SRBeef
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I was walking through my steer group grazing corn, then cows/heifers on hay only, then 2 bulls checking on how they're doing since I've been away for a week or so.
Seems like several of the spring calving cows have got very wide recently. Here is cow #62 from the rear. Hard to believe she is not due to calve until April 4th.
Also a picture of her 2011 steer calf 62Y who has been grazing corn.
Here's also a picture of my cow #2 who looks like she has a bit of Simmi somewhere in her background. I bought her dam as a bred cow several years ago.
She was a smaller, slower growing heifer but has been bred Hereford ever since and had a number of very good calves. A pleasant surprise. Here is her steer calf #2Y from last spring who has been grazing corn but was at the mineralyx barrel when I snapped his picture.
Heifer calf #10 seems to be coming along well.
Since I was going to be away last week, before I left I stacked an extra bale on top of about 1/2 of the previous one in a feed ring. Bull #22 is very playful and somehow between he and bull 70 they manged to topple it off the top and roll it down a slope until it stopped at a tree! They have been having fun with it but aren't getting any more until they this clean up quite a bit!
Here are a couple bull pics on a foggy cloudy early Feb afternoon -
fwiw - Jim
Seems like several of the spring calving cows have got very wide recently. Here is cow #62 from the rear. Hard to believe she is not due to calve until April 4th.
Also a picture of her 2011 steer calf 62Y who has been grazing corn.
Here's also a picture of my cow #2 who looks like she has a bit of Simmi somewhere in her background. I bought her dam as a bred cow several years ago.
She was a smaller, slower growing heifer but has been bred Hereford ever since and had a number of very good calves. A pleasant surprise. Here is her steer calf #2Y from last spring who has been grazing corn but was at the mineralyx barrel when I snapped his picture.
Heifer calf #10 seems to be coming along well.
Since I was going to be away last week, before I left I stacked an extra bale on top of about 1/2 of the previous one in a feed ring. Bull #22 is very playful and somehow between he and bull 70 they manged to topple it off the top and roll it down a slope until it stopped at a tree! They have been having fun with it but aren't getting any more until they this clean up quite a bit!
Here are a couple bull pics on a foggy cloudy early Feb afternoon -
fwiw - Jim