Let's post photos of our cows!
 

Yes, it's possible to load pictures onto this site ... we've all talked about our homestead cows so much, I'd love to see pics of everybody's!

Here are my girls (Little Beefy, the steer, wandered out of this picture just before the shutter clicked! :( ) From L-R are Twister, Dawnna lying down with Libby-Belle standing behind her, and Christine. :)

http://mars.walagata.com/w/judy/Cows.JPG

Don't know how to upload pics? Really, it's not that hard! First, you'll need to register with a free website that will "store" your pics for you. I chose www.walagata.com because it was really quick and easy! Create an account and upload a pic from your hard drive. Then view the pic, right-click on it, and select 'properties'. Copy (Control+c) the URL (which will start http://mars.walgata.com ... etc.) and paste it into a message here on HT. Finally, highlight the URL and click on the 'picture' tab above, which is yellow with the outline of mountains and the sun! Voila!!!

Hey, NICE cows! I would love to post a picture of mine, but don't have a digital camera. I'm trying to borrow one from my SIL. In the meantime, I'll enjoy seeing everybody else's. Your Dawnna looks just like my old Mamma Cow.

Too late! :) "T-Bone" went to slaughter yesterday after having found the road last week!!! :no:

He was a whiteface cross steer who we would have liked to have grown just a litte heavier but...I'm sure he'll taste just fine! :D

It was sooooooooo nice to wakeup this morning and not be afraid to look at the pasture to see if he'd challanged the hot wire fence again! :eek:

Oh they are beautiful willowgirl :D . I look forward to getting some of my own some day.

It will take me a day or two but I'll dig up the digital camera and post them. Miss Millie will be delighted to show you how purty she is.

Good idea Willow

And...you can take "regular" pictures and have them developed to disk!

Pretty cows! Are you milking them all?

Now that "Home On The Range" is out on video, has anyone else seen it?! I adore the cows in it. It is a cute movie but, I think we homesteaders can really relate to some of the "attitudes" portrayed in it! :haha:

Beautiful creatures, Willow. I have a few pics on a digital camera that I was going to upload when selling my calf. I'll have to get them here first. I loved being able to see Twister. It's funny how you feel you know them after reading so much about them.

crossing my fingers to see if this works
http://mars.walagata.com/w/kestrel/MVC-025S.JPG
a few of the 'girls' and their babies.

Oh my Gosh! I did it! Obviously this picture was taken in the spring...May. Babies should weigh in around 525# about now...

Thanks ya'll! :)

Now, what kind of cows are those, Kes? Angus? and is the whitefaced one what they call a 'black baldie'? If so, what kind of cross is that?

I know ditley-squat about beef cattle! :haha:

LuckyG, did your steer get hit by a car?!?! :eek:

The neighbor's daughter was trying to 'herd' a stray cow (theirs not mine, thank goodness!) back to the pasture with the pick-up when she ran into it and broke its leg! Whoops! :o

They had to put it down ... into the freezer it went!

C'mon folks, don't be shy! Let's see those cows! :)

Ok, ok! The beeves in the picture are angus and angus/hereford cross. The one with white on her face we call brockel faced (not all white), notice her calf has a little speck of white on its nose!...she (the cow...well, really just turned 2year old with her 1st calf) is prbably 3/4 angus and 1/4 hereford...most of my cows are commercial black angus. All of my bulls are black angus. I really like what the angus breed does out here on this sage brush steppe/shortgrass prairie! (what you are lookin' at is honest to goodness the original native prairie that hasnt really changed much in hundreds of years! No introduced tame grasses in this rangeland.) This is the kind of beef that people eat in real fancy restaraunts!
Willow_girl, looks like you do lotsa milking! Do you milk by hand, use a milking machine or calves? Twister looks like she has a nice udder attachment. Nice cows!

Thanks for the beef cattle lesson, Kes!

I'm getting off easy in the milking department right now. I just dried Twister off, and Dawn and Christine are almost at the end of their cycles ... their calves will take all their milk if I let them! (Those little milk muggers really need to be weaned!)

I was late in getting these cows bred back so I'm going to have a few milkless months, I'm afraid, but I will have a stanchion system with Surge milkers set up by the time they freshen! No way am I milking all these beasts by hand!

