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randiliana

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We really aren't due to start calving til March 5. Don't know where she found a bull, but she did. Wasn't totally a surprise, we were watching her. DH checked at 7am and no calf, although he agreed with my assessment from last night, that she had bagged up more. Checked her at 10:30am and there was a baby (maybe another one, in a bit??)

I took some photos of her 2 days ago, she really didn't change much from how she looked in these photos til she calved, other than bagging up a bit more. No tight udder here. She is a 5 year old cow that we raised.
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our cow's seem to be doing the same thing this year. usually their bags are pretty tight and big this year is different for whatever reason it's weird
 
that is a tight udder for a hereford......just kidding....
three weeks is not highly unusual to be early. actually only nineteen days.
I use to have one or two that early every year and know that there were no unknown matings.
 
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Yeah, well, she was supposed to be bred Black Angus, and I am 99.9% sure that the bull she was supposed to be bred to doesn't carry the red gene....
 
randiliana":6go56tww said:
Yeah, well, she was supposed to be bred Black Angus, and I am 99.9% sure that the bull she was supposed to be bred to doesn't carry the red gene....
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then yes.....
it sounds like clandestine indiscretion undetected to me.

any idea of the likely baby daddy? sort of like a Jerry Springer or Maury Povich show, ain't it?
 
Well, the best guess on daddy is either Shorthorn, or Hereford as they were right across the fence from her. But the calf is rather light red for either of them. Couldn't say for sure which one either, cause the Hereford was known for reducing the white markings on any Hereford type cows he bred. OTOH, the Shorthorn could definitely have given us a red baldy calf when bred to here.

BUT, the lighter color of the calf and the smaller BW lead me to think that our heifer bull (Red Angus) might have found his way in there too, but he'd have had to jump 2 fences and then go back for that to have happened, and that is a stretch to believe. I guess short of DNA we won't ever know for sure.....
 
I had a heifer a few months ago a week after timed AI, who went thru two fences to get to the neighbors red angus yearling bulls. Darn near ran over me while I was trying to block her and drive her back. Once she was thru the fence the deed was done. I figured to leave her for a day or two until sanity returned.
Next morning she was in with my Yearling black angus bulls. Evidently sanity was completely overwhelmed. Next day I put her back where she belonged. Decided to let her go with this one as I would rather have a calf on schedule of unknown parentage than a late one of known parentage
 
When we were getting ready to AI some cows that we had synced and turn the others out with the bull we had one cow that was just coming into heat of the ones that were going to the bull. Went ahead and AIed her to Hereford then imediatly turned her out with a Red Angus (solid black cow) she popped 10 days early yesterday with a black baldy.
 
sounds like one of your swimmers with the head start done good.
not exactly what any of us would have predicted though is it.
One nice thing about the age of DNA is that like for me if I have a calf that is between dates of AI and bull exposure now I can easily test and register correctly.
I have a heifer calf that way this year. I am planning on testing her. I will register in any case and keep but want to get it right.
neighbor lets them go more than three weeks before exposing to the bull but the season is so strung out for him doing it that way and then if he missed a heat or something he is all bummed at preg check.
 

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