Never sex calves in the dark.....

mamalisa · #1 09/14/05, 10:37 AM

When the new calf was born, it was 5 am, dark as pitch. I've never seen a newborn calf before....so under I reach, find a furry thing and decide....OK, a boy.

Wrong!!!

It's a girl! Little Jersey heifer calf......

so now I get to look REALLY stupid.

Ken Scharabok · #2 09/14/05, 10:50 AM

Join the crowd. Had a black bull born in the late evening. Next day cow had a brown heifer with her. Guess I didn't look all that closely either.

DrippingSprings · #3 09/14/05, 12:29 PM

Dont feel bad. I had a nephew come to stay the summer that was amazed when we were handling some of the roosters. He saw that I would put my hand between the legs and acrry them kinda like a football. They were calm like this. He tried holding them with both hands held in front of his body. This made the roosters upset and they would struggle. Finally after about the 50th rooster I asked why he was afraid to hold them near him? He said he wasnt scared. He also said he wasnt gonna put the roosters privates in the palm of his hand to hold them like me. I promptly told him to tilt the rooster forward. As soon as the tail feathers flipped up I explained that what you see is pretty much all they got. He was under the assumption that roosters between their legs looked like he did between the legs. Sometimes I am sitting watching the chickens peck and I suddenly visualize all these roosters strutting around looking like John Holmes lololo

My sister was getting a rear view of a big ol bull at the fair one year when she was five and she said really loud"daddy look at those big boobs on those cows"

lilsassafrass · #4 09/14/05, 11:02 PM

So earlier in august had a black highland bull calf born ... sure looked like a bull calf , thought it had all the right parts .. wasnt i suprised (after already sending in my entries to two fairs with him entered in teh jr bull calf classes ) when I brought him and his momma up for conditioning to go .. that I should have entered him in the jr heifer classes ....
you would think after all these years ......
P hyde
Hyde Park Farm

RdoubleD · #5 09/15/05, 12:01 PM

It happened to me also. This calf was born in the late hours, I was on a streek of heifers, of course that happens when you only want bulls, anyway I checked this calf to be a heifer, the next day I had the vet out for the cow

and was holding the calf and noticed some yellow stuff streaming from the umbilitcle cord thought wow I do not remember seeing that before on any of my other calves, (it amazing what you think when you are tierd) that was as much thought that I put into it. The vet left all was good. That night I was feeding the critters and noticed something hanging from between this calfs legs, Dah!

it was a boy and thats why it had yellow stuff earlier in the day. I had complained to all my friends that I got another sticking heifer, not one bull calf this year, ect, I had to eat some you know what when I told them it was really a bull.

JeffNY · #6 09/15/05, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by RdoubleD

It happened to me also. This calf was born in the late hours, I was on a streek of heifers, of course that happens when you only want bulls, anyway I checked this calf to be a heifer, the next day I had the vet out for the cow

and was holding the calf and noticed some yellow stuff streaming from the umbilitcle cord thought wow I do not remember seeing that before on any of my other calves, (it amazing what you think when you are tierd) that was as much thought that I put into it. The vet left all was good. That night I was feeding the critters and noticed something hanging from between this calfs legs, Dah!

it was a boy and thats why it had yellow stuff earlier in the day. I had complained to all my friends that I got another sticking heifer, not one bull calf this year, ect, I had to eat some you know what when I told them it was really a bull.

IT SPRUNG A LEAK! HURRY, PATCH IT

. J/k. Sexing animals if you dont have a light could trick ya. But usually a detailed examination can reveal whether it is a heifer or bull calf. I usually carry a flash light so I can see, especially in a pasture. Last spring when we had one born backwards, well I had to assist. I was able to figure that one out as soon as it was being born. Was a good sight, we were heaving many bulls, and finally a heifer!

But that chicken story was funny, would give a whole new meaning to %#%@, slang for rooster..

Jeff

Pyrenees · #7 09/15/05, 10:44 PM

When I was a senior in vet school I was on farm with a prof doing preg checks. After about the first 50 cows your brain pretty much turns off when your doing palpations in large quantity. I was working my way down the row and came to one that didn't seem to have a uterus. I fumbled around for a few seconds then got the bright idea to look below...and yes I had my arm up the backside of a steer that the farmer had thrown in the lineup just for fun.

The guy giggled a little, but said I was definetly an improvement on the student from the week before who had called the steer 5 months pregnant.

Christiaan · #8 09/21/05, 12:45 AM

My Highland cow doesn't like me to get too close to the newborns so this year it took me two days to decide that what I saw is what I wanted to see. The cow had only delivered bulls, but this one sure looked like a girl but I just couldn't be sure from fifteen feet away. It wasn't until the next day when I saw that yellow discharge coming from beneath the tail that I decided I had finally gotten my girl. We farmer's may be stalwart and realists, but we sure can be nervous nellies when it comes to our beasts.