Four for Four

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Can't believe it. First 4 calves for fall - all embryos (conventional - not sexed) - all heifers!!! Two red white face, 1 black white face and this newborn, solid red. Four still due for Sept, and two due latter part of October.
Wanted to show you how we sort/catch our cattle. Phil, nephew, carries the polywire reel and I hold the other end. We wonder thru the cattle, picking it up over some and just walk what we need into our working lot/facility.


That white line is our moving polywire, not a fence.


All done! Tagged, naval dipped, A&D, Multimin, Inforce 3 and weighed. 4 days late, 102#

 

[LocustDaleCattleCompany]

Very cool! I'm having a heifer Fall thus far as well.

 

[holm25]

Can't believe it. First 4 calves for fall - all embryos (conventional - not sexed) - all heifers!!! Two red white face, 1 black white face and this newborn, solid red. Four still due for Sept, and two due latter part of October.
Wanted to show you how we sort/catch our cattle. Phil, nephew, carries the polywire reel and I hold the other end. We wonder thru the cattle, picking it up over some and just walk what we need into our working lot/facility.


That white line is our moving polywire, not a fence.


All done! Tagged, naval dipped, A&D, Multimin, Inforce 3 and weighed. 4 days late, 102#

Beautiful cow and calf. Needs a littl udder work though :)

 

[Franke]

Nice weather and that’s lucky so far with the heifers. :clap:

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

holm25 - thanks - but, yes udder is not the best - that is why she is a recipient (embryo calf). Her two front quarters get elongated like that, but go right down to a normal udder. But, not something I want propagated in my herd.

 

[Bright Raven]

Good on the heifers. Great of the method. I like that, but would not work if only one person is available.


I am waiting on calf #10. Looking like it may go over. Due today. Hate for mine to go over.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Ron, when I was alone during the day, I used the polywire, but I would have to catch the cattle in our holding lot, then I would tie the wire off to a "non-heated" source and weave in & out & get 1 caught by myself, like for breeding.
Or, if I needed to persuade the whole herd to go into our work facilities, I would also tie off close to the gate they needed to go thru & work them in by myself. But, two people is awesome.

 

[jd720]

That`s great getting the heifers out of embryo`s like that especially conventional. If they were sexed you`d have been really lucky to get any to stick.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

That`s great getting the heifers out of embryo`s like that especially conventional. If they were sexed you`d have been really lucky to get any to stick.

Totally agree. I purchased 3 embryo's & put all 3 in. Got 2 pregnancies. Put 3 of my own in, got 2 pregnancies - and they all ended up girls. :banana:

 

[BFE]

Everything looks good, especially the pasture in the last picture. Do you have that much clover everywhere?

 

[Dixie2542]

Congrats to you both! - I'm hoping we are as lucky next yr...we are planning to put some in next month. All conv.

 

[gizmom]

Congratulations! 4 for 4 on conventional flush is exceptional, now since you said it out loud I hope it didn’t insure that the next four will be bulls. Cool way to move the cattle.

Gizmom

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

I always hate to "brag" out loud. Karma is a B. Having said that though, I am finished with embryos. I have a very exciting one due Monday. 3T Trinity, a Miss Power Lass (donor) direct daughter that is "huge-er" than her dam.
This was a pic as a 2 yr old. She is carrying a Classified calf.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

BFE - yes, clover grows native out here.

Here is the old girl now at almost 12 years old:

 

[Franke]

Big ole girl.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Big ole girl.

Yup - with big ole FEET. She has great legs & feet. Udder isn't beautiful - but extremely functional. Stronger rear quarters than front ones.

 

[Franke]

Gotta love the ones you don’t have to worry about with feet problems!

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Gotta love the ones you don’t have to worry about with feet problems!

I don't put up with bad feet for long. If they are getting around OK, I put embryos in bad footed cows.