My cows were bred today!!!

uncle Will in In. · #21 10/17/04, 07:17 PM

Willow, that's what I just said. If she don't have a holstein calf, she should have a HALFSTEIN calf.

willow_girl · #22 10/18/04, 02:55 AM

OK, NOW I get it! :haha:

uncle Will in In. · #23 10/18/04, 04:58 AM

Or maybe a JERSTEIN or a HOLGUS?
A few farmers around here buy day old holstein heifers. They grow them up and breed them. When they are close to freshening they sell them. Many of them breed to angus bulls for calving ease.
Topeka auction barn (Indiana) sells several of these springing heifers every week. The prices they and the other cattle go for is listed in a weekly farm paper that is printed near there. The top springing heifers were selling for up to $2000 last spring.

doc623 · #24 10/18/04, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by willow_girl

Sorry if that was confusing!
OK, here's the scoop: Teeny is 100 percent Holstein.
I bred her (AI) with Holstein semen = 100 percent Holstein calf if that mating was successful.
My boss bred her (AI) with Jersey semen = 50-50 calf if he's the one who fertilized her egg.
She is going across the road with the neighbor's bull (if it ever quits RAINING!) so if the AI was unsuccessful, the neighbor's Angus will undoubtedly take a poke at her during her next cycle. (Hey, any calf is better than none at all, right?!)

I'm really hoping the Jersey bull, Beretta, did the job ... I really like Jerseys, and she had a rough time calving the first time around and a Jersey X calf probably will be smaller than straight Holstein!

Here's Teeny with her foster calf, Little Beefy (this was taken at the end of August, so LB would have been about 2 months old):

She should not have as tough time calving this go around if the holstein bull
isn't that big or has a history of very large calves.

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Did you know that when AI is done if the sperm are deposited backward or facing out that they will swim the wrong way and conception will not take place.
However is they are deposited pointing toward the uterus or the head of the cow that conception is more likely to occur. And further more iif the sperm swim up the right horn or the uterus and that is the overy that is active that it will produce a heifer calf and if the sperm migrate up the left uterine horn to an active left ovary; this will result in a bull calf.

Did you know that?

Well since have added humor - well

landlord · #25 10/21/04, 02:49 PM

:haha: :haha:

Ok, here goes, Willow... The horse says" just checking willow, sniff sniff, to see what mouth wash you used today, orange or mint?? :haha:

The cow saying to her calf, " I know, I know, just be patient , Little Beefy, she will be gone in a minute. I still don't know what she is doing with that little contraption either." :haha:

willow_girl · #26 10/21/04, 06:52 PM

:haha: It does look like Teeny is saying something, doesn't it?!

And she probably was! She is the most talkative cow I've ever seen. As soon as she lays eyes on us, she starts bellering for grain. Sooooo spoiled!

Honey (the horse) was probably checking for a Hall's cherry cough drop on my breath ... my husband is addicted to the things, and gives them to all our critters as treats. Honey eats them wrapper and all!

landlord · #27 10/22/04, 05:59 AM

Willow, what breed is Little Beefy?

willow_girl · #28 10/22/04, 02:28 PM

Dang, Landlord, I wish I knew! Maybe I should start a separate thread and someone could tell us.

I got him at the sale barn when he was a day or two old. The auctioneer called him "one-a-them mixed-breed calves." He was BROWN and small, only 70 lbs. In fact he was the smallest and scrawniest calf there, but of course I bought him anyway, despite my fears about getting a sale-barn calf to begin with because it might not be healthy. But, well, I felt sorry for the little guy, and he sold for only $75/cwt on a day when Holstein steers were selling for nearly twice that much! (I think he was low-rated because people assumed he was a Jersey cross, because of his color.)

To my good fortune, he turned out to be a tough and scrappy little feller, and hung in there despite Teeny clocking him in the head every time he tried to nurse for the first couple days. :no:

So, anyone care to venture a guess as to what Little Beefy is?

BTW he's all black now, except for a white patch the size of the palm of my hand on his belly. Here are a couple pics, the first was taken on the day we got him (end of June) and the second shows him today (no he isn't weaned yet!

). As you can see, he has more than caught up in size to my Jersey-cross calf (don't know for sure what she's crossed with, either!) on the right (she is 2 months older than he is).

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dosthouhavemilk · #29 11/08/04, 01:53 PM

Berretta is a very good Jersey bull.

If "little beefy" has Jersey in him he ought to have a brown stripe down his back. I can't remember if Spitfire did or not though. We have used Angus as clean up bulls and we actually kept a Jerangus heifer out of our 13 year old (she was retired). Spitfire was kept around until she hit about 9 months or so. We thought we were going to need her (two keepable Jersey heifers in two years) but our crossbred replacement heifers were numbering 12 at that point. No more need for her. I don't know if she ended up with the stripe or not. There is a photo of her as a calf here:

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/skylar...&.dnm=cb51.jpg

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She was a lot lighter than yours. The face doesn't look all that Jersey.

I dunno.

Was AIing very difficult? I feel like I should go ahead and learn how to AI. There are times when Don hasn't been able to make it out to AI and if he does it is a little late. We have semen from our bull Pearl (he was breeding long before I was able to toddle around) that I could use while practicing. He dropped 17 heifers (all the way to "Q") here.