Livestock/General Farming photo thread TAKE #2 ::::RULES IN 1st POST::::

Not a new picture.
But the boy holding the Cob gave a copy of the photo to my father lately, who's standing on the working Cob, posing for the camera.

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

April born ch bull calf out of a lim x sh cow. Calved without assistance . If I could get them all like that now I'd be in business.

Cracking animal. About 20 of them every year would be nice!

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Super calf, keep using that bull
What’s he by?

Carrickbrack hutch.

February bull. Definitely one of my better ones

Another February born heifer out of a very plain black lim x Hereford cow.

ZAG pbr Lim heifer. In calf to On-Dit, fingers crossed.

50HX wrote: »

What age is she patsy?

Have a yearling zag x but v butty

27 months. Mother is very muscley and wide so she brings some bit of size from her. ZAG does breed butty alright.

funkey_monkey wrote: »

Got a cow that has a few cuts on her teat from the calf sucking her.
The cuts are now attracting the flies.

Is there anything I can do for her as I can see they are irritating her.

Have a cow the very same here, I'm putting Bepanthen antiseptic cream on he teat each morning, followed by tar spray. Luckily mine is quiet & just lets me do as I like with a handful of nuts on the ground in front of her. Looks a good bit better this evening, though that could be to do with the wet weather/less flies around today.

This is a still out of a video so probably not the best pic of her, but the heifer I put incalf to Glacon. Seemingly incalf anyway, no budge after 19-21 days & she'd almost mount me the month before.
And yes, she had got copper, just later than the rest. :pac:

Base price wrote: »

Bull calf born last night out of the red shorthorn, unassisted and up sucking by itself, by SH4319.

Great calf
Is the other heifer you bought at the time in calf too?

Base price wrote: »

She calved mid April this year by a runt of a cnut of a AAx seven month old weanling that got to her. She had a healthy heifer calf but it wasn't anything to write home about but it's shaping up nicely now.

I posted a pic of her as a calf (can't find it now) and I will take a pic of her in the next few days and post it.

She might turn out a lucky one
I had a pedigree heifer entered into a premier sale a few years ago, I was clipping her one evening and was standing back admiring her and I thought jesus she doesn't look like a VIO
heifer. Decided to get her DNA tested and low and behold my doubts were true. She was 100% simmental but not out of vio, even though the calving date correspond with ai date.
So one of the weanlings must have bulled her after I ai d her even though all were under 7 months at the time and the cow was a big 900kg tank.
I kept her and shes one of the best cows in the place now but thank the lord she wasn't sold.
Wouldn't sell a pedigree animal now without DNA testing now

Lovely stock & a great sheltered field in the top group of older weanlings.
That MZT should come yet, cow is a Salers, is she? Have a March born Bivouac heifer out of a Salers heifer here and was average enough looking til the last 3 weeks or so.