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Some Sunday Pics of the Heifers

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Anonymous

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I moved some heifers that are looking the closest into the "maternity pen" where I have some lights- make it easier to check at night- and remembered to stick a camera in my pocket today....

Few of the young ladies--My new bright yellow headgate on the "maternity barn" can probably be seen from the spy satellites as bright as it is...

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Few more of the girls
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The red tagged heifer is a Strategy daughter that we bought last spring- little framier than I like, and rougher keeping than my home raised but a nice quiet heifer....
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Some of the girls wondering why they can't be still out in the big lot with their sisters...
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My buddy- Sam...I just got thru scolding him and making him sit outside the corral and he can't figure out why he can't come into the corral with me...His Dad and Mom know to stay out of the area of the maternity pen-as I don't need to get ate by no mad momma or making any momma nervous.....He's young- overly anxious- he will learn ....
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Red Robin

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Those in the picture don't look that close to me oldtimer. How long do you hold them in the pen before calving? Nice heifers.
 
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Red Robin said:
Those in the picture don't look that close to me oldtimer. How long do you hold them in the pen before calving? Nice heifers.

These are the ones that are bagging- and hopefully won't be too long...I penned them up mainly because they are predicting 3-4 days of snow (3-4 inchs :( ) and cold nights- and I don't want to be dragging calves in from the pasture or lower lot in a sled in the night too bad...If the weather gets nicer I'll probably kick anything that doesn't look imminent back out in the lot- which is a couple acres in size.....I don't like them standing around too long- prefer they get some exercise...

Most these are ones that we synchronized and AIed to Objective along with a neighbor--Same time- and he has had 8 calves already out of about 40 heifers- and they weren't supposed to start until about the 15th, so I thought I better bring them in.... It appears thats where Objective gets some of his calving ease- a short gestation...
 

Mrs.Greg

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HEY....you can't blame bad weather on me......you have hardly any snow.


Like your heifers....too bad they're not RED

Like your dog....too bad its not Black
 
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Mrs.Greg said:
Like your heifers....too bad they're not RED

Like your dog....too bad its not Black

SHHHEEESSSH-- poor Greg- trying to please a Canuck woman :roll: .... :wink: :lol: :p At least the pups Mom and Dad are black....

Had 2-3 inches of snow-but it went in the 40-50 degree last few days we had...But they say more is coming...
 

Ned Jr.

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While we're on the subject of colors I have to ask. Yellow??? What in the heck pozest you to paint your head catch yellow?? Didn't you have any John Deere green around?? :? :D

Nice looking heifers.
 

leanin' H

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Beautiful little sisters! And that head gate paint will come in handy when your chasing a calving heifer around and lose your light! The glow will allow ya to keep right on running! :wink: Hope the calves are healthy and drink lots of milk!
 
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Ned Jr. said:
While we're on the subject of colors I have to ask. Yellow??? What in the heck pozest you to paint your head catch yellow?? Didn't you have any John Deere green around?? :? :D

Nice looking heifers.

That wasn't my pick in colors :shock: - I said about the same thing...I picked up that headgate at an auction sale a couple years ago- and someone thought it would bring more all spruced up with a new paint job..Good for-most headgate- that I got for less than 1/2 price of a new one...
I have no idea where they found that bright of yellow... :shock: :gag:

But I know it will be handy for me- I have it installed right on one of the barn doors-so I can run a heifer in the one door- headcatch them as they go out the other door- work on them inside out of the weather and with lights- rather than tying them to a post- or running them in the alleyway or chute and working them by the pickup lights with the snowballs flying around your head in a 40 mph wind :shock: ....And by mounting it right outside the door I have more room inside the barn than if I'd mounted it inside...
 

Faster horses

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Seems like there was a brand of headgate that was that color right from the factory. I can't remember what the brand was, but we bought one from the veterinarian in W. Montana. It worked really good.
 

Emma

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My buddy- Sam...I just got thru scolding him and making him sit outside the corral and he can't figure out why he can't come into the corral with me...His Dad and Mom know to stay out of the area of the maternity pen-as I don't need to get ate by no mad momma or making any momma nervous.....He's young- overly anxious- he will learn ....

Sam's beautiful. How old is he, OT? Is he an aussie? I see that expression he's wearing a LOT on my dog. Sometimes they're just too helpful.
 
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Emma said:
My buddy- Sam...I just got thru scolding him and making him sit outside the corral and he can't figure out why he can't come into the corral with me...His Dad and Mom know to stay out of the area of the maternity pen-as I don't need to get ate by no mad momma or making any momma nervous.....He's young- overly anxious- he will learn ....

Sam's beautiful. How old is he, OT? Is he an aussie? I see that expression he's wearing a LOT on my dog. Sometimes they're just too helpful.

Sam is a Border Collie and hes just a year old...He really wants to get out and work cows with his Dad and Mom, but sometimes gets a little overaggressive and over anxious--then has to sit in the pickup- or tied to the corral- sits there and pouts-- but he learns a little each day and definitely enjoys his praise (and sometimes a doggy biscuit) when he does something right...
 
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Well I was right on 3 of the heifers-- checked them at 3PM and nothing happening altho one had mucous and a tail up- went back at 5PM and 3 calves on the ground...
And 2 of them were the ones with hardly any bag or showing any sign... :eek: What these barometric changes and approaching snow storms won't do.... :roll:
They're predicting blowing, snowing, and a couple inchs of snow moving in tonight and tomorrow :( ...Beautiful out now- still 37 (got to 46 today)- little wind yet.....
One of the drawbacks of calving heifers in a lot or corral is they all went to the same part of the corral to have them- then the new inexperienced mommas were all confused over who belonged to who- and all 3 wanted to claim which ever calf moved... Got them sorted off into pens with the right baby and some straw- and watched all of them fill their belly...So they should do fine now...
 
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