The boss and I went to the farm yesterday to take care of things. Our son and his wife were heading out of town for a wedding so they dropped the twins off with us before they headed out of town. Needless to say I am now sitting back and trying to recuperate from twin 5 year olds! Before the girls arrived we let the mature cows out on the rye grass. So here goes a photo journal of my weekend.
This is the mature cow group, we rotate them onto the rye grass for about 4 to 5 hours each day, then back into the loafing pasture and a bale of low quality hay, they do get free choice minerals.
This calf is D53 he is out of a home raised bull sire is a Final Answer son and dam is a clean Morgans Direction.
This is D45 he is a ET calf, I purchased 4 embryos a few years ago the year I got them we only put a couple in and neither one stuck. Last year we put the last two in and both stuck we have a heifer and bull out of this mating. The sire is SAV Resource and the dam is SAV Blackcap May 2315. The bull calf has been a stud since birth just keeps catching my eye. The heifer is nice but I didn't manage to get a photo of her.
D33 is another ET heifer this one out of Coleman Blackbird 1554 and sired by Wulff's EXT 6106. I am a huge fan of the 6106 calves they make some awesome females.
D34 is a Coleman Charlo heifer out of a Sinclair Rito 9R9 daughter that was out of a cow that traces back to our Gizmo Elluna 0168 donor cow. edited oops my bad this is not D34 she is D31 a Charlo sired ET calf out of OCC Dixie Erica 744P, this heifer got injured at a very young age she healed up but had an abcess we had to treat in her shoulder. I think it slowed her down a bit but she seems to have overcome the injury completely. All we can figure is she got stepped on, with the cows crowing up under shade.
D19 I have pictured in other threads this is a Charlo sired heifer out of Gizmo Evergreen 907. The 907 cow is a Pathfinder that traces back to a heifer purchased by our son Jacob when he was in high school. He purchased her with the proceeds from his steer project from Twin Valley Farm in Alabama He showed the heifer Twin Valley Evergreen 2477 at the Junior Angus National show in 1998.
gizmom
This is the mature cow group, we rotate them onto the rye grass for about 4 to 5 hours each day, then back into the loafing pasture and a bale of low quality hay, they do get free choice minerals.
This calf is D53 he is out of a home raised bull sire is a Final Answer son and dam is a clean Morgans Direction.
This is D45 he is a ET calf, I purchased 4 embryos a few years ago the year I got them we only put a couple in and neither one stuck. Last year we put the last two in and both stuck we have a heifer and bull out of this mating. The sire is SAV Resource and the dam is SAV Blackcap May 2315. The bull calf has been a stud since birth just keeps catching my eye. The heifer is nice but I didn't manage to get a photo of her.
D33 is another ET heifer this one out of Coleman Blackbird 1554 and sired by Wulff's EXT 6106. I am a huge fan of the 6106 calves they make some awesome females.
D34 is a Coleman Charlo heifer out of a Sinclair Rito 9R9 daughter that was out of a cow that traces back to our Gizmo Elluna 0168 donor cow. edited oops my bad this is not D34 she is D31 a Charlo sired ET calf out of OCC Dixie Erica 744P, this heifer got injured at a very young age she healed up but had an abcess we had to treat in her shoulder. I think it slowed her down a bit but she seems to have overcome the injury completely. All we can figure is she got stepped on, with the cows crowing up under shade.
D19 I have pictured in other threads this is a Charlo sired heifer out of Gizmo Evergreen 907. The 907 cow is a Pathfinder that traces back to a heifer purchased by our son Jacob when he was in high school. He purchased her with the proceeds from his steer project from Twin Valley Farm in Alabama He showed the heifer Twin Valley Evergreen 2477 at the Junior Angus National show in 1998.
gizmom