Hello from Deep East Texas

[Stonewall Joe]

I've gotten soft…when we built this house a couple of years ago, we included a good Cummins generator and I'm almost ashamed to say it…a gas fireplace

a generator and a gas fireplace is a great investment if you have power failure anywhere

 

[gman4691]

a generator and a gas fireplace is a great investment if you have power failure anywhere

Yes, sir…I do love a wood burning fireplace but I'm not getting any younger. I can still go out and cut, split, and stack firewood like a wild man so this was more of a preemptive strike…as it were.

 

[Travlr]

Back to blistering winds and blizzard conditions - should only get couple inches of snow - but the wind is brutal on the cattle. Our "ladies in waiting" (pregnants close to calving - right outside my window) do not have any real wind block. So, to say the least, when we go out about NOW - and "sort" which ones looks ready to calve tonight to go in the barn, it's a mad rush for the gate trying to get in the barn. Heifers just follow the crowd, but the cows KNOW the program. If one of our older cows starts going into labor outside, they stand by the gate kinda with their legs crossed holding baby in waiting to get into a pen! LOL The old girls sure know the program. I have 8 that need to go in barn tonight. We need some to start popping - we have a full house!

I always fed late afternoon or at night because it seemed like cattle fed in the morning would calve at night.

 

[Ouachita]

Put out some more cubes today and turned off the water to the troughs today…now to find a movie set in the tropics or maybe desert to try and forget that wind outside

Nah, stick with the program. A good spaghetti western fits well with this weather. Always a wind in the background noise, and someone whistling like they're sitting on the pot.
Don'tchu break tradition!

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

I always fed late afternoon or at night because it seemed like cattle fed in the morning would calve at night.

Lots of research shows if you feed in evening, cows will calve during daytime.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Got 1 born in barn. Blaze face black heifer.
Sorry, we're taking over this newbies thread. You will learn, some of the threads get sidetracked.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Got 1 born in barn. Blaze face black heifer.
Sorry, we're taking over this newbies thread. You will learn, some of the threads get sidetracked.

Well, I spoke too soon. 2 heifer twins!

 

[EasTex]

Well, I spoke too soon. 2 heifer twins!

Oh wow

 

[Brute 23]

Got 1 born in barn. Blaze face black heifer.
Sorry, we're taking over this newbies thread. You will learn, some of the threads get sidetracked.

... some...

 

[Brute 23]

I rolled out enough hay for all the Brahmans to get a belly full this evening and left some whole for them to make it a couple days on the south side of a brush line. When they came to me I noticed one dragging a little. When I rolled the hay out she laid down in pile and was eating at the same time. All the others were on their feet strung out on the line.

My guess is she is about to domino. They aren't bred back to a Brahman so hopefully the F1 calf gets up and rolling.

 

[Ouachita]

Domino? I thought I was the last one still using that. It was in common usage here 40ish years ago. When I use it nowadays, people look at me like I have two heads.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Put out some more cubes today and turned off the water to the troughs today…now to find a movie set in the tropics or maybe desert to try and forget that wind outside

That's the reason I have a feeder that will hold a ton of range meal. Just so I don't have to go out in such events.

 

[crossbreed]

Domino? I thought I was the last one still using that. It was in common usage here 40ish years ago. When I use it nowadays, people look at me like I have two heads.

Ditto! Dad always used it on horses and I've always used it. Just sounds normal to me

 

[greybeard]

Domino? I thought I was the last one still using that. It was in common usage here 40ish years ago. When I use it nowadays, people look at me like I have two heads.

Domino means something completely different to Hereford folks .

 

[gman4691]

Domino? I thought I was the last one still using that. It was in common usage here 40ish years ago. When I use it nowadays, people look at me like I have two heads.

Domino is still in fairly common usage down here…been hearing it all of my life

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Ok. Explain what you are talking about. Domino?

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

So, backtrack to me putting 8 cows close to calving in the barn. I already said first cow had a set of twin heifers. That was at 4pm. By 4am we had 5 of the 8 calved. Another 1 calved later in the day. Woohoo, babies everywhere.

 

[crossbreed]

Ok. Explain what you are talking about. Domino?

Domino is when you're walking out there and you know you need to bring that cow to the barn. She's fixing to domino! Drop that calf

 

[gman4691]

Ok. Explain what you are talking about. Domino?

giving birth = domino

 

[gman4691]

Speaking of that: put out some hay & cubes this evening…several cows are looking like they are "in the family way"…this spring we'll see if this bull is worth what we paid…this will be the first crop of calves from him…here's hoping…should get some idea around March-April…a couple may "domino" in February from the looks of things