Fall pics

[lithuanian farmer]

Here are some photos of last year borned bulls. Sire is homebred crossbred bull.

An orphan bull. His dam died when he was three days old.

Some of this year borned calves:

An orphan heifer. Dam died when she was one month old.

6 months old Angusx bull calf with Angusx dam, 1st calver.

Limousinex 5 months old bull caf with his dam, 1st calver.

Limousinex 4 months old heifer with Limousinex dam.

6 months od Charx heifer with BBx dam.

2 days old Limousinex heifer with Angusx dam.

And a photo of our BBxdairy cow, which is due to calve on 21st of November. Expecting for a nice calf.

 

[inyati13]

Sam, thanks for the pictures. Your cattle are gorgeous!

 

[dryfork2]

Nice pics looks like your herd is growing.

 

[slick4591]

Nice!

 

[HDRider]

Nice looking cattle. Are your beef prices at all time highs like here in the US?

 

[MO_cows]

You did a great job with the orphans, they look great.

How close are those yearling bulls to becoming beef? Will they get processed right off pasture?

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Nice looking cattle. Are your beef prices at all time highs like here in the US?

Thanks. Beef prices here are lower than it used to be here. Only hope to get better price as have not one or two bulls.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

You did a great job with the orphans, they look great.

How close are those yearling bulls to becoming beef? Will they get processed right off pasture?

Thanks, but I think that those orphans did a great job as we haven't helped them much. Helped only for the bull for a couple days. But both orphans wanted to live and were smart.
Age of bulls is from 14 to 19 months. Will sell them to the meat factory this month. Have enought of grass so boys will be sold straight from the field.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Nice pics looks like your herd is growing.

Thank you. When I've registered to the CT we'd 18 cows. Now we've 27 and have seven more pregnant heifers due to calve in December-February and also will try to leave 9 heifers for breeding for the next year. Going to increase the herd to the 50 cows and then will look what to do.

 

[Nesikep]

sounds like you had some bad luck with the dams dying, but the orphans (and the others) look nice. We had a really hard time getting from 12-15 cows up to 20, and from there it got a lot easier, Now I keep 3 or so replacements a year and have to do a bit of culling to make sure I have food for them, I'm going to have (hopefully) 27 calves next spring, and I think I can only maintain about 25 cows.

Always like seeing your pictures

 

[ALACOWMAN]

Looks good...

 

[lithuanian farmer]

sounds like you had some bad luck with the dams dying, but the orphans (and the others) look nice. We had a really hard time getting from 12-15 cows up to 20, and from there it got a lot easier, Now I keep 3 or so replacements a year and have to do a bit of culling to make sure I have food for them, I'm going to have (hopefully) 27 calves next spring, and I think I can only maintain about 25 cows.

Always like seeing your pictures

Yeah, it was hard to loose those cows. Two died last year and one this year. We'd some hard time in increasing the herd too. First needed to buy cows and, as here beef cattle wasn't very common, we found it hard to find quite good and near. And when we'd already our first cows they used to have almost just bulls, or heifers were very very bad or some of the health issues with them. But luckily now have enough of heifers. Have plans to leave all or most of our limousine bull's daughters and form a new herd from them. Going to buy another limousine bull for them as we found our bull too good to be sold so quickly as next summer would be the last for him in our farm, if we'd left his daughters not separated in another herd. Also have some plans for the future to buy ~10 pure limousine heifers and breed pure limos, because that here pure cattle get better price in a meat factory than the crossbred ones.

 

[Nesikep]

Last year I lost 3 of my best cows, 2 were unexpected (1 had a stroke, the other heat stroke/dehydration), and the other was just getting too old (18)

Our last Gelbvieh bull was one of those bulls you don't like to let go of, I have a good bunch of daughters from him at least.

 

[Williamsv]

Your cattle look great! Enjoyed seeing them. Thanks for sharing those good pictures.

 

[Workinonit Farm]

Those are some really nice, solid looking animals you have there.

 

[WalnutCrest]

Nice cattle. Nice pictures. Nice stories.

Thanks for sharing!

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Last year I lost 3 of my best cows, 2 were unexpected (1 had a stroke, the other heat stroke/dehydration), and the other was just getting too old (18)

Our last Gelbvieh bull was one of those bulls you don't like to let go of, I have a good bunch of daughters from him at least.

The two we lost last year were mother and daughter. The daughter was only 3rd calver. The dam died because of paralysis, the daughter because of inner damage during calving. This year cow died because of displaced abomasum. Have one daughter of each cow, but it's pitty that they died so early.
One our crossbred bull we've used in the herd was very good bull and luckily he has left some good daughters, but I'd like that we'd used him for more seasons.