I'm no longer in calving mode, i'm in maintenance mode. I drive through my herds and watch for anyone off alone or doing anything suspicious. I come across a cow who's on the wrong side of the fence. It does have some bad areas where cows could cross, but i found it odd she'd cross because there is so much grass. Her udder was full, so i expected a calf to come running. Got a phone call so i was around her for about 15 min. I watched her walk to the pond to get a drink. I saw a big heifer run over to her. I thought, yep...but no, heifer just passed by her. A cow came up to her and rammed her in the side. I then thought, could she be from our herd down the road. All our friggen tags are unreadable now, between the dalis grass and fading, numbers are all gone. I did take a picture of it, brought it home to my computer and faintly saw what her number was. Looked her up and saw that i marked her down as open when we wormed cows a couple months ago...SOOOOO, a few hours later i went back thinking maybe she was in labor losing a 4 month fetus..
When i went back i found this. He was on the side of the fence i found her. So, why did we have a off season calf? We left one of the calves last year a bull. He was one of the younger calves so when we pulled the bulls off, we left him until we weaned. He grew so much after we pulled the bulls off, we luted all the heifers we kept out of that pasture. This cow is a big cow, very very surprised he bred her. But if anything, we get a preview of what we will get out of him next year. Her number is 225....we tattoo all their ears so they get a new number written on their tag. But next year, i want to do something else. Its almost impossible to read 90% of anyones numbers this time of year.
When i went back i found this. He was on the side of the fence i found her. So, why did we have a off season calf? We left one of the calves last year a bull. He was one of the younger calves so when we pulled the bulls off, we left him until we weaned. He grew so much after we pulled the bulls off, we luted all the heifers we kept out of that pasture. This cow is a big cow, very very surprised he bred her. But if anything, we get a preview of what we will get out of him next year. Her number is 225....we tattoo all their ears so they get a new number written on their tag. But next year, i want to do something else. Its almost impossible to read 90% of anyones numbers this time of year.
