Just some pictures from today

[Karen in Alabam]

Bones is starting to get a little big for his britches.



Charlie

[Jan in CO]

Ah, you make me miss cows! Wish the weather would straighten up so we had better pasture!

[Karin L]

Love the char pic. As for the top one, either that or else the cow's going in heat.

[gone-a-milkin]

Is that the char calf that Yo raised?

Agree that your little Bones is likely telling you evrything you need to know.


Nice looking cattle. Keep up the good work!

[Murray in ME]

Great pictures. Thanks for sharing them.

[6e]

I can't believe you have green grass! I am SO envious! LOL Nice pictures though. Charlie is beautiful!

[francismilker]

Karen, is that an Ayrshire or guernsey in the pic?

[Karen in Alabam]

Thanks

Bones is getting a little big for his britches, as for Sissy the cow he is trying to jump--she is due to calf in a few weeks. We picked her up in December, and finally her bag is getting big. We took her to the vet when be brought her home, and he thought he bag was a little small for being 6 months, but he confirmed that she was that far along. Sissy is Jersey/Guernsey and 3 years old.

Charlie is the calf that Yo refused to raise. She was my first bottle calf--that was a very stressful first days with her--we kept her on the bottle for 7 months--she is a moose, but not very tall. We thought she would get a lot bigger. She 17 months old now. Yo also is bred, about 3 months now. She calved in March and I didn't think she would ever get bred--that bull that we thought wasn't doing anything is in my sister's freezer now. And Lucy our angus is also ready to pop--she had been fat for a year--didn't think she was bred either--but her bag tells me otherwise.

It has been in the 60s here--lots of rain. That green is winter rye. Our weather will be 60 one day or for a stretch then 40 or so then back up again. We do get in the 20s at night--sometimes.

[G. Seddon]

Great photos, as usual!

[DJ in WA]

Gotta say I'm alittle disappointed in this thread - only two photos? Surely you have more!

Don't see a Guernsey/Jersey everyday, or any Guernsey for that matter.

The Guernsey brings back memories. My dad in the 50's ran a milk gathering route with a 48 international truck and a van on it to put the milk cans in.

In March of 1969 when I was age 9, he loaded up the family (7 kids) Jed Clampett style, and hauled everything from southern Idaho, to Northern Washington. The old truck, and a Rambler with a Uhaul. It's 12 hours now by car, probably took us 15 or 20 hours. He built a stall in the back of the milk-hauling van to put our Guernsey cow in. Washington had record snow that year, so I remember the cow jumping out of the truck into a snow bank. She calved a week or two later.

I recall the milk as more yellow or orange tint to it.

[Karen in Alabam]

Of course I have more pictures, but they are on the Chicken forum.

Down here, Guernseys and Brown Swiss are pretty rare too. This used to be big dairy country, now the ones I know about are over an hour away. My Vet and his wife, were both dairy farmers in the area-so I lucked out, he takes good care of me, because he loves Guernseys and Jerseys, and thankfully he is half a mile away.

One set of my grandparents retired and moved to KY and bought a farm. We didn't see them much (as we were 16 hours away), and so I didn't get any training from them, but I guess I got the bug from them. Also grew up across the street from my Great Grandparent's farm--but the people that lived there just had horses and rabbits.

[Karen in Alabam]

I did have this one. I like it, not sure how you guys would take it, but on the family cow, they seemed to like it

[DJ in WA]

That is a neat photo. I might send that to my daughters and ask them what it's from. Lots of ladies would love to have locks that beautiful.

Amazing what a good camera and eye can do to an otherwise boring subject.

[Karin L]

Abstract art! Or photography, rather...