Show me your herd!

[BFE]

10 year old reg angus cow I purchased this spring. Has a January heifer calf on her that is due to be weaned.

 

[anewcomer]

The heifers hitting the same johnsongrass patch again.




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Chaded, love that you are grazing that Johnsongrass at just the right stage. Nothing in your pasture provides as much quality!

 

[BFE]

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.

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.

 

[Named'em Tamed'em]

What's she done (or not done) to earn a trip to slaughter? Nice looking cow.

She doesn't have the best feet, raises a nice calf though.

 

[BFE]

The daughter of the cow posted above.

 

[alacowman1]

Especially 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.

Fescue ain't even in a slump here.too busy being dead

 

[southernultrablack]

Nice little spring calf, and some of the cows out grazing Sorghum Sudan

 

[coachg]

A few of my 2022 babies . They were checking out what I was doing .

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

The white face in the 1st pic is a yearling. The 2nd pic is a weaned January heifer calf.

 

[pleasantpasturesbeef]

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.

 

[Travlr]

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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Congrats on the calf. That cow is so fat you're lucky that the birth didn't need to be assisted.

 

[Aero]

Congrats on the calf. That cow is so fat you're lucky that the birth didn't need to be assisted.

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.

 

[TwoByrdsMG]

Well, here's a few.

PB Charolais ET January heifer calf, Two Byrds Blizzard Vision


PB MG ET January Bull calf, Two Byrds Knight

PB MG Cow just turned 3 and weaned her January heifer calf, LGR Gem


PB MG 4-H Steer (my son's) placed 3rd overall in the Bred and Fed for our county (and made the front page of the newspaper!)


Braunvieh cows doing pretty good. They come running when I whistle now since I always provide treats

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Glad the Braunviehs are working out. Cattle look great as normal.

 

[TCRanch]

The white face in the 1st pic is a yearling. The 2nd pic is a weaned January heifer calf.

Really like that heifer! And pretty jealous of your grass. What's that big white thing in the background?

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Thanks!
That is a street brush on a stand. A pole with a concrete filled tire.
We rotational graze, but we were down to two weeks of grazing and we started getting small showers. Pastures have bounced back. One thing about NY. We can grow grass.

 

[pleasantpasturesbeef]

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.

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.

She was a first-place winning show cow before I bought her, so she was used to being pampered and brought up on grain. In the winter she even sticks her nose up at hay that doesn't fit her high standard of what a show cow should eat in her opinion lol.

 

[pleasantpasturesbeef]

I'm always afraid that she's gonna give me a high birth weight calf and have birth problems, but she drops these babies like nothing. We can never catch her in calving since she goes to the far end of the pasture, and next thing we know we see her with a little calf.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Did she calve at or near24 months of age, and has given you a live calf every 12 months since then?