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lithuanian farmer

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Today calved 15months old heifer. Had a heifer calf. Not small for the dam. Needed assistance, but luckily calf is alive and young cow loves her daughter. Calf's weight is around 77lbs.
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When pulling calf was stuck for two times, once was stuck the calf's head, second- before back legs.
Dam has Angus, Limousine, Charolais and dairy blood. Sire is pure Limousine.
 
Happy to hear a happy ending :) She seems like she'll make a heck of a cow! From what I can see of her udder it looks fantastic for a first calver. You have great stock.
 
Thank you all! If just this newborn heifer gonna grow well, would like to leave her.
P.S. Well, looks that one our cow became a grandgrandgraddam when this girl borned. That cow is 11 years old and already had 10 calvings, from which were two sets of twins.
 
Holy crap 15 Months. That's impressive!! You just made me feel a lot better about breeding a 12 month old that'll be due in FEB. I'm sure I'll still have a lot of anxiety when the due date get closer. Both look great on that updated pic!!
 
torogmc81":lsb2pvje said:
Holy crap 15 Months. That's impressive!! You just made me feel a lot better about breeding a 12 month old that'll be due in FEB. I'm sure I'll still have a lot of anxiety when the due date get closer. Both look great on that updated pic!!
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Thanks. Yeah, we all were worrying about her when saw that calving is close. Our vet have never done c-section before, so we prayed that heifer will calve in natural way.
This calving showed that our Limousine bull is very easy calving, because this heifer got meal since weaning.
During each heifers calving I'm worrying abit, but when calves a full matured heifer it's much better. We calve our heifers at 26-33months depending from each heifers size at breeding.
 
New pics of both girls.
The cow. She's due to calve around Christmas. Doesn't have a calf now, so can grow more.
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And here's a young heifer. She's 13 months old now.
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Nice, I missed this thread the first time around, but it looks like she's doing a good job, I can certainly see the Limousin influence in the calf!
The grand-grand-grand-ma sounds like a good cow, I don't think I've had one yet... I do have a picture of the entire "Rosie" family which was 4 generations, and she just didn't quite make it for 5 generations.
 
The girl has her 2nd calf. Heifer calf again. Calved on her own. Came in the morning and saw that calf is already walking, so needed just to tag her.
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Photo taken the same day calf was born.
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The next day.

Interesting fact is that this newborn heifer is the 4th in this line having such white markings. Her dam and granddam( 75%limo,25%dairy) have simmilar, and grandgranddam( Limoxdairy) had very simmilar ones.
 
lithuanian farmer":7k0zxuog said:
During each heifers calving I'm worrying a bit,
We calve our heifers at 26-33 months depending from each heifers size at breeding.
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Has her success given you the confidence to shoot more for a 23-26 month calving age range rather than 30 months?
 
Thanks for posting pics. Real nice. I noticed in both sets of pics you are using step in posts to ration the forage. How often do you move the cows to fresh pasture? How many acres/Ha for ea. cow? Maybe describe your grazing system. ?
 
Son of Butch":16cwmkbn said:
lithuanian farmer":16cwmkbn said:
During each heifers calving I'm worrying a bit,
We calve our heifers at 26-33 months depending from each heifers size at breeding.
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Has her success given you the confidence to shoot more for a 23-26 month calving age range rather than 30 months?
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First they need to reach the size we want. She and another cow are exceptions. Earlier wanted that heifers were around 1100lbs at breeding time. Now the size we want has increased, because manage to grow them bigger at the same age. Now want around 1300lbs at breeding time. Better to grow them bigger, because even the big heifers not always calve easily, but it's easier to pull big calf than from the small one. Also we want big cows, as they usually rear bigger calves.
 
kickinbull":2hy9s6ep said:
Thanks for posting pics. Real nice. I noticed in both sets of pics you are using step in posts to ration the forage. How often do you move the cows to fresh pasture? How many acres/Ha for ea. cow? Maybe describe your grazing system. ?
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Now it'd be winter here. :) Usually have -15-20C temperature at thistime, but this year have +5-12C. Cows now are in their winter pasture with the shed, so are fed with hay.
Simple answer, we move cows to the new pasture when there are too little of grass in their resent pasture. Have ~180acres for our herd at the grazzing season, march-november. Separated into smaller fields. However some fields are used for moving too. Next year there gonna be ~40 cows with calves, bull and 4 heifers(two calving in late summer). All fields are natural, no sown ones. And there are some places, usually on the hills, where are almost no grass. Finish one field, move to another next to the old one, later to another. If the grass is already big enought in the earlier pasture, move to it. Try that all fields were grazzed while the grass is still young and green.
 

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