Rafter S
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There's a bull picture discussion going, and two of calves, so I thought I'd post some pictures of cows.
Here's an 8-year old cow. As you can see, she has one lame quarter, but she still raises pretty good calves.
This is her current calf, born February 6. You might recognize her as the "self-loader" from another discussion.
Here's her 3-year old daughter. She's a little thin, but I believe she'll fill out.
And here's a cow that I'm afraid I have some emotional attachment to. I had a great-great-uncle (my grandfather's brother) that I thought quite a bit of. He was born in 1899 and died in 1989, and acquired a good bit of land in the area during the Depression, and ran several hundred mama cows. He went along with us working his cattle until the last year or two of his life. Somewhere around 1980 he bought a Longhorn bull to use on heifers. The bull promptly got out and got with some of his mature cows, so my uncle just left him there. The last two years that he was still able to go out with us working cattle he gave me, my father, and two more men that helped each one of those half Longhorn calves. The cow pictured below is the granddaughter of one of the ones he gave me. As far as I know there are no other descendants of any of the others (and I'm the only one of the four men still alive), so I'm going to keep that line going as long as I can. She's 4 years old, and she's 1/2 Angus, 1/4 Brahman, 1/8 Longhorn, and 1/8 who-knows-what (probably Hereford, since that's mostly what my uncle had). She's a 4-year old.
I'll post more later, and feel free to show yours please.
Here's an 8-year old cow. As you can see, she has one lame quarter, but she still raises pretty good calves.
This is her current calf, born February 6. You might recognize her as the "self-loader" from another discussion.
Here's her 3-year old daughter. She's a little thin, but I believe she'll fill out.
And here's a cow that I'm afraid I have some emotional attachment to. I had a great-great-uncle (my grandfather's brother) that I thought quite a bit of. He was born in 1899 and died in 1989, and acquired a good bit of land in the area during the Depression, and ran several hundred mama cows. He went along with us working his cattle until the last year or two of his life. Somewhere around 1980 he bought a Longhorn bull to use on heifers. The bull promptly got out and got with some of his mature cows, so my uncle just left him there. The last two years that he was still able to go out with us working cattle he gave me, my father, and two more men that helped each one of those half Longhorn calves. The cow pictured below is the granddaughter of one of the ones he gave me. As far as I know there are no other descendants of any of the others (and I'm the only one of the four men still alive), so I'm going to keep that line going as long as I can. She's 4 years old, and she's 1/2 Angus, 1/4 Brahman, 1/8 Longhorn, and 1/8 who-knows-what (probably Hereford, since that's mostly what my uncle had). She's a 4-year old.
I'll post more later, and feel free to show yours please.
