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Lost my first two calves last year out of first calf heifers. More my fault than theirs, waited too long to help them; couldn't get a vet to come and should of called a friend to help me. An expensive lesson ! Now to this year. Both these girls dropped calves this week unassisted. The first one has been giving me a lot of sleepless night b/c she is way to fat. Nothing but grass but she may be the fattest cow I've ever seen. Nice bull out of her and an even better heifer calf out of the other cow. Both moved up a month and on another note both calved a day apart last year and 2 days apart this year.Glad we gave them a second chance ! :D
 
Isn't it wonderful when it works this way. Times like this is why we keep doing this.
CSM
 
Want to compare pictures of fat cows which were dry last year? I have a four year old, raised a great calf first time, slipped the second. Kept her because she's one of a few from a particular bull. I presume she'll do it all easily this time, but I do worry a bit about her. Grass only, like you, and not a lot of it over most of this winter.
 
Go on then, lets see her , I've got a fat one too!
Her calf died 24 hours after birth in 2014 (got caught up in the barn) She weighed 858kgs on 7th March (1891lbs) Calved a 49kg bull on 17th July. He's head and shoulders above the other calves now!
 
waihou":3zau28vi said:
Go on then, lets see her , I've got a fat one too!
Her calf died 24 hours after birth in 2014 (got caught up in the barn) She weighed 858kgs on 7th March (1891lbs) Calved a 49kg bull on 17th July. He's head and shoulders above the other calves now!
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I get the feeling I'm going to lose this one. :lol:
 
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waihou.. that is one heavy cow, probably about at heavy as my heaviest, but some of mine at that weight weren't fat, they were just giants. I don't know how the birthweight of the calf is compared to your heaviest, but my heaviests were 64kg (I've had a whole bunch of them at that weight, all unassisted).. they do tend to keep their head start too.
 
Got 3 pics on my phone of her but I'm old and not tech savvy , if someone will post them I will text them the pics.
 
Yes Nesikep, quite a big cow but not the heaviest, she is very deep in the body, but it was the amount of fat/condition she carried that concerned me, having not fed a calf for 12 months. She was 6 days over her due date from AI to a high birthweight bull we chose for his carcase features. Fifty kgs is about the limit for our breed calves, though I have heard of some at 54kgs. We usually average around 39kgs, which is around 86lbs.
A Charolais breeder told me last week of getting 60kg twins from one of their cows!
When I saw the size of the feet, and knowing she was late we tied a bit of rope on and helped him out, didn't want to lose him after all the planning! This is before he had stood, which he did within 20 minutes of birth.
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Coachg that is really pleasing to get two good calves from the cows which lost their calves last year. Always a depressing feeling to start of the calving season with a loss, even worse for two losses!
 
Yes Putangitangi, she is certainly very well covered for a grass only fed girl in your environment-when is she due? :D
 
I lost one of a pair of twins a few years back.. first one was a 50kg bull so I didn't check for a second one.. next day the cow was looking off so I went and inspected.. yep, breech birth, all tangled up in there.. another 50 kg bull calf.. At least she had one! She and her full sister were my 2 biggest cows, probably around 800kg/1900 lbs. The sister also had a set of twins, but they were considerably smaller, and she took good care of both of them. (Nelly, in the 'front pasture cows' thead)

The cow that always made the huge calves did it between checkups many times on my, but I did catch her once in the act.. from the time the nose came out it wasn't 5 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwcnbPEmnRs
 
Waihou, my Fatima isn't due until early November. She and the other dry one from last year are both really late for some reason. They'd better buck their ideas up for next year, or they'll be off!
 
Congrats on your new calves! We have a fatty named Steamroller - because on the rare occasion another cow starts something with her she will flatten them - in slow motion. It's hysterical to watch :) She's as wide as she is tall, clocks in at 1900 lbs & a prolific breeder. And BTW, my husband is from Pisgah. Small world.
 
coachg":2q25a5jk said:
TCRanch, he wouldn't be a Cooley would he ?
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Lester, Patterson, Callaham, Benefield, House, Keith - and there's probably a lot more extended family that used to or still lives there. He hasn't been back to the mountain for a while & I haven't been since we moved to the ranch (because cattle don't recognize weekends or holidays). Beautiful scenery out there!
 

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