HC Minis - new pics pg 172

[AnnaC]

Oooooo baby moos!! Dont forget the pictures!!

 

[chandab]

We only have like 6 right now, including the one in the tub that isn't doing very well. Will try to get pictures after we have a few more.

 

[chandab]

We don't know and it didn't. It's not that cold, but too cold for that one. Sometimes they are just deadheads, kind of like dummy foals. There used to be a shot available that would really wake them up, but it was taken off the market; our former vet (he moved) was really disappointed when they stopped making it.

 

[chandab]

Der... Forgot to chain the gate again, so the girls were out, although this time they didn't go far, as they were eating on the yummy hay bale right outside the gate and they came right back in for supper and a bonus scoop of hay pellets.

 

[chandab]

Oh, and the cows finally decided to start calving a bit more, we are up to 15 calves now. I'll try to remember to get a picture one of these next few days, but tomorrow I'm off to town for lunch with Mom, so not tomorrow.

 

[lkblazin]

Wow those ladies have been working hard giving you 15

. Good to know the girls came back in

 

[Kim P]

That is a whole bunch of babies ! Glad the girls did not go far! Have fun with your mom!

 

[chandab]

Kim it's just a drop in the bucket for our calves, we raise them for a living, so have a decent sized herd. We've just started calving, we'll be at it for about a month.

 

[Kim P]

I am not a farmer so it sounds like you just got a whole new herd. So how many adult cows excluding the mamas? Well just tell me how many cows you have.

 

[chandab]

Lots. We raise them as a living.

These are some bum calves from a couple years ago.



Pair from a couple years ago



This picture is older, but since we raise Red AngusX cattle, they pretty much always look like this.



It snowed last night, more so in town, and it's windy now, so no current pictures.

 

[lkblazin]

Nice sized heard. Very cute calves. I love Jerseys, but I guess they can have personality issues?

 

[Kim P]

Awesome! But what do you mean by bum calves? They looked good to me.

 

[Ryan Johnson]

I was thinking the same thing.... cause here a bum is also something you sit on (your backside)

How many acres are you on Chanda,? they look like massive paddocks.

Im going to have a guess at what a bum cow is................ Is it like what we call a potty calf ? Hand raised ?

 

[chandab]

Yes, Ryan, a bum calf is hand raised for whatever reason. I'm pretty sure all pictures are just different views if the same pasture here at home, it's 80 acres. The rest of our pasture is a couple miles up the road.

 

[Kim P]

I believe that my mother in law raised that breed of cows. She kept most of hers as pets. Named all of them. I think she had around 20. I know that she had a beautiful, huge, sweet, red bull that I thought was attacking my son when he was about 4 or 5. I took off running to try and save my son. It was like a dream. I was running as fast as I could and screaming at my son to run as the bull is headed straight to him. I fall down. Look up and see the bull hit the dirt in the garden and start rolling. He had a bee or something stinging him and he had been trying to get it off. I will never forget the terror I felt over what I thought was happening! My husband just looked at me like what are you doing crazy lady.

 

[chandab]

Diane,

I'm going to try to breed a couple mares this year, Tana being one of them. It'll be interesting to see how well she can hide the second one; she sure hid that first one well.

For those that have missed these pictures. Here are pictures of Tana on the same day, that I didn't realize I had taken them both that day til a few months later.

Tana first thing in the morning:





Tana right after lunch:

 

[Ryan Johnson]

Sounds Exciting Chanda, Looking forward to some HC mini babies next year

Tana is such a pretty mare & certainly hid her first baby well.

 

[chandab]

Thank you, Ryan. I loved Tana's mom so much, that I practically bought Tana before she was born. Tana's dam was a lovely buckskin dun; Tana's sire a silver leopard appy. Tana is silver bay dun with characteristics (and at 9

years old is just starting to snowflake, I think).

 

[MyGoldenSunny]

She is gorgeous!!!

 

[Lepeppylass]

Oh I can't wait to see if she hides the second as well as the first, she is so pretty!