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Daily Dose

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Well, here's a lil bit of what I seen on my rounds today. Was a great day, sunshine, (one small thundershower that lasted about 15 minutes) and more sunshine.

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Cute Calves

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Two Blondes


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What one blonde thought of the other blonde LOL


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Yeller flowers

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We call em trumpets, don't know what they really are, but the hummin birds love em.

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With all this rain, there's mushrooms growin ever where now.

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Time to head home.
 

Faster horses

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Really colorful pictures, Lilly. Thanks!!
Those calves look so healthy and bright. I love seein' them that way.
We don't have any 'eared' cattle in this area so it's always
different to see them in your posts.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Thanks Faster horses, I think the calves are lookin good too.
And when others post pictures of calves I notice "no ears"
guess I"ll be havin some of them "no ear'd" calves next year
with this new angus bull. Not that they look bad, they don't,
they all look great, the one's I've seen posted. It's just what
ya get usta seein.
 

Ranchy

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Great pics, Lilly! Love what one blonde thought of the other........ :lol: :lol: :lol: (Don't tell Li'l Lilly I said that! :eek: )

Gotta love a calf with a little "ear".......some of my favs when my dad had his place, were new babies with a little bit of "ear"! Bull they came from was 3/8 Brahmer, 5/8 Simental. He threw some good lookin babies! :D

:cboy:
 

alabama

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Did I see a calf with a tag on the wrong side of the ear? Or is that the way you tag those flop eared calves> :wink:
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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We tag everthang in the right ear, after seein some that do heifers in one ear, and bulls in the other we may start doin it that way in the future. Never thought about doin it that way till someone posted on here that they did, sure would help in sortin later on instead of havin to look at the number and refer to my book, or look to see if one's a steer. It's always a major undertakin at sortin time seems like, Mr Lilly's dad runs a few cows with ours, and we never know which one's he wants to keep (heifers) and which he wants to sell. He doesn't ever seem to be on hand at that time. So we go more by the calves numbers than anything else.
The red bramer lookin calf does have her tag in backwards, I don't know who's responsible for that LOL, but since the tags get numbered on both sides it don't really matter, it can be seen from front or back.
 

txag

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nice pics, jl.

instead of putting the tags in different ears for heifers & bulls/steers, we use different colored tags. the heifers get one color & the bulls/steers get a different color (all in the left ear). imo, that makes it even easier at sorting time.

also, when you tag heifers in the right ear, the tag is often in the way when the vet tries to put in the bangs tattoo. putting them in the left makes his job easier. :wink: of course, as much ear as those calves have, you could put in 3 tags & still have room for a tattoo. :lol:
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Well with Mr Lilly's dad runnin cows with ours, ours have orange tags, his have yellow. We tag all the calves with the white tags, then pair up. and use the numbers. I also write down a discription of the calf beside it's number. Then, when we work them at weanin time, the heifers that we are keeping for replacements get either an orange or yellow tag. If we used colored tags for the calves. We'd have 4 different colors goin. Too confusing for me. It works fairly well the way we do it, and we don't get in a hurry when we work em. Our vet puts the bangs tag in the right ear, along with the tattoo. If the tags already in place, hehe there's room somewhere else on the ear for it to go.....
We call that....EPD Advantage LOL (Ear Potentual Developement)
 

Cowpuncher

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We tried a few of those eared cattle in Eastern Colorado, but they didn't work.

By fall, there were a lot of them that only had about half an ear left. We figured that they blew off in the wind!

:D
 

Denny

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
We tag everthang in the right ear, after seein some that do heifers in one ear, and bulls in the other we may start doin it that way in the future. Never thought about doin it that way till someone posted on here that they did, sure would help in sortin later on instead of havin to look at the number and refer to my book, or look to see if one's a steer. It's always a major undertakin at sortin time seems like, Mr Lilly's dad runs a few cows with ours, and we never know which one's he wants to keep (heifers) and which he wants to sell. He doesn't ever seem to be on hand at that time. So we go more by the calves numbers than anything else.
The red bramer lookin calf does have her tag in backwards, I don't know who's responsible for that LOL, but since the tags get numbered on both sides it don't really matter, it can be seen from front or back.

I tag registered calves with yellow and red tags commercial calves get white.It makes it easier when sorting to go to grass.
 

