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Possibility of estimating the age of a cow?
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<blockquote data-quote="ksmit454" data-source="post: 1774092" data-attributes="member: 39792"><p>One of the very first cows I bough was back in Feb 2020. I was working at our local feed store and a customer came in and mentioned to me that he had just purchased property locally that had 13 Herefords that came with the property. He was interested in selling them. I ended up purchasing them all, and kept only 1 cow out of the whole bunch. Rest went to auction because no maintence was kept on those poor cows… tons of young heifers with young bulls and a few older cows and one older bull. Seems like an operation that got out of control. The gentleman I bought them from said they were extremely skinny when he bought the property too. The one cow I kept, we call her "big mama". Most gentle, sweet, easy going cow. I love having her around as she makes moving cows, doctoring cows, so much easier (she comes, they all come). She had a heifer calf in August 2020, a bull calf in September 2021, and is bred now for a calf due in January 2023. I have no idea how old she is… is there a way to sort of guesstimate? I think she was a cow when I purchased her because her teats didn't look like first calf heifer teats. I can get better pictures but here is a few of her.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ksmit454, post: 1774092, member: 39792"] One of the very first cows I bough was back in Feb 2020. I was working at our local feed store and a customer came in and mentioned to me that he had just purchased property locally that had 13 Herefords that came with the property. He was interested in selling them. I ended up purchasing them all, and kept only 1 cow out of the whole bunch. Rest went to auction because no maintence was kept on those poor cows… tons of young heifers with young bulls and a few older cows and one older bull. Seems like an operation that got out of control. The gentleman I bought them from said they were extremely skinny when he bought the property too. The one cow I kept, we call her “big mama”. Most gentle, sweet, easy going cow. I love having her around as she makes moving cows, doctoring cows, so much easier (she comes, they all come). She had a heifer calf in August 2020, a bull calf in September 2021, and is bred now for a calf due in January 2023. I have no idea how old she is… is there a way to sort of guesstimate? I think she was a cow when I purchased her because her teats didn’t look like first calf heifer teats. I can get better pictures but here is a few of her. [/QUOTE]
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