Culling decisions, 3-22-08

[Soapweed]

This cow gets a free ride to town

Because she has an udderly atrocious bag. As a kid growing up, we had quite a few Herefords with similar problems. We bought teat salve in volume, and would do our best to get the calf sucking a cow like this. I no longer have the necessary tolerance. She is out of here, and her calf will be a bucket calf until it is needed to put on a deserving cow.

A two-year-old that mauled her newborn calf to death. A few hours later we tried to graft a bucket calf on her. She tried to maul it also. Her departure from the Soapweed outfit will be in the very near future.

This cow gets to stay, even though she had a red calf. :wink:

Two-year-old heifers and their calves. They are what we are striving for.

Some of their babies

 

[lazy ace]

It is a good looking red calf. Nice pictures, nice culling.

have a good easter

lazy ace

 

[Anonymous]

SHHEEESSSSHH red calves- whats your place coming to Soap :wink: :lol:


Yep- I think that heifer flat deserves a ride...She sure ain't too much to look at either...I don't know if its the way she's standing or what, but she's got about the highest tailhead I've seen....

 

[WyomingRancher]

I was introduced to cows which try and kill their calves a few years ago. I bought ten purebred angus first-calf heifers and each one of them tried smearing their calf into the ground. I ended up separating them for a few hours after calving, and they settled down and accepted the calf.

With their second calves, only one did it again. She currently resides in a freezer The others have had some nice heifer calves, but there is no way I would keep any of them for replacements.

I was talking to a friend about these heifers, and he admitted it was common in his angus cowherd. They are actually pleasantly surprised when a cow doesn't "mud-up" their calf after calving :???:

Another friend who raises purebred angus said they saw it a lot in the breed. Have other people found this to be true? Are there certain bloodlines that do this?

 

[Nebraska Sandhills]

Two-year-old heifers and their calves. They are what we are striving for.


Super set of heifers you have Soapweed. Very uniform heifers and the calves already have that "look" to them. Hope they stay healthy for you.

 

[randiliana]

I was introduced to cows which try and kill their calves a few years ago. I bought ten purebred angus first-calf heifers and each one of them tried smearing their calf into the ground. I ended up separating them for a few hours after calving, and they settled down and accepted the calf.

With their second calves, only one did it again. She currently resides in a freezer The others have had some nice heifer calves, but there is no way I would keep any of them for replacements.

I was talking to a friend about these heifers, and he admitted it was common in his angus cowherd. They are actually pleasantly surprised when a cow doesn't "mud-up" their calf after calving :???:

Another friend who raises purebred angus said they saw it a lot in the breed. Have other people found this to be true? Are there certain bloodlines that do this?

Yep, I have seen it also. Only in Angus heifers (and 1 cow) so far. Have heard about it from others as well, and it almost always seems to involve angus heifers/cows.

 

[WyomingRancher]

I've seen other breeds be a little rough with their calves, especially first-calf heifers, but these heifers brought it up to a whole new level! Randiliana, that's intersting you've observed and heard the same thing.