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I been hauling water to an old cow thats gimpy from stepping in a hole or something-- today I remembered to take a camera and snapped a few pictures of the cows as I drove thru them...Temp isn't as high as the 40's yesterday- but it is 30 and no wind today...And as you can see these old gals are enjoying it and the sunshine....

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A couple of the girls taking in the sun and chewing their cud...

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A first calf heifer...

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A couple more old girls-- the cow in the foreground is 10 years old and less than a 5 frame- but she brings in a big healthy calf every year- and it doesn't look like the winter is hurting her any yet.....

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Someone was worried about my cows welfare out grazing with no supplement the other day...This is a coming 5 year old- under 6 frame cow- that weaned a 650 lb steer calf the end of Oct. (born April 3)- and is still fat enough to butcher....

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Same cow-posing for me now....

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This one wouldn't pose :roll: #97- the cow in the middle of the picture with 2 eartags is a 2nd calf heifer....Even those odd colored cows are doing pretty good :wink:
 
DOESN'T LOOK TO ME LIKE THEY NEED SUPPLEMENTS. THEY ARE PRETTY FAT. THAT'S WHAT MY HUSBAND WANTS A COUPLE OF NICE BLACKS
 
When I ck'ed cows this PM....first calf has hit the ground!!

The race is on!!! :lol: :lol:
 
I'm thinking I should be calving now-- Starting to wonder what our March/April/May calving weather will bring if its being so nice to us now :???: Probably have 6 foot of drifted snow :shock:

Kola- That 10 year old cow was sired by an EXT son (can't you tell by the headset) :lol: :lol: Actually she is a quiet old girl that you can walk right by and scratch her back-- but that head always goes in the air :roll:- and if you didn't know better you'd think she was going to run or take you all the time... I found her just special for you and Northern Rancher....

The first calf heifer in the next picture is her daughter sired by a 6807/Bolton of Wye bred son- and she's dog quiet too....
 
Not having to cake for an extra month or two can really mount up. Bet a lot more were in your shoes.
 
Isn't that the ideal scenerio OT? The cows are fat, and the feed dollars are staying in your pocket too.

Good photos. Good old EXT cows!
 
Oldtimer said:
I'm thinking I should be calving now-- Starting to wonder what our March/April/May calving weather will bring if its being so nice to us now :???: Probably have 6 foot of drifted snow :shock:

Kola- That 10 year old cow was sired by an EXT son (can't you tell by the headset) :lol: :lol: Actually she is a quiet old girl that you can walk right by and scratch her back-- but that head always goes in the air :roll:- and if you didn't know better you'd think she was going to run or take you all the time... I found her just special for you and Northern Rancher....

The first calf heifer in the next picture is her daughter sired by a 6807/Bolton of Wye bred son- and she's dog quiet too....
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I admired that ol girl for sure. :wink: I love my EXT's....just like over grown puppies they are. The only thing they chase is the feed bucket!

Must our temperate climate....I'd be a bit ' grouchy ' too if I had to live in in -40 most of the time myself!! :lol: :lol:
 
good deep looking cattle OT,your weather looks fair,what I had heard yall were in deep snow ?
I got back to the Hill country last nite........found about a half dozen limi calves this morning,so I guess I need to stay close to the heifers,but so far no calving problems that I can see........good luck
 
Haymaker- we only had about two inches of snow- then the temps got into the 40's and we had Chinook winds and took it all.... :D Supposed to get up near 40 today...If I can get the kid to come help today I'm going to mount a new headgate in the calving barn....I also need to go get a cow chute I bought....My old vet buddy Doc bought a new silencer hydraulic outfit- so I bought his old Powder River...He had it for several years- but since he always had it inside his clinic it really hasn't had a lot cattle thru it- and since its always been inside it looks like new.....

Kola-- Did you see the AAA came out with a new Docility EPD with their 2008 EPD's.... I spent awhile looking at them- and I'm still wondering how they came up with what they did- and how accurate (inaccurate) they really are....Old EXT came out as a fuzzy bear compared to some on the list- and some that I heard would "eat you on sight" came out in the average range :shock: :???:
 
I've heard the guys talking about it...havent' seen the numbers myself.

I think there is something to it...I really do .,....as just with my little herd here at the homplace I can see the ' docile' gene existing in some....and in various degrees in others.

I know, from my little herd , the common response I get as feed-back from return customers is that they like that I sell calm cattle....bulls/heifers/cows, etc. In the long run...makes their life easier.


One old farmer here always said that to tell if a calf was to be gentle...to look at it's face and find the ' whirl' of hair. The location of that ' whirl' indicated it's level of calm. The higher and tighter the whirl....the crazier the critter....the lower and looser/wider the opposite would be true.


Here I've kept up with that over the last 5 calf crops...just making little notes to myself about each calf when it's born.....at vacc time, etc....and ya know...he might have just had something there.


I'd have to pull the old notes back out....but just from quik memory I think we only called it wrong, using his scale of measure, 3 times.
Pretty good averages I'd say.


As far as EXT.....of all the 1,000s gone thru Ankony....I've never heard of any of them being called ' man eaters'.
 
Good looking cattle.I think wild cattle come more from poor handleing than genetic's but that's just my thought's.
 
OT...it's a conspiracy!!! They are plotting on how to get you to buy those wild kind of cattle. :wink: Your cows look really good, BTW.

Kola, that cowlick/swirl has been used by horsemen for ages with a high percentage of being correct. A friend of mine that worked for Rock Creek Cattle Co. checked the ranch horses (70 head) and found it right on every horse but one. That's what the old timers used to tell you to check when you were buying a colt.

I think it is only lately that it has been discussed regarding cattle. Tempe Grandin did some work that was published, using the swirl and monitored how cattle acted in the squeeze chute. She found a corelation to where the cowlick was located (high or low) to the temperament of the cattle.
 
Denny, you're right, no doubt.

But sometimes it seems like some cows do fine out in the fields....but then maybe they are claustrophobic or something....but some tend to get a wee bit freakish/nervous -for no known reason at alll-when confined.

All of mine that are working here today were born on this place and 99.9% of their mommas were also with some still here to this day. So they have seen/heard me every day of their life and even one or two of them get a bit anxious in the barn or in the chute for no reason.


My vet said once that my critters lived so good here....that when he died he wanted to come back as one of my critters and live the easy life!!! :lol: :lol:
 
I didn't make it over to check the old gimpy cow until almost 11AM-- and almost all those cows were laying around chewing their cud- and really soaking up the sun...Temp was already 40 degrees...

This afternoon while I was mounting some new gates in the corral- the thermometer on the barn showed 54 :shock: Hard to believe its Montana- but it could change in a minute... :roll:

Weather boys are predicting a slight chance of rain/snow tomorrow ( I suppose because I have to inspect a couple hundred cows tomorrow)- but still temps around 40.....
 
Those are some pretty nice cows for a grumpy old fart from Montana to be owning. I like the bred heifer a lot and the five year old cow looks a lot like one of mine. Mind if I get a real brand inspector to take a look?



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rkaiser said:
Those are some pretty nice cows for a grumpy old fart from Montana to be owning. I like the bred heifer a lot and the five year old cow looks a lot like one of mine.
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Thanks- I think :shock: Yep your old cow does look good....

Mind if I get a real brand inspector to take a look?
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That coming from a fella that posted a picture of a red Black Red bull :???: :wink: :lol: :lol: :p

from cattletoday:
rkaiser said:
How about a three year old Fullblood Red Welsh Black bull.

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