Hanta Yo

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Faster horses said:
Soapweed has a name for the eared cattle in regard to EPD's:

He calls it Ear Potential Development.
:lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

:lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

We tag our calves heifer on the left ear, bull/steer on the right ear. BECAUSE a veterinarian told us if we tagged the heifers on the same side as the Brucellosis tattoo, we would get charged more. Good way to get some things changed.

We also color tag our calves by sire along with information stamped on the tag. White tags are bred by balancer bulls, yellow tags are bred by Angus bulls, red/orange tags are bred by Gelbvieh bulls. This type of tagging system has worked very well for us. :!:
 

Soapweed

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Great pictures, Jersey Lilly. The calves sure look bright-eyed, healthy and happy to be alive. The two blondes appear carefree, enjoying life to the fullest, with their "manes" blowing in the breeze. You have a real talent for capturing the "moment" with your photos. Keep 'em coming.

As for ear tags, we use about all the different colors that Farnam Z-tag has to offer. We tag all the calves in their left ear, regardless of sex. All calves from black-white-faced cows get blue tags. All first calf heifers' calves get red tags. Calves from young Angus cows (three and four-year-olds) get green tags. Calves from Angus cows five and older get yellow tags. Solid red cows' calves get white tags. Red baldie cows' calves get pink tags. Some new cows, calved out last year and this, get purple tags. My sister has a few cows here, and her calves get orange tags. Saddletramp's calves get black tags. If Farnam just had more tag colors, we'd figure out a way to use them. :wink:

When sorting in the spring to go to grass, we sort the cows for color, and the calves for sex. The different colored tags help immensely.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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We started ordering the blank tags a couple years ago, and writing our own numbers on them. The main reason being , we order the biggest tags and then I can write the numbers on both sides. Mr Lilly was complainin the others he couldn't read, plus they get flipped up inside of the calf's ear and you can't read it at all sometimes.
When I ordered my vaccines and tags I also ordered a new tag pen this year. The night before we were penning and workin, I sat down at the bar, to number tags. HOLY MOLY I git the pen out and start tryin to write numbers on tags.....and they'd sent me a WHITE tag pen. I bout had a fit. Who in their right mind would send a white pen to write on white tags. I never knew there was other colors besides black to write on tags with, and didnt specify what color pen when I ordered. (Part my fault I spose) but the person boxin up my order shoulda known that you can't write white on white. Thank goodness I still had a workin pen in the cow box. I had just thought I should get a new one in case the other one ran out. So now I have this nice new white tag pen with no use for it. (other than to remind me to specify next time I order) LOL
 

Ranchy

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If Farnam just had more tag colors, we'd figure out a way to use them.


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I bet you would! How do you keep all that stright in your head? :???: I'd be going :shock: :shock: :shock:
 

Rowdy Ranch

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Same here-if Allflex had more colors we'd figure a way to use them. Fall cows&calfs get green tags:1st calf heifers&calfs white tags; older cows get yellow and orange along w/ their calfs;blue and pinks for middle aged cows and calfs.Don't use black just due to pen color.Fairly simple to remember and very workable,but should I not be around come fall or next spring-all is written in cattle book-BUt How could they find my book :???: :???: Think the 15 yr. old would be best at it :)
 

IL Rancher

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One year we used something like 6 diferent tag colors. 1 for AI bred heifers, one for bull bred ones, three different AI sires on the cows and than the bull bredcows... It was a.... well.. cluster..

This year we used three different colors. Heifers, my cows calves and the calves that we custom graze for my grandfather...Oh, and a few left over tags from last year, lol.

Really like the Z-tags, that way I don't loose the studs.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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As for left over tags....they aren't so bad for cows....just continue on with the number you left off at. But up until I started gettin the blank white tags for calves, we were using left over tags, tryin to save a few dollars here and there. Oh man, what a mess. It's so much easier to start the calvin season off with a new set of tags and numbers. That's why these blank tags work so well, if you have left overs, you can number them anyway you choose next go round.

Nothin worse than workin cows, and calves, with a couple hired guys for help and they are lookin to you for info on the calves and your lookin at your cow book......sayin wait a minute, ummmmmmmmmm!!/?? That's all been remedied now with the plain white tags, and numbering them myself.
 
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