New calf born today!

[Jovid]

78 lb bull calf up and sucking in 30 minutes.

Unfortunately he wasn't born with an ear tag like 3way's calf.

 

[Suzie Q]

Awwww - at least that would be what I would say if I could see it clearly. Monitor is still dark, I am still waiting on insurance.

 

[Red Bull Breeder]

Looks like the little feller is off to a good start. Got one should calve any day, maybe she will wait till tommrow.

 

[3waycross]

Unfortunately he wasn't born with an ear tag like 3way's calf.


What can I say I get em quick.

 

[Julian]

Nice looking pair.

 

[Dylan Biggs]

Always nice to see them get up and at em right off the bat.

Looks like a nice moderate kind of cow.

 

[snickers]

how old is the cow? and I'm assume she is a red angus?

 

[Jovid]

how old is the cow? and I'm assume she is a red angus?

Cow was born 11/05. She was orphaned at 1 month and stole milk till she was two months old when I got her for my granddaughter to show. This is her 4th calf and she is a Red Poll

Here is a picture of her at 16 months old

 

[3waycross]

how old is the cow? and I'm assume she is a red angus?

I'll save Jovid the trouble. He raises Red Polls, and some darned good ones at that.

 

[bigbull338]

that is 1 fine looking pair you have there.

 

[snickers]

I have to agree wish I had a whole bunch of those.

 

[Northern Rancher]

Jovid did you ever check out how well red polls did at the MARC test on cow diet pre and post calving. Basically they had four groups of cows on these energy regimes pre and post calving. low/low, low/high, high/low and high/high. The low/low group were pretty much starved before and after calving-the Red Poll cows were the only group that bred back with any success under it. This was back in 1990 when I toured MARC.

 

[Jovid]

Jovid did you ever check out how well red polls did at the MARC test on cow diet pre and post calving. Basically they had four groups of cows on these energy regimes pre and post calving. low/low, low/high, high/low and high/high. The low/low group were pretty much starved before and after calving-the Red Poll cows were the only group that bred back with any success under it. This was back in 1990 when I toured MARC.

I actually knew that. We met Dr Gregory at MARC and he explained in detail all the research they had done with Red Polls.

We usually don't have any trouble with them breeding back. In fact all our spring calvers moved up at least one cycle and one cow moved up two. She calved last year the middle of March and she had a calf on January 27th. We normally don't calve this early but we didn't pull the bull last year for a couple of reasons. It has been interesting calving in the snow and 28 below zero temps. We only have two cows and 2 heifers left to calve.

 

[Northern Rancher]

No if anything RP cattle seem to be very ferile.

 

[Jovid]

No if anything RP cattle seem to be very ferile.

We usually wean our heifer calves at 6 months to keep them from getting bred.