Goldy

[FlyingLSimmentals]

with her new baby bull. She's a 14 year old. She's got a bad front leg that occurred after her first calf. Don't know how she hurt it maybe a ground hog hole or low spot in the creek or accident with the bull trying to breed her or a fight. We decided to keep her and she has held her own and kept up with the herd and calved every year. Between her age the injury and just coming out of Winter been worried about her. Debated on letting her go with the high prices but thought she was carrying a calf. Got her up to watch closer away from herd to see if she made more signs of showing or possibly to get ready and ship her. Was a little concerned that she might have aborted or lost calf. Well she didn't and I found this little guy with her one morning so I got her up in the pen and feeding her good square bale hay and feed to make more milk and get stronger. Plus she's earned it.

 

[coachg]

There's a place for cows like her on a farm . Decision is to let her live out her days on the farm or get what you can out of her . Lost one in February waiting on green grass and adding some weight before she rode to the sale barn .

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

I have a 14 year old pet jersey. She was my first dairy cow, born in 2011. All her calves were half angus because those were the bulls we had on the ranch. Her first black steer calf brought over $1000 when cattle prices were good. Every calf since was screebier and screebier, showing more and more dairy character. I had always wished to get a Jersey daughter out of her to carry on the line but this was not to be. Then we moved to a dairy area in Oregon and there is the miracle of sex selected Jersey semen AI. By some miracle after 2 years barren she stuck and produced this purebred Jersey heifer calf I am raising on a bottle. She has a staph a history which can spread to calves and never be cured so I bottle feed her on milk replacer.


Daphne in 2012



Daphne is 2025


Daphne was showing more and more signs of arthritis in the right hind leg, stepping short and slowly. I put her on Meloxicam pain medicine for cows, 30 pills a day in her grain and removed her from dominant cows that would beat her up. This was a high risk pregnancy. I prayed to God thy will be done if I had her bred AI. 20 days ago she gave me this miracle calf. She will never be put on a truck. When se is suffering too much even with medicine I will have her shot in the head while happily eating sweet feed.