I have one that had her 5th calf recently... Nice set of matched horns... I said I will let her die on the farm, or when open, will process her for ground beef... I want her head/horns... But at the rate she is going, she will outlive me!!!! She is a little friendlier, comes to a bucket. Have her 2nd daughter being bred now...Son said she could die on the farm ; paid for herself with her 2nd calf. That was 4-5 calves ago . He said something about wanting her horns .
In addition to being a good momma, with adequate milk, and zero calving problems, you won't have to worry about coyotes, either. Back in Feb or March, when we had some new calves, some of our Corrs killed one and broke another's back ( which Scot found and shot it after it got light.) Scott was up at 4 AM that day, and the cameras we had put down at the Kudzu Place pole barn, and one at the arena, looking toward the pond, alerted. We had them there due to some theft and poaching. He saw 2 come into camera range from out of the woods, One had the calf by an ear, and was kinda dragging it kinda leading it, while the other looked like it was trying to hamstring a back leg. Momma came into camera range at a full charge, with 2 or 3 more behind her. When she caught up to them, the one after the back leg, turned loose and veered off, right in the path of one of the other cows, She never slowed up...hit him in the gut and ribs, and threw him so high over her head he went out of the camera range for a second. Broke his back when he hit, I guess, because he crawled out of camera range with his front legs, dragging his body and hind legs, toward the woods. The one that had the ear, got bowled over by momma, then she turned and just drove her horns in him, pushing him along about 20 feet., then she got on her knees and just grinded him into the ground. Others came up about that time, and joined in. They had calves too, that were tagging along behind them. I guess those cows figured the yotes could have just as easily got one of theirs. In all of our years, we have never lost a calf to a coyote( or anything else) down there. This was the first attempted predation that we know of. and after seeing that trail cam footage , I know why! Calf was unhurt, by the way.... just some scratches and a torn ear. Probably took Scott 4 minutes to get out his kitchen door, onto a 4 wheeler and get down to the pole barn, and it was all over by the time he got there.
I agree . Neighbor next to that pasture has a blue heeler . I seen that old gal come to attention if he ever comes in the pasture. The dog doesn't tarry long .
nerve racking . This is where I ran over the calf last fall .
No, someone would have had to download and save it the day it happened. These things only retain a certain number of hours before it is recorded over. This was 5 or 6 months ago. I was able to see it on my computer later that morning after Scott called me. But a day or so later it was gone. I don't have the alerts "on" on my computer, or I might have woke up at 4 that morning as well. No sense in me getting that alarm going off any time a deer or possum, or cow, walks by, me being 3 hours away.
After he got there, the calf that was the target was still laying on the ground, close to where the cows were pulverizing the dead coyote. Scott walked up to it( our herd rarely sees a human on foot) to check it out. He said momma came over to him, sniffed and snorted at the calf, which jumped up then, and she never showed any signs of aggression toward Scott.
Lady friends first husband out at Bryant , was pushing brush off the bluff backing it with a box blade..got on a slick rock and over he went,,about 80 ft down. Tractor was upright and running when they found him ,one tire was wore down from spinning on a boulder..
Scary ! There's a stand of trees and the fence between the pasture and the edge of the bluff . We've had calves to get off the bluff but never a cow . There are some places that are sheer drop offs and a few places to get up and down . The deer use those . A fellow close to Section at Macedonia drove his John Deere lawn mower off the bluff . Not a good outcome .
