Chaded, love that you are grazing that Johnsongrass at just the right stage. Nothing in your pasture provides as much quality!
Especially this time of year, as the fescue is hitting that slump.Chaded, love that you are grazing that Johnsongrass at just the right stage. Nothing in your pasture provides as much quality!
She doesn't have the best feet, raises a nice calf though.What's she done (or not done) to earn a trip to slaughter? Nice looking cow.
Fescue ain't even in a slump here.too busy being deadEspecially this time of year, as the fescue is hitting that slump.
Not much johnsongrass here, except on the highways. All the farmers waged passionate war on it when it started showing up decades ago and surprisingly kept it in check.
Congrats on the calf. That cow is so fat you're lucky that the birth didn't need to be assisted.Thankful for a beautiful and healthy heifer from my favorite cow this past week. She gets to stay on the farm since she's not a bull.
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Travlr is right here. Back down the groceries to avoid painful decisions. She's got enough energy packed away to get that calf to weaning on poor hay.Congrats on the calf. That cow is so fat you're lucky that the birth didn't need to be assisted.
Really like that heifer! And pretty jealous of your grass. What's that big white thing in the background?The white face in the 1st pic is a yearling. The 2nd pic is a weaned January heifer calf.
You know, it's so funny, cause a lot of people who see her comment that she's a bit fat, and I agree. All summer I've been lamenting that she's been on some pretty rough pasture, lots of weeds and very little rain. The past month or so she and 3 other cows have been sharing a 1 or 2 acre pasture, and it's pretty low quality grass and weeds and thistle, etc. She only gets a small slash of grain once a week when I go out and check on her and the other cows. I can't seem to get her to lose any weight, so not sure why she's so large. About a month before she calved she started to get pretty chubby on her rear end, so that gave me a clue that she was getting close.Travlr is right here. Back down the groceries to avoid painful decisions. She's got enough energy packed away to get that calf to weaning on poor hay.