long lady

[glacierridge]

This was my first animal I purchased.
She sure as he!! looked a lot flashier as a yearling when I got her...

But all in all, I don't think she's the worst critter out there.
I don't like the dip behind her shoulders and her weak pasterns, but I like that she's an excellent mother. She's expecting her third any day and she will first be three in August. I feel like her first pregnancy with twins while she was still growing and developing herself, didn't help those weak points on her at all. They were pretty good sized calves for her, about 50-55 each.

What are everyone else's thoughts?

 

[randiliana]

I think she's a pretty decent looking cow. I don't see her pasterns as weak, and she isn't too bad behind the shoulders either.

 

[chippie]

She's nice glaceridge. Her pasterns look fine and the dip behind her shoulders isn't that noticeable. Many cows have a little dip like that.

 

[inyati13]

I like her, Anne. As the first one you owned, that makes her special. And I wish every cow could have an owner as wonderful as you.

 

[glacierridge]

Aww thanks for the comments.
Two summers ago I got her right before the price went up, got her for $700 as an open yearling.

I think I did very well to buy her when I did.

 

[inyati13]

You did well. You would pay about $1600 to $1800 here right now. The pride of ownership is a good harvest and you know! That is enough.

 

[glacierridge]

Here she is as a filthy, sassy "teenager"
Right around 13 months old, just before she was bred.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Nice cow now and heifer then. How much he weighed when you've bred her for first time?

 

[inyati13]

Hey, she is nice. Looks like some character too. Funny how having a calf changes their personality some.

 

[glacierridge]

I think she was about 900 when she was bred. Can't remember exactly. And yeah inyati, she does have a lot of character. She isn't the biggest cow in the pasture, but she doesn't let anyone push her around. Even when she was 1300# and 8 months along with the twins last year.

 

[glacierridge]

It's a girl!!!

 

[glacierridge]

Baby girl was named "Tootsie" and is a little pistol... perky, high energy and her momma is feeding her well so she's growing
She likes to run full throttle up and down the barn alley

 

[jackofalltrades]

Nice cow and calf. If you are worried about her pasterns you are looking for something to worry over. The shoulder points are not real bad but more concern than the pasterns for sure. I would pick something else to fret over with either one for sure.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

they cant stay heifers forever.. they got to go to work...

 

[3waycross]

She looks fine to me. The shoulder can be balanced with correct breeding. Just do not ever breed her to a bull with the same defect.

Her pasterns are fine.

She is for sure way better than my first cow!

 

[glacierridge]

"Tootsie" as she became known... At about a month and a half, full of energy and stretching her frame, hoping she will be a little bigger than her dam, maybe like granddam.
Her full siblings went to the fair, attractive pair, so hopefully she'll be awesome