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Two bull calves born yesterday from a herd bull and one heifer born today from AI. Quite interesting result so far. Bull's calves- 3 bulls, 1 heifer. AI- 7 heifers, 1 bull. As always used am-pm rule, bred on natural heats 🤔
Today's heifer, 289 days gestation, around 30kg.
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Cattle love a nice sunny day without wind even if it's colder. Seen small calves running around the field with their tails high up on a nice day at - 15C°. Strong wind, mud, rain or snow is actually what isn't nice for them. Not bothered by cold alone though. Just a pic from last year. Calves enjoy days like that.
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They are far from starved 😅 our grazing season starts around the first half of May in good years, but for the past couple years it started at the end of May. While there are still freezing temperature there won't be much of grass growth.
A pic from last year. Taken on the 12th of May.
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Have a special heifer born today. From a 10years old cow, which is in the top5 best performing herd cows. She only had a heifer once- died at birth unfortunatelly. Well, finally, another heifer was born from her. 287days gestation, around 50kg (will weigh abit later), sired by VRB bull.
The last pic of the sire.
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Heifer pen got some action yesterday. The first heifer calved a charolais sired bull calf. Very quick and easy calving. 276 days gestation, around 40kg calf. Heifer herself is sired by Tweeddale Lookout, out of limxcharx cow. Nice to see that milk has been improved abit.
Next calves from heifers are due on 12th and 14th. Calves will be by Tweeddale Lennox and Tomschoice Onslow.
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Tweeddale Lookout is the sire of the cow, but not the calf. Had several calves from Lookout. Most bulls were 50+kg, heaviest being 64kg. Heaviest heifer was from 3/4 char cow- 53kg, all other were in 37-45kg range. Most born unassisted, but had a couple abit too big for their moms to calve alone. Good growth rates though. Leaving his daughters with a hope that they'll be good calvers and milkers as his numbers suggest. So far seems good. Will have one more his daughter calving with a lim calf after a good month.
Heifer did calve her calf herself. Very quickly too. Has bigger udder than her dam had at her first calving.
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Had the heifer's calf go sick four days ago. Finally, today saw him nurse and he is feeling much better.
Had another strong big heifer born today. From a previous limousine herd bull, cow is limxcharx, dam of the white first calver. 287days gestation, but heifer should be easily hitting 50kg.
Have a simx heifer from the same cow for AI this year.
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It's getting warmer and greener every day. Still get some frost during the night, so grass can't grow fast.
Had some hard day yesterday. First saw cows attacking a beaver, which decided to walk in their pasture. After all of the commotion saw that one of the cows started showing signs of belly pain. After closer inspection it appeared that she had a ruptured peritoneum and her intestines were out.
The worst part is that she still had 21 days until her due date. Plus she was due only with her second calf.
Decided to do a c-section and try to fix her peritoneum.
The whole procedure took almost 6hours.
Most of her intestines were out. The hole actually wasn't big.
The calf is very decent size for her gestation. Teeth aren't fully formed, but already there. She's sleeping almost all the time, sometimes waking up for a couple minutes.
The cow is doing pretty decent. Eating and drinking. Has a lot of fluids in the cavity left by intestines. Walking around her pen abit.
Also had a heifer calving yesterday in the evening. Some assistance with a jack, but both were bright and doing well right after birth.
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Unfortunatelly, both calf and cow passed away. Calf yesterday. She has vomited all of the colostrum we gave her, so her stomack most likely wasn't working, wasn't passing any stool. She was sleeping almost all the time, walking up for a couple minutes and then back to sleep. Not walking, just lifting her head and bawling abit. The cow passed away this night. She wasn't defecating, so there was something wrong inside.
The calf is by Tweeddale Lennox. Weighed yesterday, 54kg. Luckily not much of muscles.
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Got the first group of cows out on grass yesterday. Very cold spring, so not much of grass growth.
Let out cows with calves at foot (except three recently calved) and all due by the end of June. Those three, first calf heifers and cows due past the end of June will be another group. Going to move them on grass soon too, but first they had to spend a couple days together as just let first calf heifers in to the cows pasture.
The fourth day with a cow calving. Today had a heifer calved. Heifer is sired by Tweeddale Lookout and the calf is by Tomschoice Onslow. 275 days gestation, small heifer calf. First calver's dam just had a simmentalx heifer two days ago.
Have this bluex heifer incalf to Tweeddale Lennox and due on the 28th.
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Hay season should start pretty soon. Finally got rain and warmth, so it really is noticable in grass growth.
Yesterday's photo of one of the first fields, which will be cut soon.
Been quite busy for the past couple days. Three calves in two days. Two calves by Tomschoice Onslow from limx cows, bull and heifer, 285 and 283 days gestations. One heifer calf sired by Tweeddale Lennox, 282 days gestation, out of bluexlimx heifer.
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Abit of some new blood in the herd. The first Inra95 cross heifer just calved this evening. Small Lennox sired bull calf, 278 days gestation. Have three bulling heifers from the same sire, but have to decide first which will be kept. Second photo is with calved heifer, when she was weanling. She was raised by her adoptive mother. Her own dam didn't have enough of milk to raise her. Possibly some hormonal inbalance as she did a good job with two calves before this one and again raised a very good calf following year.
To my surprise heifer and her adoptive mother met almost two weeks ago and kept each others company since then. The cow herself has two biological daughters in the herd, but no such relationship with them. The third photo is heifer with her adoptive mother this morning.
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