well, she's the granddaughter of "the ugliest cow Randaliana has ever seen", a few faults are to be expected still!.. Though I do value good posture, etc, I'm getting really tired of dealing with cows with bad udders, bad attitudes, bad hooves, prolapses, and fencebusters.. this one doesn't have any of those problems at least... her mother has had retained placenta a couple times, hope she doesn't.
While i was doing data entry from the hardcopy herd books to computer, I found that the longer the cow lived, the less offspring we kept from her... Josie (this one's grandmother) we kept 2, and we have 2 granddaughters, for a total of 4, and she lived to have 14 calves.. Another cow, Lucy, we only kept one from, and in other threads you will see Maddy, which is her great grand daughter, well Lucy lived to have 16 calves... (both of these cows were completely trouble free). Instead, we have kept a total of 25 direct and indirect offspring from 2 other cows who only lived to 5 and 8 respectively, and have had to do much too much culling for hooves, udders and prolapse problems... I think it's a high price to pay for an extra 50-100 lbs of calf at the end of a season... Gah.. I'm ranting.. sorry