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Soapweed
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:05 pm    Post subject: Nice winter day Reply with quote

Home sweet home

Standing around soaking up the sunshine

Enjoying a winter morning

Oddly marked cow

Happy black bovines
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Good pictures, but where are the red cows? They must be out grazing already. Wink

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
lazy ace wrote:
Good pictures, but where are the red cows? They must be out grazing already. Wink

lazy ace


That would be my guess too. Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
lazy ace wrote:
Good pictures, but where are the red cows? They must be out grazing already. Wink

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They are on Saddletramp's end of the place, so he is feeding them cake and bull rushes. Speaking of the red cows, with our short hay supply, they could possibly be for sale. There are about 200 head, ages seven on up. They are good-sized Red Angus-Gelbvieh cross cows, bred to red Simmental bulls. They are a productive set of females, but there are no younger ones because I haven't kept any red heifer calves as replacements for several years. Their calves next fall will tip the scales pretty well.

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Soapweed wrote:
lazy ace wrote:
Good pictures, but where are the red cows? They must be out grazing already. Wink

lazy ace


They are on Saddletramp's end of the place, so he is feeding them cake and bull rushes. Speaking of the red cows, with our short hay supply, they could possibly be for sale. There are about 200 head, ages seven on up. They are good-sized Red Angus-Gelbvieh cross cows, bred to red Simmental bulls. They are a productive set of females, but there are no younger ones because I haven't kept any red heifer calves as replacements for several years. Their calves next fall will tip the scales pretty well.

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Quick, quick! Somebody buy them before he changes his mind! Shocked

Wink

If I had the money and hay, I'd be right down to pick them up Soap. Smile
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jinglebob wrote:
Soapweed wrote:
lazy ace wrote:
Good pictures, but where are the red cows? They must be out grazing already. Wink

lazy ace


They are on Saddletramp's end of the place, so he is feeding them cake and bull rushes. Speaking of the red cows, with our short hay supply, they could possibly be for sale. There are about 200 head, ages seven on up. They are good-sized Red Angus-Gelbvieh cross cows, bred to red Simmental bulls. They are a productive set of females, but there are no younger ones because I haven't kept any red heifer calves as replacements for several years. Their calves next fall will tip the scales pretty well.

Sorry, Macon. Send me a bill for advertising if you deem it necessary.


Quick, quick! Somebody buy them before he changes his mind! Shocked

Wink

If I had the money and hay, I'd be right down to pick them up Soap. Smile


They are nice cows, Jinglebob, but they would be too big to suit you. They don't have any horns either. Wink Smile
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Your stock looks to be in great shape as well Soapweed. I would have thought you might have more snow than appears in the pictures.

The sand hills with the snow on them (last picture) makes a very nice looking picture.

On the odd marked cow, we have one that is sort of simular. She is a coming two year old heifer. One day this fall, my wife and I were moving them, and she asks me where the longhorn heifer came from. I thought she was kidding, and then I saw the heifer for myself. A solid black heifer had lots of white flecks on one hip. I know for a fact that she was not that way the winter and spring before. I cannot figure out why she showed up that way as a yearling? And I am sure she is not longhorn. Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 10:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tap wrote:
Your stock looks to be in great shape as well Soapweed. I would have thought you might have more snow than appears in the pictures.

The sand hills with the snow on them (last picture) makes a very nice looking picture.

On the odd marked cow, we have one that is sort of simular. She is a coming two year old heifer. One day this fall, my wife and I were moving them, and she asks me where the longhorn heifer came from. I thought she was kidding, and then I saw the heifer for myself. A solid black heifer had lots of white flecks on one hip. I know for a fact that she was not that way the winter and spring before. I cannot figure out why she showed up that way as a yearling? And I am sure she is not longhorn. Wink


Oh that? Somebody just used too much bleach, the last time they washed her. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Angus cattle are noted for their birth marks.

In the formation of the breed 2 of the most used bulls were 'Grey Breasted Jock' and another with a large distinctive birth mark, his name has escaped my memory.

The first bull imported to Canada was named Jock and he had a prominent birth mark on the left hip. Some came to refer to those markings as a Jock marks.

Sometimes those birth marks don't show up until a cow or bull is a few years old, that would explain Tap's conundrum.

The other thing I have seen, is if a small pactch of skin is frozen it will lose pigment. I have had cattle that get a scratch or scar turn white right there just like a freeze brand after a cold spell.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Soapweed

Did you get my pm? I am attending the big cow sale in Burwell on friday so I may be out of the market by saturday
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 12:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
rees wrote:
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Did you get my pm? I am attending the big cow sale in Burwell on friday so I may be out of the market by saturday


The PM never came through for some reason. Check and see if it is in your outbox or in "sent". Possibly it went to the wrong person. I did that one time. Embarassed

PMs also need something on the subject line, or they don't go through.
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