creekdrive
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I finally got a day to just poke around and check some cows. For the last 2 weeks seems like all we did was vaccinate calves and or haul out pairs. Have everything out to their pastures now other than about 30 or so....a dozen or so late calvers yet to go, 7 pairs that were too young to vaccinate (I try to wait till they are a couple weeks old at least before vaccinating and hauling them out), & a few pairs that the cows will be culled this fall so they don't get to go with a bull for the summer. After hardly any snow all winter and no rain at all to start spring we've now had over 6" in the last couple weeks. The grass is growing like crazy now!
I took a bunch of pictures - the only truck I had in the yard to take was the feedbox truck, which doesn't have any grain on it but of course all the cows mob me when I show up in it which makes it hard to get good pictures of them.
First pasture - the home piece, all commercial pairs. Mostly 'problem' cows that raise a really good calf get to stay at home where it's easy to watch them. Known fence crawlers, ones that get nervous when catching them in a corral, really old cows etc... A SimAngus bull will go out with these girls.
heifer calf closest to the camera - that is her dam behind her, a 2nd calver.
calf on the right was very sick a week ago, seems like she's turned around now though and will be alright. Definitely has set her back though.
8 year old SimAngus cow with bull calf
same calf different angle
Next 2 pastures are both Black Angus:
April born heifer closest to the camera. January born heifer & mama behind.
bull calf
10 yr old cow
4 yr old cow. weaned the biggest bull calf last year (785lb, adj 205 day)
1st calf heifer that I can not get a good picture of no matter what. She was standing there perfectly till I went to take the pic. LOVE her depth of body, calved with no problems and is doing a good job so far with her little heifer calf.
2 pastures of Red Angus:
2nd calver with her Mar 1st born bull calf. I thought this calf was sort of ugly when he was born but he is sure growing!
5 year old cow with bull calf.
I think this guy is gonna be a real thick bugger come fall!
heifer calf closest to the camera, out of a 1st calver. Bull calf in the background.
Have another pasture of Red Angus about 40 minutes away. and 2 other pastures with commercial pairs also about 40 minutes away. We try to check everything once a week or so but sometimes it stretches out to a couple weeks depending on what else we have going on.
I do have some pictures of some of the replacement heifers we kept, but I will post them in another thread.
I took a bunch of pictures - the only truck I had in the yard to take was the feedbox truck, which doesn't have any grain on it but of course all the cows mob me when I show up in it which makes it hard to get good pictures of them.
First pasture - the home piece, all commercial pairs. Mostly 'problem' cows that raise a really good calf get to stay at home where it's easy to watch them. Known fence crawlers, ones that get nervous when catching them in a corral, really old cows etc... A SimAngus bull will go out with these girls.
heifer calf closest to the camera - that is her dam behind her, a 2nd calver.
calf on the right was very sick a week ago, seems like she's turned around now though and will be alright. Definitely has set her back though.
8 year old SimAngus cow with bull calf
same calf different angle
Next 2 pastures are both Black Angus:
April born heifer closest to the camera. January born heifer & mama behind.
bull calf
10 yr old cow
4 yr old cow. weaned the biggest bull calf last year (785lb, adj 205 day)
1st calf heifer that I can not get a good picture of no matter what. She was standing there perfectly till I went to take the pic. LOVE her depth of body, calved with no problems and is doing a good job so far with her little heifer calf.
2 pastures of Red Angus:
2nd calver with her Mar 1st born bull calf. I thought this calf was sort of ugly when he was born but he is sure growing!
5 year old cow with bull calf.
I think this guy is gonna be a real thick bugger come fall!
heifer calf closest to the camera, out of a 1st calver. Bull calf in the background.
Have another pasture of Red Angus about 40 minutes away. and 2 other pastures with commercial pairs also about 40 minutes away. We try to check everything once a week or so but sometimes it stretches out to a couple weeks depending on what else we have going on.
I do have some pictures of some of the replacement heifers we kept, but I will post them in another thread.
