had an old Pierre cow for a long time that I was careful not to walk between her and her baby until it was a week or so old. She waded into the pond one time to run geese off because her new baby had decided to get close to the pond where the geese had the gall to be swimming. She never made a move to attack anybody, but she was an intense mother.

We keep talking about selling them off, but it's hard to think about not having cattle around. We've cut back, gone to one calving season this year, and used a clean up bull last year. So we'll see how that works.
 
frankie you an i dissagree on alot of things.but i never thought youd be 1 of those people to ever consider selling out till you was dead.
 
bigbull338":3tpierf5 said:
frankie you an i dissagree on alot of things.but i never thought youd be 1 of those people to ever consider selling out till you was dead.
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Several years ago we lost some lease pasture and had to sell cattle. We ended up selling more than we planned, the heart of the heard, actually. We were left with mostly older cows and open heifers. We've rebuilt, but it just hasn't been as much fun since then. Bad backs and allegries are also starting to drag on us after almost 20 years of AI and weighing calves. On the other hand, we're not moving to town and the grass needs to be grazed. But commercial cattle need to be fed in winter, too. We got a letter Friday from a rancher looking to lease pasture to expand his ranching operation. So we're mulling over options.
 
Frankie":2x8tfuq2 said:
We keep talking about selling them off, but it's hard to think about not having cattle around. We've cut back, gone to one calving season this year, and used a clean up bull last year. So we'll see how that works.
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Trust me, it doesn;t work. We've retired and sold out a couple of times, always end up getting into them again. But now we're going to stay hobby size, i.e. less then 50 head, and hopefully half that many.
 
Well we just about have completed a downsizing.

My partner died last year and he owned most of the land and cows.

I have been running things since and decided in the late spring that we were going to downsize. ended up selling all but a couple of my old pet cows. gone from 60 head to 3 head.

So I transitioned from business to hobby and I am enjoying life a bit more. I work a full time day job and the cows consumed the rest of my life.

sold the last partnership bull yesterday. Have one more of his cows to sell and the deed will be done.

Just this morning I picked up a used travel trailer and the wife and I are going to do something we have never done......go on a vacation.....not going til warmer weather though.
 

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