Thank you for the compliments about Twister! I am told she was bred in Georgia and has a full brother who is in the A.I. program. (She is registered.) I'm hoping I can get some valuable heifer calves out of her, so she can earn her keep around here! ;)

Sadly, she hasn't really warmed up to us yet ... she's still very timid and doesn't want to be petted. :(

Dawn and Christine are great big lovebugs, though, especially Teeny who simply HAS to lick your hand (or rather, she sticks her pointy tongue out and just touches you very, very delicately with the tip ... she's a hoot! :D ).

Teeny's mother (who still lives on the farm where I work) gave birth to twin calves last weekend! ... unfortunately they were mixed (heifer & bull). :waa: My boss shipped them on Wednesday ... it was really hard for me to see the heifer go, she was SO CUTE!!!! (All white with black spots, and just the tips of her ears were black.) They were super nice calves, too -- just as big as single births, and healthy and playful! Teeny's mom is in her 4th lactation and is a pretty good cow, so even though she isn't registered, I'm hoping Teeny's offspring will be good girls, too. :)

Dawnna simply LIVES to poop in my husband's workshop (and the neighbor's garage!!!). We were letting her out to free-range in the yard but I have to go around first and make sure all the doors are shut. One day, she came up through the garage and pushed open the door that leads into the house! My husband found her standing in the doorway looking around, I'm pretty sure she would have strolled right in if there hadn't been a step there! :eek:

There are some great photos. I have not been able to get this to work for me. :confused: :confused:

I do think this was a good idea even if I can't make it work.

http://www.mullerslanefarm.com/bullcalf091004j.jpg Dolly and brand new bull calf, Duncan
http://www.mullerslanefarm.com/able03-04.jpgAble (r.i.p.) ancient Milking Devon ox
http://www.mullerslanefarm.com/calf1.jpg Lewis (angus steer calf)
http://www.mullerslanefarm.com/daisy.jpgDaisy, junior heifer
http://www.mullerslanefarm.com/festus.jpg Ooops, how did he get in there???

http://bantams.the-kozaks.com/Creamery/iris.JPG
This is Iris, my 5 year old registered Jersey cow.

http://bantams.the-kozaks.com/Creamery/mo.JPG
This is Mo, her calf born in January. He is a Jersey x Milking Shorthorn steer that I am training to be an ox. This photo was taken in July; now his horns are 5 inches long.

I'll give it a try.......

http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/...3585027273.jpg

Oh I'm so jealous you guys! :waa: I wanna have a cow. What's a farm without a cow. They are all so beautiful. Thanks for posting the pics.

More gorgeous cows!!!

Is Duncan a Milking Devon cross?

Iris is gorgeous!!! And what a beefy steer! :eek:

Pointer, what kind of cows are those?!

heres this years bulls...available for sale in a few months.
http://web2.airmail.net/dcs13/calves.jpg

My Cow
 

Ok, but my cow is kinda "out there".

http://www.foggybottomfarms.com/Images/Moopheus1.jpg

[QUOTE=willow_girl]
Is Duncan a Milking Devon cross?
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No, he is a Dexter cross. (and for sale)

Mo is gorgeous steer!!!

Here are Haggis' cows!

(He was having trouble uploading his photos, so I'm posting them on his behalf.) :)

Here's what he had to say about them:

The photo of the Devons was early this spring just after I got them. That's why they are so thin.

The Jerseys are Lucy and Dorsey. Dorsey is the smaller light colored one.

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-9/840504/H1.JPG

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-9/840504/H2.JPG

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-9/840504/H3.JPG

I tried to sign up to that freebie web hosting thing, but they don't have any available spots right now, so will have to post pictures later.
I've got one of our calves that were born this year, we had four newbies, but this one is special because mom rejected it and we had to bottle and bucket feed it from day one, She is about four months old now but the picture is at two weeks.
And she is perfect if I do say so myself. :)

We're getting selling out our small Limosin/Simmental herd and getting into Dexters. Here's some pix of the first couple, we've had them for about a month now.

Honey is about 7 year old. Reggie is a 6-month old bull...we're planning for him to be our first herd bull.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/goosebeg/album?.dir=905a

I think I set the album up so anyone can view....let me know if you can't.

