Granny through the years

[dun]

 

[Stocker Steve]

I don't see any ribs, and you say she has no teeth left, so she must be a very easy keeper?

 

[dun]

I don't see any ribs, and you say she has no teeth left, so she must be a very easy keeper?

This is from 5 years ago and on back. She didn;t lose her teeth till 2 years ago.

 

[3waycross]

Geeeeez Dun you could create a whole new BCS for that cow.

 

[Anonymous]

Impressive. Is that on just grass and hay or is there suppliments involved?

 

[Isomade]

Granny is deep.

 

[3waycross]

Impressive. Is that on just grass and hay or is there suppliments involved?

Mashed potatos and gravy by the looks of her!

 

[Anonymous]

Lots and lots of bacon and eggs!

 

[dun]

Just grass and hay during the winter. That deep wide body is waht I've always liked abuot her. That's why the calf looks small compared to her. She's about a FS 5.5 and in her prime weighed 1450 pounds, now she's down to about 1050. Back then she weaned the top 1 or 2 calves every year. The heifer from last year and the one that just calved for the first time a week or so ago are built like she was even though the older one is half Fleckvieh and the heifer is half Red Angus

 

[Workinonit Farm]

Do you know Granny's family lineage?

I wonder, for those of us/anyone else who have had very long-lived productive cows, what the family lines are.....if known. I know with the grandma cow I had, I had no idea of who her sire and dam were other than what breeds they were. I have 3 of her daughters in the herd.

One other older cow I had, she was about 16 or 17 when I sold her, she was a Black Angus born and raised on the Fram where I worked, but she nor her 'perents' were registered, so I don't know her lines. I do have one of her daughters(through AI) whose sire I know.

Just curious wonderings.

Katherine

 

[dun]

Do you know Granny's family lineage?

No. We're assuming black Angus but her registry tattos have been blotted over. Oh yeah, she's a cull from the salebarn, 15 years ago!

 

[MO_cows]

Wow, I have never seen a cow as fat as her in a couple of those pics.

As remarkable a cow as she has been, I would be willing to "slop" her with soaked alfalfa pellets, beet pulp, bran mash, whatever it takes to get nutrition into her without teeth.

A real shame that her genetics are a mystery. Looks like her udder has held up great, too.

 

[Stocker Steve]

Just grass and hay during the winter. That deep wide body is waht I've always liked abuot her. That's why the calf looks small compared to her. She's about a FS 5.5 and in her prime weighed 1450 pounds, now she's down to about 1050. Back then she weaned the top 1 or 2 calves every year. The heifer from last year and the one that just calved for the first time a week or so ago are built like she was even though the older one is half Fleckvieh and the heifer is half Red Angus

Have you kept any bulls out of her?

 

[dun]

Just grass and hay during the winter. That deep wide body is waht I've always liked abuot her. That's why the calf looks small compared to her. She's about a FS 5.5 and in her prime weighed 1450 pounds, now she's down to about 1050. Back then she weaned the top 1 or 2 calves every year. The heifer from last year and the one that just calved for the first time a week or so ago are built like she was even though the older one is half Fleckvieh and the heifer is half Red Angus

Have you kept any bulls out of her?

Nope, never bred her to a black Angus. Until the last 2 from the cleanup bull she's either been bred to a Polled Hereford or a Fleckvieh

 

[dun]

Wow, I have never seen a cow as fat as her in a couple of those pics.

As remarkable a cow as she has been, I would be willing to "slop" her with soaked alfalfa pellets, beet pulp, bran mash, whatever it takes to get nutrition into her without teeth.

A real shame that her genetics are a mystery. Looks like her udder has held up great, too.

Her udder had started breaking down when we got her, maybe that's why she was culled. Today her udder looks exactly like it did then except this year not as much milk.

 

[bigbull338]

old granny is a fine looking old cow.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Granny's worth a little extra pampering.
I lucked out, our oldest cow was a heifer producer. Gave us 12 heifers out of 17 (went anestrous at age 18). We have 16 decendents - breeding age - still in the herd and have sold LOTS of her genetics.

 

[Kathie in Thorp]

Dun, I've told you my co-worker's old cow . . . . Last night, the old girl didn't come up at feeding time; usually she's the first one to the hay rack. So, Ken went out looking and found her dead in the pasture. Probably just old age (24-25 this year), and they are actually relieved that they were spared having to put her down in the future. And, yes, she was pregnant.

 

[dun]

Dun, I've told you my co-worker's old cow . . . . Last night, the old girl didn't come up at feeding time; usually she's the first one to the hay rack. So, Ken went out looking and found her dead in the pasture. Probably just old age (24-25 this year), and they are actually relieved that they were spared having to put her down in the future. And, yes, she was pregnant.

That sucks, but it's easier then having to make the final decision

 

[leigh12354]

Sorry to hear about the old cow, wow a looong life though. Has granny gained any weight back yet? Did the alfalfa hay,beet pulp do any good??