inyati13
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Nesikep":2k5hl59u said:his new home is about 3 hours away (Falkland BC)... No, his mother is the one that had a stroke this spring, and that's the reason he got weaned a month early... I really wanted to get another heifer from her too... I only got one from her and she's turning out to be a heck of a cow... her first calf was a steer that she weaned at 670 lbs, and this year she's got a really impressive heifer who's on my "keep" list... my only thing that strikes me as something that could be improved is she has a pretty big tailhead... but I've never seen a cow have a problem due to that. All her daughters seem to take after her in the way that they all have big bellies and look pregnant after calving, but I read that big bellies are good for digesting grass.
Nearly the most important thing to me is that they're easy to handle, they halterbreak easily and often I can just use a piece of bale twine around their head as a halter to lead them. The mother often had retained placenta, and I could give her uterine boluses just by putting a flake of hay down on the ground... doesn't get much easier than that.
I do remember the Big Horse of a cow. You and I are both hands on. I could not go into their uterus w/o the chute. That has got to be extremely rare. I have not tried a halter on anything. But it is something I would like to try. Sometimes it flashes through my mind that it would be cool to have a cow or bull broke to ride. When I was out west going to rodeos, their was a guy out of SD who rode a Bison.