waihou
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We think he is pretty good, but as I read in another thread, that may be a disease called Barn blindness!
He was born 4th August, a good weight-48kgs, which I think is around 105lbs, but he was his mothers 12th calf, all of them unassisted, and the first born when she was 23 months old. Note, we weigh and tag calves at birth, with mum present, so temperament is all important!
Since then, on grass and milk alone-oh and a bit of hay, he has been growing at 1.74kgs/day-is that around 3.8lbs?
He weighed 333kgs (734lbs?) the week before the show.
We decided to take him to our local agricultural show on 21st January-so on 27th December brought him in to halter train him and prepare him for a day without Mum! We accustom them to not having access to their mothers except for a drink night and morning, that way they don't get unsettled around lunchtime!
Three and a half weeks later, we took him for a day out!
He was second in his class, All breeds beef bull calf born since 1st June 2011, to a South Devon 2 months older-but his temperament was just great. He's now back with Mum full time until he gets weaned early April.
We hope he has a future-his EBV's are good too, but just thought we would like to share a breed of a different colour from Down Under!
He was born 4th August, a good weight-48kgs, which I think is around 105lbs, but he was his mothers 12th calf, all of them unassisted, and the first born when she was 23 months old. Note, we weigh and tag calves at birth, with mum present, so temperament is all important!
Since then, on grass and milk alone-oh and a bit of hay, he has been growing at 1.74kgs/day-is that around 3.8lbs?
He weighed 333kgs (734lbs?) the week before the show.
We decided to take him to our local agricultural show on 21st January-so on 27th December brought him in to halter train him and prepare him for a day without Mum! We accustom them to not having access to their mothers except for a drink night and morning, that way they don't get unsettled around lunchtime!
Three and a half weeks later, we took him for a day out!
He was second in his class, All breeds beef bull calf born since 1st June 2011, to a South Devon 2 months older-but his temperament was just great. He's now back with Mum full time until he gets weaned early April.
We hope he has a future-his EBV's are good too, but just thought we would like to share a breed of a different colour from Down Under!