Some Cows and Some Calves (pics)

[randiliana]

Took some photos over the last few days of the cows. Here you go.

Took salt out to one pasture. There are 21 pair here, and they certainly like their salt, they had been out for about 2 weeks.

First one there, man, this is good stuff


Uh oh, better hurry up


Git, this is MINE!!


Slightly outnumbered


The red calf belongs to the red cow in the very first photo


I think, that I like this girl


Short grass prairie


Another sweetheart

[randiliana]

My very favorite heifer calf


And, some steers, they are all in that 600 lb range now.

I LOVE the one with the red spot around it's eye!!

Good looking cattle there!

[randiliana]

Thank you, Tonya

[RosewoodfarmVA]

Is the pasture that brown and short because your'e in a drought or has winter already set in way up there? Just confused because around here grass is growing steadily and is lush and green! I've never been way up north so can't figure out what's going on!

Oh, love the reds! Beautiful coloring...

[bruce2288]

Nice looking calves. When I was in manitoba I saw blue salt blocks like that. Is that copper added?

[ozark_jewels]

Around here the blue blocks are cobalt.

Nice lookin' calves!!

[randiliana]

Thanks, guys. The salt blocks are simply cobalt salt.

Rosewood, we aren't in a drought, just typical summer weather here. Not much rain and lots of heat. The grass was pretty nice and green up til a couple weeks ago, that is pretty good for us.

[bruce2288]

Do you have some big hog mule deer sharing the pasture?

[randiliana]

Yes, we do. Haven't seen much of them this year.

A few from this spring




And some from last spring

[LibertyWool]

I'm curious about the hay in the field with the deer. It looks like strips of grass were left in-between each row that was bailed. What is the purpose of that?

[randiliana]

They are called windrows. The idea is that they will hold snow on the field better, and result in better hay crops. I don't really think it makes a difference, but the owners do.

[bruce2288]

I am envious. I love to hunt them big mule deer. I do love that wide-open hill country. When do you sell your calves?

[LibertyWool]

Randiliana,

Thanks! That is interesting...

[randiliana]

Bruce, we usually sell in October. Haven't decided exactly when yet. We will probably wait for our cows to come home out of the community pasture before we sell anything this year.

You're welcome Liberty.

[theporkstork]

For my 2 cents worth, I like the red heifer in the 7th picture standing to the far upper right. Really great topline, long sided, and deep muscular body. She looks like she could be a purebred Red Angus. You have a really great looking herd of cows! Very evident that you have "studied your lesson" well! Thanks for sharing!!!!!

[randiliana]

Thank you, we work hard on our cow herd. They pay the bills around here, so they have to be good.

That heifer is quite a little heifer, she has really grown out well, from where she started. And, there is a bit of a story about her. Here mama was a calf that we 'stole' (mama had mastitis and a bad bag so was culled) then she was raised on our Nurse cow. She then got bred by her sire (accident), which we didn't realize til this spring. That calf was 55 lbs when it was born, which is 25-30 lbs lighter than what we like them to be. We had kinda written her off to sell in the fall, but she has really grown well, and looks really really good now, she will probably go into our replacement pen this fall. Oh, and she is about as cross bred as she can get, a little shorthorn, a little angus, a little simmi and whou knows what else!!

Mama

[theporkstork]

Well, that surely fooled me!I would take it that Mama has Shorthorn because of her blue roan coloring. No matter what her breeding is, I'd be very proud to be the owner of a heifer like her. Will she be bred to an Angus bull? Are your whitefaced calves out of a Hereford, Simmetal, or Crossed/mixed breed bull? I really like the frame size on your cows! Good, hardy looking animals!

[randiliana]

Yes, she would have to have some Shorthorn in her, no idea how much though. Her mama was a blue roan, hereford marked cow, and sire was Simm/Angus. This year she will be bred Simm/Angus again. Most white faced calves are either out of a Herford bull, or their mamas are white faced cows.

Thanks, I am pretty happy with the frame of our cows, they are not real huge cows, yet they are raising calves in the high 500's to mid 600's for the most part, even the heifers. We weighed a few cows this summer, they averaged about 1430 lbs, which rather surprised me.

[goatrancher0129]

i like the one with the #54 ear tag. Nice lookin steer. i want to raise one for 4h soon