Willow, the cow is 3/4 Beefmaster 1/4 Hereford and the calf is from her and a Simmital (sp?) bull.

http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/1d2e4...6E6WBBRbPVZBhx

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v465/Beefree/bull.jpg


This was our Angus Bull. He got so large we had to sell him because the cows were objecting. He was a big pet. We raised him from about 600# He weighed 2500# when he was sold. Hope my pic comes through.

Finally went to another site and got it to work. :yeeha:

Ok What am I doing wrong in posting pictures? Help

OH MY GOODNESS....NO!!!!

We sent him off to slaughter as to not give him another chance to test the hot wire and escape!! I should call the butcher today and see if he's ready to come back home! Mmmmmmmm MMmmmmmmmm Gooooood! :D

Okay, Everyone,

I have this semi whooped. Here are the URLs for pics that aren't thumbnails. Thanks for being patient.

http://jupiter.walagata.com/w/craynsford/P1010038.jpg

http://jupiter.walagata.com/w/craynsford/P1010037.jpg

http://jupiter.walagata.com/w/craynsford/P1010035.jpg

edit your message and look above the message (where you can Bold, etc... See the icon with a mountain on it?? That's the picture icon. Highlight your url and click the picture icon.

My wee beasties
 

http://jupiter.walagata.com/_thumbs/...n_Chicken1.jpg
http://jupiter.walagata.com/_thumbs/...n_Chicken2.jpg
http://jupiter.walagata.com/_thumbs/...n_Hpim0628.jpg
http://jupiter.walagata.com/_thumbs/...nd_Orlando.jpg
These are my Highland wee beasties.
The first picture is of Mr Tallman, who now resides in our freezer. Feb 04
The 2nd picture is of Beth, in back, her calf Nigel with tail to camera, and Mr Tallman on the right. Feb 04
Third picture, left to right, Mr Tallman, Nigel, and Beth. Dec 03
Fourth picture, Beth and Orlando, May 04. Beth has had her feet trimmed since then.

Let's try this again.
 

I need to get better glasses so I can read the URL's better. I hope this works.
These are my Highland wee beasties.


http://jupiter.walagata.com/view.php?file=Chicken1.jpg

Mr Tallman, who now resides in our freezer. Feb 04

http://jupiter.walagata.com/view.php?file=Chicken2.jpg

Beth, in back, her calf Nigel with tail to camera, and Mr Tallman on the right. Feb 04

http://jupiter.walagata.com/view.php?file=Hpim0628.jpg

Left to right, Mr Tallman, Nigel, and Beth. Dec 03

http://jupiter.walagata.com/view.php...nd_Orlando.jpg

Beth and Orlando, May 04. Beth has had her feet trimmed since then.

Christiaan, your links take me to a member login page.

I'll try to figure out what went wrong and repost ASAP.

These are my Highland wee beasties.
 

These are my Highland wee beasties.


http://jupiter.walagata.com/w/christiaan/Chicken1.jpg

Mr Tallman, who now resides in our freezer. Feb 04

http://jupiter.walagata.com/w/christiaan/Chicken2.jpg

Beth, in back, her calf Nigel with tail to camera, and Mr Tallman on the right. Feb 04

http://jupiter.walagata.com/w/christiaan/Hpim0628.jpg

Left to right, Mr Tallman, Nigel, and Beth. Dec 03

http://jupiter.walagata.com/w/christ...nd_Orlando.jpg

Beth and Orlando, May 04. Beth has had her feet trimmed since then.

Good Morning,

The only icons I have above my message box are the message icons (a piece of paper, an arrow, lightbulb, faces, and thumbs up and down icons). I don't have something for Bold, picture etc. Maybe my computer isn't picking up the entire website capabilities. Those highlands are something else!!!

Christina, your calf is so darned cute!!!!!!

I'd like to thank everyone for not making any comments about my size as compared to that of the 1000 pound cow I'm milking in the photo.

My Grand-Darlings are not so kind when reminding me how small my cattle are. ;)

I didn't notice when you posted the pics .... but now that you mentioned it ....... :D

Herself has alleged that I didn't show a lot of interest in Dexters because I didn't want a cow that was smaller than me.