Photogenic

[randiliana]

I just had to post these two. This is my favorite heifer. Of course, it helps that she likes to pose for pics.

Here she is last fall just before we weaned.

And here she is at about 15 months.

 

[spike]

LOoks good. Now how about a side view?

 

[Jogeephus]

She likes to pose. Why did you change her tag? I thought I was the only one who had to do that.

 

[randiliana]

LOoks good. Now how about a side view?

Here you go, not the best picture. She went through an "ugly" phase this winter. She only poses like the first 2 not for the side pics ;-)

 

[randiliana]

She likes to pose. Why did you change her tag? I thought I was the only one who had to do that.

#119 will be her permanant herd #. That is providing she gets bred this summer. The other tag is her dam's number (#200), we tag all the calves with the same # as the cow. It makes it much, much easier when we have to sort them, and we do a fair bit of sorting. Then, when we kick the replacements out in the spring we give them their own #. That way we don't have 3 #200's in the herd.

 

[Jogeephus]

Gotcha. I'm glad I'm not the only one who has to retag. I normally just tag em on the first working then try to figure out who belongs to who. Then I retag back to the dam's number but put a year in front of number. I also try to tag all steers in left ear and heifers in right. Seems to help a little.

 

[farmwife]

Gotcha. I'm glad I'm not the only one who has to retag. I normally just tag em on the first working then try to figure out who belongs to who. Then I retag back to the dam's number but put a year in front of number. I also try to tag all steers in left ear and heifers in right. Seems to help a little.

We use the cow number plus the year number. That way we will always know the dam for the calf. We rarely retain, so having a long number hasn't become an issue. If you retain, eventually the number would be too long (i.e., Cow number 24 had a heifer in 04, so her number would be 244. Then the 244 heifer had a calf in 06, so her number would be 2446. When the 2446 heifer has a calf it would be 5 digits long, and so on...) Could be an issue for someone who retained more. I do like the tagging in different ears for heifers and steers.

 

[randiliana]

Gotcha. I'm glad I'm not the only one who has to retag. I normally just tag em on the first working then try to figure out who belongs to who. Then I retag back to the dam's number but put a year in front of number. I also try to tag all steers in left ear and heifers in right. Seems to help a little.

We use the cow number plus the year number. That way we will always know the dam for the calf. We rarely retain, so having a long number hasn't become an issue. If you retain, eventually the number would be too long (i.e., Cow number 24 had a heifer in 04, so her number would be 244. Then the 244 heifer had a calf in 06, so her number would be 2446. When the 2446 heifer has a calf it would be 5 digits long, and so on...) Could be an issue for someone who retained more. I do like the tagging in different ears for heifers and steers.

We use different color tags for steers and heifers. Steers get orange and heifers get white. Any heifer that goes into the herd just gets an "open" number. If I want to know any info about an animal, I have extensive records and I would just have to pull up a cows page to know just about anything about her. For backup, I tattoo all the heifers with a number and the year letter. That way if we have someone lose a tag and don't know who she was it is just a matter of running her down the chute and looking.