High Tail Bone w/pictures

[inyati13]

Here is the heifer I referenced in my previous thread. Hope Jeanne gets a chance to take a look at the Simangus cow I also photographed today. Anyway, what comments do you have on the high tail bone. She is a two year old due to calf in late January. As I noted in the previous thread, someone told me a high tail bone could be an indicator of calving problems.

It was a frosty morn!!!

 

[Isomade]

Need the pics enlarged.

 

[inyati13]

How do I get the pics enlarged?

 

[Isomade]

How do I get the pics enlarged?

Make em bigger than they are.

 

[3waycross]

How do I get the pics enlarged?

Where do you have them stored. Photobucket or Ranchers. I looked for them on ranchers. If you can just post the link and one of us will blow em up for you

 

[inyati13]

http://ranchers.net/photopost/data/500/ ... 12_004.JPG
http://ranchers.net/photopost/data/500/ ... 12_009.JPG
http://ranchers.net/photopost/data/500/ ... 12_013.JPG

 

[inyati13]

3waycross, tell me how to put the photos in the correct dimensions and I will do that in the future. Thanks.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

I'm assuming the first pic is the high tail head heifer. That is NOT very extreme. I would not worry about that at all.
Is the 3rd pic HPF 1/2 blood? looks good based on these small pics.
Who is the heifer bred to?

 

[chippie]

here are the pics

I use http://www.tinypic.com to host the photos. It is easy to use and will give you the code for posting in the forum.

 

[KNERSIE]

They're fine, don't see a problem there at all.

 

[3waycross]

3waycross, tell me how to put the photos in the correct dimensions and I will do that in the future. Thanks.

I think all you are doing wrong is not highlighting each picture before you copy it to CT. If you move it small it stays small!

 

[chippie]

If the link code has the word "thumbs" in it, the pic will be tiny (I put spaces in the code so that it would show)

http: //ranchers.net/photopost/data/500/thumbs/Cattle-11-28-12_004. JPG

Sometimes the photos need to be resized to 880 x 600 (large) or 640 x 480 (the size that I posted). The default size on many cameras is a bit large to post online. If you do not have a program to resize, many photo hosting sites like http://www.tinypic.com have tools to resize the photo when you upload it.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

HaHa - I didn't notice in the little pic - she's a skunk tail!!! Does her white go up over her back - like Pinzgaur? Cool color.
I do love color - just don't breed for it because my PB's are discriminated if too much white. Although, some of the top blaze face bulls are putting out a lot of white on bellie & some on feet. I don't care if they are purple and polka dotted - just so they are GOOD!

 

[inyati13]

Jeanne, I like that too. It goes half way up her back in a narrow streak. The bottom picture is that registered Simangus cow I talked about in the first thread about the high hip bone. I identified in that thread who she was bred to. Her calf was born on 10/24/12. It was a bull and I banded him as I don't sell breeding stock. I bought her as a commercial cow. She has not come back in. She should come in about the 4th of December. She is with my Angus bull now. Back to the skunk tail. I just hope she does well with her first calf due the end of January. I think I will put her in the cattle handing facility when I think she is about to deliver. I have only had her about a month but she has a good disposition.

 

[inyati13]

Jeanne, the Simangus cow in the bottom picture was bred to HPF On Demand X952. The calf was a bull so I banded him. He is solid black with blue shadows around his iris. I was praying for a heifer. No doubt you know the HPF as it is in your state. I have another HPF/Rocking P Simangus Cow that was also bred to HPF On Demand X952. Her calf was borh 9/28/12 and is milk chocolate with white back feet and white sheath. I also banded him but really regret that. He is beautiful. The most unusual color! I will try to post a picture.

 

[inyati13]

Again

 

[chippie]

He is pretty. We have had some Angus/Braunvieh crosses colored like that. They ended up black after they shed the baby hair.

You have some very nice looking cattle.

ETA: Your cow with the high tail bone is not what I pictured. I've seen some that are much worse than yours.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Yes, I know HPF - and so does every Simm breeder in the US :lol: Actually, they co-op flush my cows. They have one there now. This is the 3rd year they took her. They flush every 60 days - 5 times, then breed her, & then she comes home & has a natural calf the next year. We have some JF Milestone embryos & natural calves on the ground (a HPF AI bull) - born this Sept. Got 5 or so coming in Jan/Feb.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

We get lots of calves colored like that. Chippie is correct - it will be solid black.
Our donor cow that's at HPF is turning 13 yrs old.

 

[inyati13]

Jeanne, I just got started two years ago after retiring from civil service. Now I am doing honest work. Ha Ha. So if I had not bought a cow bred to a HPF bull I would not know who they are. I bet you also know the Rocking P Livestock people, Chan and Keith Phillips. I met Keith Phillips about 2 years ago when I got started. What I like is how docile the cows are that I have gotten from them. They are my children. Like you say, they start out with that milk chocolate color and get darker. But I have a three year old cow that will have her second calf in early March that is still chocolate colored. She is so sweet I would mourn for the rest of my life if something happened to her.