Got a new camera...cow family pictures

[showing71]

I got a new camera and a couple of lenses for my birthday, so I went and tested it out on the cows. I ended up taking some pictures of cow families, not realizing it at the time.
Angus Cow Family
11 year old cow

Her daughter

Granddaughter

Great-Granddaughter (out of cow above)

Tarentaise Cow Family
9 year old cow

Son

Granddaughter

Granddaughter

Great-grandson

5 year old Red Angus Cow

Daughter

And some others
Red Angus cow

Red Angus Bred heifer

 

[JeffMills517]

Thanks for posting this. I enjoyed viewing!

 

[Isomade]

Nice cattle, that 710 cow has so much length you have to look from one side of the screen to the other to see all of her.

 

[Baldie Maker]

really like the depth of rib and length of your cattle

 

[djinwa]

Nice pics and cattle. I've recently come to appreciate the value of a good camera in improving images. I think alot of pictures posted on here are close up snapshots which are distorted. Probably a zoom lens from further away is better.

Now you just need to ask the cows to all pull back their leg to expose their udders.

The udders I see look good except the sloppy 9 year old, but perhaps with age it's forgivable?

 

[MO_cows]

Good pics, good looking cattle. I wouldn't call that udder sloppy. She still has good front attachment and tight little teats. DJ, I think if you saw it full you might have a different opinion.

 

[showing71]

Nice pics and cattle. I've recently come to appreciate the value of a good camera in improving images. I think alot of pictures posted on here are close up snapshots which are distorted. Probably a zoom lens from further away is better.

Now you just need to ask the cows to all pull back their leg to expose their udders.

The udders I see look good except the sloppy 9 year old, but perhaps with age it's forgivable?

No one wanted to stand the best that day. I took them right after weaning, so the cows weren't super cooperative, and of course I couldn't get anyone to come out and help me. The 9 year old has been the biggest pain to get a good picture of, she always wants to face the camera. Here's one that shows her udder better, but its not that great of her. She doesn't have a perfect udder, but all of her offspring have had ideal udders.

 

[Santas and Duhram Reds]

710 is my favorite!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DOC HARRIS]

You have a great selection of good cattle! Their phenotype, as a general herd run, is much better tha most herds! Good level top line, udders, hindquarters and thickness! With a little concentrating on camera angle and lens height above the ground, you can get some fine pics.

DOC HARRIS

 

[ALACOWMAN]

real nice herd you got there...

 

[djinwa]

Not to pick on anything, but if that's a good udder attachment, perhaps I've read this chart wrong.
So just for fun and my education, how would you score the udder attachment on that cow?
BTW, the number on the drawing is not the score.

I'd give her about 4 points - between drawing 3 and 4.

 

[MO_cows]

I would give her a 6, she's between drawing 2 and 3. Her udder isn't as tight as 2 but her teats were still nice and small. How old was she again, 9? She's not gonna live long enough for her teats to blow out like drawing 5. It's a good udder because of how well it has held up.

 

[hillsdown]

I would give her a 6, she's between drawing 2 and 3. Her udder isn't as tight as 2 but her teats were still nice and small. How old was she again, 9? She's not gonna live long enough for her teats to blow out like drawing 5. It's a good udder because of how well it has held up.

I agree .

Nice group Showing ! I like them all ,you have a really nice looking set of cattle ..

Happy belated birthday :tiphat:

 

[djinwa]

I would give her a 6, she's between drawing 2 and 3. Her udder isn't as tight as 2 but her teats were still nice and small. How old was she again, 9? She's not gonna live long enough for her teats to blow out like drawing 5. It's a good udder because of how well it has held up.

