This Hurts

[inyati13]

I was warned. My cows are getting too fat. But I have so much clover and grass due to recent clearing operations. I cleared my farm with a D3G I purchased and reseeded with a beef cattle pasture mix. It took like wildfire on the newly turned soil. Now I am the victum of my success. First, I lost a nice heifer to bloat. Now one of my favorite cows has gone 9 months with a bull and was palpatated to find she is still without calf. My friend said she is too fat and advised me to sell her unless I just wanted an expensive pet. I like this cow. She is as tame as a pup and very nice. But looks like she and I will be parting. A sad day for me! :cry2:

 

[glacierridge]

How old is she?
If you have the finances to expend the time to keep her, she could breed if she looses some of the extra chub. Gotta make her like an athlete again. Do you have a separated place or a stall where she could be kept to get her trimmed down?
Again, depends how badly you want to keep her and how much time/money you want to invest... Just like humans, we can't get pregnant if we are too fat either, but if we can take the weight off, things will start to work like they should again.

 

[Taurus]

It's tough for chubby cows to be re-bred if they are still fat. I sold an open fat cow yesterday at the sale barn........then I learned that she is carrying a calf. :bang:

 

[glacierridge]

It's tough for chubby cows to be re-bred if they are still fat. I sold an open fat cow yesterday at the sale barn........then I learned that she is carrying a calf. :bang:

Oh that stinks... :(
Even if you get a good price, somehow it does not make up for it...

 

[Taurus]

It's tough for chubby cows to be re-bred if they are still fat. I sold an open fat cow yesterday at the sale barn........then I learned that she is carrying a calf. :bang:

Oh that stinks... :(
Even if you get a good price, somehow it does not make up for it...

Eh, glad that she is gone! Always be the last cow to be haul in the trailer when we move the cows to the summer pasture. Always be the last cow to goes in the chute for deworming. Don't like how her calves look like. Her calves were all bulls but they look like a black hided dairy heifer and I don't even steer them out (all of the bulls goes to the sale barn).

 

[highgrit]

This is a good lesson for a couple of people on here. You need to know what's going on with your cows. It's pretty easy to preg. check your cows yourself.
And it's cheap to have a Vet come and do it for you. The bottom line is you need to know what's going on with your cows.

 

[Chris H]

I was warned. My cows are getting too fat. But I have so much clover and grass due to recent clearing operations. I cleared my farm with a D3G I purchased and reseeded with a beef cattle pasture mix. It took like wildfire on the newly turned soil. Now I am the victum of my success. First, I lost a nice heifer to bloat. Now one of my favorite cows has gone 9 months with a bull and was palpatated to find she is still without calf. My friend said she is too fat and advised me to sell her unless I just wanted an expensive pet. I like this cow. She is as tame as a pup and very nice. But looks like she and I will be parting. A sad day for me! :cry2:

She is fat, but since you said you have a recent clearing job I'm going to assume she got this fat recently? How long did you keep her last calf on her?

 

[Isomade]

Do you have another picture of her from the side?

 

[Ouachita]

Do you have another picture of her from the side?

:lol2:

 

[inyati13]

Here is a side-view.

 

[inyati13]

She is 8 years old so not a youngster! I got her from my brother when she was 6. I know from other cows I have sold, this cow will weigh 1750. She is bigger than the pictures tell. I often pet her and admire her size. Chris, her last calf was on her 8 months. Sold in March of this year. I will add that the guy who palpatated her is not a vet but has been at this a long time. He said that her size made her difficult to palpatate. But if there is a calf it is small and positioned low. He also thought she may have a growth in her oviduct. Or it could be fat deposits.

 

[glacierridge]

She is 8 years old so not a youngster! I got her from my brother when she was 6. I know from other cows I have sold, this cow will weigh 1750. She is bigger than the pictures tell. I often pet her and admire her size. Chris, her last calf was on her 8 months. Sold in March of this year. I will add that the guy who palpatated her is not a vet but has been at this a long time. He said that her size made her difficult to palpatate. But if there is a calf it is small and positioned low. He also thought she may have a growth in her oviduct. Or it could be fat deposits.

If she could be with calf, if she is further along... Have you tried to bump a calf? I used to do it easily on dairy cows, beef it's a little harder, but it can be done.

 

[glacierridge]

While she is still plenty round, I think she looks like she has a lower BCS than from the front angle picture. Hmmm. I wish I could see her live, even a short video.

 

[Isomade]

She ain't to fat tot breed.

 

[glacierridge]

She ain't to fat tot breed.

I would agree. She's plenty plump, but I've seen bigger slobs that bred.

 

[glacierridge]

For example, my brother's cow.
She's with her 4th calf right now, last year a month before her 3rd calf I measured her middle... the weight tape ran out of inches to show her girth!! Around her biggest point she was an estimated 9 1/2 feet around. I think she's even bigger now and when we bred her she sure didn't shrink a whole lot (we are guessing she is around a ton)
My brother doesn't mind keeping her around, even though she's so huge, she doesn't actually eat that much.

 

[dun]

Beinf fat in itself doesn;t cause repro problems, depends on where the fat is layed down. Internal fat can cause obstruction of the repro tract or turn to fatty tumors that block off the ovarys, etc. Neighbors had a cow that was fatter then this one and bred back on time every year. We had one that wasn;t very fat but had fatty deposits in her repro organs (became fatty tumors) and she came up open.

 

[chippie]

The doctor who delivered our children would buy the commercial heifers shown at our fair.The kids fit the heifers for halter. He bought our oldest daughter's heifer. He told her that he wasn't worried about the heifer. He knew that he could turn her out and she would be fine. Our daughter told the auctioneer to tell the bidders that the heifer was pastured raised. He made fun of her saying all heifers ate grass. She was 11 and so embarrassed. Well it paid off because her heifer sold for more than the Grand Champion. The doctor told our daughter that so many of the heifers that he had bought in the past were too fat and never got pregnant. Most he would have to transition from grain to pasture so that they wouldn't fall apart. He was a kind and generous man. He didn't mind that he got some duds, he was happy to help the kids.

 

[glacierridge]

Beinf fat in itself doesn;t cause repro problems, depends on where the fat is layed down. Internal fat can cause obstruction of the repro tract or turn to fatty tumors that block off the ovarys, etc. Neighbors had a cow that was fatter then this one and bred back on time every year. We had one that wasn;t very fat but had fatty deposits in her repro organs (became fatty tumors) and she came up open.

Ah true, Belgian Blue have that problem if they get too fat. They don't put hardly a lick of fat in the meat, it all goes to the internal organs. :(

 

[inyati13]

Dun hit on the problem I fear and why I will probably sell this cow in the coming week. The guy who palpatated her said there were fatty tumors or he thought that is what they were obstructing her reproductive organs, i.e., ovaries and oviduct.