Turned out today.

[anewcomer]

Kenny, when do you calve?

 

[kenny thomas]

Kenny, when do you calve?

They are starting next week. The calves you see are on cows i bought last November. Bought them because they belonged to my brother in law who was selling out because of health reasons. I needed cows and it helped him.
Actually 1 cow calved last week after the preg check. I missed turning her out when i was sorting the heavy breds out.

 

[gcreekrch]

I understand that, as I said if you have a really large place it would be harder, but on most of the folks on this site I'm not sure if there's many that are running on that big of a place. A while back we had some friends that were running cattle on marshland, probably well overa thousand acres and it was like herding deer over there

Most winters we feed some peas screening pellets as a protein supplement. We run on a total of nearly 30,000 acres in summer but the cows never forget that the sound of a horn blowing means a treat.

 

[ClinchValley86]

Mine finally got to the hilltop. this week. Better quality up there.

 

[Louthelivestockguy]

Heck. Your doing a better job than i am. Notice in the pictures mine is very hilly. Some pretty steep. Im on a cane and its hard for me to fence and move them like i should. I should be moving them every day also.

Love your area of the states. Blue Ridge Mountains are beautiful and manageable unlike the Rockies where you need 45 acres for a cow calf!

Heck. Your doing a better job than i am. Notice in the pictures mine is very hilly. Some pretty steep. Im on a cane and its hard for me to fence and move them like i should. I should be moving them every day also.

 

[kenny thomas]

I took forage samples Monday so should have them back in a few days. Some of the area had been flooded for a few days so i took a seperate sample from that area. Here are a few pictures to show the cows will make it through the winter i think.

 

[kenny thomas]

I will post the results of the forage samples in a few days.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Cows look great. Doing a super job! I love your Brown Swiss! Always have a soft spot for them. NO - I will NEVER own one!

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

They all look good, so the stockpile must not be too bad.

 

[kenny thomas]

Cows look great. Doing a super job! I love your Brown Swiss! Always have a soft spot for them. NO - I will NEVER own one!

Jeanne, she is actually a purebred Braunvieh. Which yes was once a brown swiss. She had a black blaze face calf last year when bred to my Simmental bull. I will try to remember to post what type calf she will have this year.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

No wonder I liked her! Many years ago, a family showed Braunvieh cattle at NYSF.

 

[Warren Allison]

Jeanne, she is actually a purebred Braunvieh. Which yes was once a brown swiss. She had a black blaze face calf last year when bred to my Simmental bull. I will try to remember to post what type calf she will have this year.

Good looking cow! Does she seem to produce more milk than other beef breeds you have? She looks exactly like those Braunvieh older recip cows I got from the Charolais breeder here a couple of years ago. They were fairly heavy milkers. Not enough to be a nurse cow or anything, but they sure raised some nice Charolais calves for him. He said that was one reason they used them for recips. Now they are using some of their daughters b a Fleckvieh bull. They are some good sized cows, and have a fairly big udders. They look...udder-wise.... like the Simmental cows that people had in the 70's around here.

 

[ClinchValley86]

I love that bull's head.

 

[tsellars]

Is that the bull you got from Simme?

 

[kenny thomas]

Is that the bull you got from Simme?

That is the first bull i got from Simme, yes. He bred the cow especially for a bull calf i wanted. I bought his 1/2 brother from the same cow last fall and will buy another 1/2 brother from the same cow this year if he allows me to have him.

 

[kenny thomas]

Good looking cow! Does she seem to produce more milk than other beef breeds you have? She looks exactly like those Braunvieh older recip cows I got from the Charolais breeder here a couple of years ago. They were fairly heavy milkers. Not enough to be a nurse cow or anything, but they sure raised some nice Charolais calves for him. He said that was one reason they used them for recips. Now they are using some of their daughters b a Fleckvieh bull. They are some good sized cows, and have a fairly big udders. They look...udder-wise.... like the Simmental cows that people had in the 70's around here.

She milks well but not to the point of her udder being bad. She is 8 maybe and has a perfect udder.

 

[simme]

That is the first bull i got from Simme, yes. He bred the cow especially for a bull calf i wanted. I bought his 1/2 brother from the same cow last fall and will buy another 1/2 brother from the same cow this year if he allows me to have him.

Bull calf she has this year is the white face calf I have posted. Born 9/1/24. The dam has had 5 calves, all ai sired and each by a different bull. Only 1 heifer. Settled on first ai service every time except once. That year, she was bred to the Franchise bull that is the sire of the bull clinchvalley has. She did not settle to Franchise and ai'ed 3 weeks later to 600U. If she had settled to that first service, there would be no KT 600U K69. Luck was on our side every step of the way on getting you a bull calf from that last straw of semen.

She was last bred on 11/28/24. Expected calving 9/7/25. Sire of her next calf will be OMF Epic E27 with that recommendation from our friend Jeanne. 6.1 yearling FS.

 

[kenny thomas]

Bull calf she has this year is the white face calf I have posted. Born 9/1/24. The dam has had 5 calves, all ai sired and each by a different bull. Only 1 heifer. Settled on first ai service every time except once. That year, she was bred to the Franchise bull that is the sire of the bull clinchvalley has. She did not settle to Franchise and ai'ed 3 weeks later to 600U. If she had settled to that first service, there would be no KT 600U K69. Luck was on our side every step of the way on getting you a bull calf from that last straw of semen.

She was last bred on 11/28/24. Expected calving 9/7/25. Sire of her next calf will be OMF Epic E27 with that recommendation from our friend Jeanne. 6.1 yearling FS.
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Oh, once i found out she had 600u history and you had 1 straw left i would have hounded you until you bred her. Im just so happy it was a bull and not the heifer most might have wanted.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Yes, we love our OMF Epic calves. He is a spread bull, generally early gestation and lots of growth.

 

[farmerjan]

Cows look great. Doing a super job! I love your Brown Swiss! Always have a soft spot for them. NO - I will NEVER own one!

I think it is a Braunvieh...

OOps. posted this then saw that @kenny thomas had posted... We used a Braunvieh one year and he put some nice calves on the ground... but too mixed in color with our "multi crayon box color" cows...