I was not considering the teat size, as that is scored separately from udder suspension. I was looking at the angle of attachment in the front. Many of the other females in photos above have great attachments – almost horizontal.

http://beef.unl.edu/learning/udder_score.shtml

The ideal time to udder score beef cows is within the first 24 to 48 hours after calving as she begins to freshen. Udder conformation will decline as the female ages, but do not take age into account when assigning an udder score. The following udder scoring system was developed by the Beef Improvement Federation. This scoring system categorizes udder suspension and teat size. A score of 9 (very tight, highly desirable) to 1 (pendulous, not desirable) for udder suspension and a score of 9 (very small) to 1 (very large) for teat size.

Teat scoring:

 

[RD-Sam]

That bred heifer is the one that stood out in the bunch to me, nice group.

 

[MO_cows]

I would give her a 6, she's between drawing 2 and 3. Her udder isn't as tight as 2 but her teats were still nice and small. How old was she again, 9? She's not gonna live long enough for her teats to blow out like drawing 5. It's a good udder because of how well it has held up.

I was not considering the teat size, as that is scored separately from udder suspension. I was looking at the angle of attachment in the front. Many of the other females in photos above have great attachments – almost horizontal.

http://beef.unl.edu/learning/udder_score.shtml

The ideal time to udder score beef cows is within the first 24 to 48 hours after calving as she begins to freshen. Udder conformation will decline as the female ages, but do not take age into account when assigning an udder score. The following udder scoring system was developed by the Beef Improvement Federation. This scoring system categorizes udder suspension and teat size. A score of 9 (very tight, highly desirable) to 1 (pendulous, not desirable) for udder suspension and a score of 9 (very small) to 1 (very large) for teat size.

Teat scoring:

Thanks for looking up the info, but the proof is in the production. That cow is still in the herd at 9 years old with a perfectly functional udder and the animals pictured from her line were all good. Especially the 710 heifer. You can put whatever number you want to on that udder, it is gettin the job done - year after year. Maybe a better measure would be dollar signs.

 

[Mid South Guy]

You can put whatever number you want to on that udder, it is gettin the job done - year after year. Maybe a better measure would be dollar signs.

Agreed!! -- I'm of the opinion if she can produce a live calf that can get up and easily nurse on its own with no difficulty and wean off with a performance equal to its pasture mates, then I don't really care what udder score she has or what it looks like.

 

[showing71]

djinwa- I'd give her a 5 on the udder (since I can see her in person). She has never shown any problems with it, other than it's kind of ugly. Her calves have all been able to suck easily, and she produces a lot of milk. Her bull calf (the one pictured) from this year weaned off at 700lbs. She has never passed her udder condition on to her calves, 710 has weaned her 3rd calf this year and her udder looks great in my opinion (the other females out of this cow have similar udders to 710). We put a lot of emphasis on udder quality, but like I said previously, since she hasn't passed it on and I'm not having problems with calves not being able to suck, I'm not super concerned with it.

HD- Thanks for the b-day wishes!

Sam- That heifer is slated to take out to Denver for the NWSS. I'll hopefully get pictures of them shortly. She's a big, soggy made, thick heifer that has a bit of 'flash' to her. I wasn't super impressed with her originally - I liked her full sister that's a year older better, but she's really come on in the last few weeks. We'll have 11 full siblings of her's hit the ground in February (ET calves) so it will be interesting to see how those turn out.

Thanks for the comments everyone! I thought it'd be interesting to share these since I *accidentally* took pictures of families. Does anyone have opinions on the Angus? I know they're not perfect, but does anyone see any huge problems with them? :tiphat:

 

[VCC]

Showing71, I can’t think of any one who would keep a cow like 212 around for 11 years. She passes on traits like deep sided, long bodied, clean fronted, easy keeping, and balance as well as I’d say, pretty, to her daughters. Who would want those traits in a cow?
I’d take all 4 generations in a heart beat.

They are all nice cows, and you must be making the right breeding decisions as well.

 

[Chuckie]

I absolutely love those Anguse cows you show at the first of the pictures. They are beautiful and just keep passing it down generation after generation. The other cattle you have are very nice as well.

Chuckie