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A trip around the cows.

Tap

Well-known member
We have been looking at our late calving herd every once in a while, and a few days ago we noticed that a three year old cow was trying to steal the calf from another three year old cow. As these cows are calving in a large pasture we thought that if we separated them and moved them apart the "granny" may not find the calf that she was so taken with. But alas, some good plans are bound to fail, and she was with the calf again the day before yesterday. So yesterday I decided to make a trip around the cows and put the correct pair, and a few other pairs (for company) in a separate pasture.

A group of pairs. In a large pasture they seem to separate from the heavy cows. Sometimes they separate by age of calf also.

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A couple new ones off of home raised cows in this bunch. They are really calving. The due date should have been around the 23rd of April, and they are already 25% calved out.
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Had to take time to notice a few of natures creations on the way by.

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Some old, some new.

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Reminds me of the John Wayne movie The Searchers.

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Could carve out our own version of Mt. Rushmore here. :wink:

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Who is watching who????

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Here is the "right" pair. Moving her toward the gate.

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Finished going around them. The trailer is in sight now.

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Moving bulls just before the day was done.

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Soapweed

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Very nice photos, Tap. You live in quite a picturesque part of the country. Was all that hay put up in the valley where it sits? :wink: Looks like a lot of bull power of the right kind. Thanks for posting.
 

lazy ace

Well-known member
Tap good pictures it sure looks like you had a good grass year last year. The calves look good with all the old grass surrounding them. I sure like last years branding pictures the best. :wink: There was a lot of natural talent there. :D :D

have a cold one

lazy ace
 

Tap

Well-known member
lazy ace said:
Tap good pictures it sure looks like you had a good grass year last year. The calves look good with all the old grass surrounding them. I sure like last years branding pictures the best. :wink: There was a lot of natural talent there. :D :D

have a cold one

lazy ace

I catch your drift lazy ace. :lol: You are brave man! :wink:
 

Turkey Track Bar

Well-known member
Tap said:
lazy ace said:
Tap good pictures it sure looks like you had a good grass year last year. The calves look good with all the old grass surrounding them. I sure like last years branding pictures the best. :wink: There was a lot of natural talent there. :D :D

have a cold one

lazy ace

I catch your drift lazy ace. :lol: You are brave man! :wink:

Who has a very patient, kind, sweet wife :lol: :wink: :lol: :wink:

Cheers---

TTB :wink:
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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That's really somethin!!!! Each cow standin out there has her own calf right beside her. That is somethin that you don't ever see here. The only time I can pair up cows and calves is when the calf is nursin. I write the numbers on the front and back of the tags so I can see the number when they are up under there LOL. Any other given time of the day, the cows leave their calves with "the baby sitter" and wonder off to graze.
The way they stand in your pasture would make it easy pairin em up. It takes me a few weeks to get everyone paired up with the right mama after we work and tag all the calves and turn em back out. We don't tag in the pasture anymore. Seems that when we do that, either the coyotes or domestic dogs or the Mexican Buzzards end up gettin the calf. So now we just leave em be and do it when we pen em.

I love your wide open spaces.
 
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