As per Dylan Biggs' request
Registered cows on veld. The veld is very acidic and is mostly brush, except for Aug, Sept, Oct and part of November when there is supposed to be grass if it rained that winter.
It doesn't matter who you are all the cattle gets equal treatment, heifers, first calvers and mature cows graze together, the better cows just seem to handle the conditions better like the two below. Incidently both bull calves was used in the herd, the first one is still here.
Same bull calf as a 21 month old bull
Good average cow with a weaning age heifer
First calver in 2007 when the veld was good, this calf is the same heifer on the other thread
Replacement heifer, paternal halfsib to all three heifers on the other thread, never seen grain or even hay in her life, did have access to straw last winter untill I ran out after the fire
Two more halfsibs, one a 21 month old heifer and the other a first calver, as you can see there is irrigation, but if it doesn't rain there isn't underground water to irrigate with. Hopefully I'll have some oats there his winter. The heifer was shown in February, but her 2 months of luxury is something of the past and she'll have to work like the rest.
I try to calf on pasture, but it doesn't always work out like planned, the last time it happened was in 2008
Weaning time, I try to have decent grazing for the weaned bull calves, but that is even more of a hit and miss than having pasture at calving time. These are the same two cows pictured above just to illustrate that they ran with the rest on veld even though I had plans of keeping the bull calves as herd sires.
Registered cows on veld. The veld is very acidic and is mostly brush, except for Aug, Sept, Oct and part of November when there is supposed to be grass if it rained that winter.
It doesn't matter who you are all the cattle gets equal treatment, heifers, first calvers and mature cows graze together, the better cows just seem to handle the conditions better like the two below. Incidently both bull calves was used in the herd, the first one is still here.
Same bull calf as a 21 month old bull
Good average cow with a weaning age heifer
First calver in 2007 when the veld was good, this calf is the same heifer on the other thread
Replacement heifer, paternal halfsib to all three heifers on the other thread, never seen grain or even hay in her life, did have access to straw last winter untill I ran out after the fire
Two more halfsibs, one a 21 month old heifer and the other a first calver, as you can see there is irrigation, but if it doesn't rain there isn't underground water to irrigate with. Hopefully I'll have some oats there his winter. The heifer was shown in February, but her 2 months of luxury is something of the past and she'll have to work like the rest.
I try to calf on pasture, but it doesn't always work out like planned, the last time it happened was in 2008
Weaning time, I try to have decent grazing for the weaned bull calves, but that is even more of a hit and miss than having pasture at calving time. These are the same two cows pictured above just to illustrate that they ran with the rest on veld even though I had plans of keeping the bull calves as herd sires.
