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the_jersey_lilly_2000

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hehe. borrowed a camera today. I couldn't stand it any longer. Feb 3 marked the official start of our calvin, even tho we had a few come a lil early. So I went out today and took a few pictures of some of the new babies. :D thought I'd share.

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Ain't they CUTE???!!!!!
 

Nicky

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Very cute! Isn't it almost your bday, or Valentines day, or SOMETHING??? Tell Mr Lilly to get with it and get you a new camera :) :wink:
 
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Anonymous

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They don't look like the "normal lilly" calves--- not all ear.... :wink: :p
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Oldtimer....I been lookin at these calves wonderin to myself...."are their ears as big?"

Guess not huh lol

Soapweed.....we've just about quit taggin at all in the pasture, wait til we work cows in the spring, pen ever thang, and tag babies then. Pair em up after we turn em back out together. Seems to work just as well. I do however keep records of when the calves are born and the mothers tag number. Then it's real simple to write that calf tag down beside the mother's number in the record book.
LOL we did the pasture taggin for a long time, and I just decided since I'm out there by myself, I'd rather not be the one that gets ran over by a mama cow, and no one there to help me. I don't run as fast as I usta, and I'm alot more clumbsy now than I usta be too. LOL and I wern't never real graceful to start with. :wink:
 

Emma

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They're beautiful. Nice shots, too. Makes me even more impatient for my first '08 calves to arrive.
That's a good idea about tagging, jersey, I got flattened by a mad mama more than once last year. I was told to pipe them but I'm just not going to do that. I did sell the cow I renamed "Killer" so I'm hoping the whole business will be a little safer this time around.
 

Hanta Yo

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
LOL we did the pasture taggin for a long time, and I just decided since I'm out there by myself, I'd rather not be the one that gets ran over by a mama cow, and no one there to help me. I don't run as fast as I usta, and I'm alot more clumbsy now than I usta be too. LOL and I wern't never real graceful to start with. :wink:


sw and I tag together, if one or the other of us is gone, we wait til the next day :shock: No sense getting hurt alone way out here when there is nobody around :shock: Course we know which cows are the ones to keep an eye on....a bucket of cake at tagging always helps :wink:
 

alabama

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Les said:
How can you possibly calve with no snow?? :p great pics tho

If we had to calve with snow all the cows would have in ond every second year. Ww had snow on the ground this year for almost 1/2 a day.
 

Hanta Yo

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Emma said:
....a bucket of cake at tagging always helps
Hi Hanta Yo, my first question for you, what's a bucket of cake? Is that a protein tub or something similar?


Cake is a protein supplement....about 2-3 inches long, 1" thick, like a thick, short cigar. It's candy to cows, so when we tag in our Polaris 6-wheeler, we keep a 5 gal bucket of cake in the back. Grab the calf, throw out cake and the cows forget about their calf for the time it takes to band/tag/vaccinate. We usually have a BUNCH of cows around the 6 wheeler, cow can't even find her calf. A week before we start calving, I go out to the calving pasture and start "chumming" cows with cake. That way when we do start calving they come running toward us, not away from us :wink:
 

Emma

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Nice! Thanks for the info, HYo. I'm going to get me some of that...if I can. It's pretty difficult to get much more than the very basics here in the suburban wilderness. I can't even get loose minerals without going far, far away for them.
 

Jassy

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Les said:
How can you possibly calve with no snow?? :p great pics tho


My thoughts exactly...hey Lilly if ya want I'll have Soapweed help me and we'll box up some of the cold winds and cold temps and send them down to ya...Send it FEDEX...you should get it in a day or two...wouldn't want ya to be done calving before the box gets there...lol

What cuties...I'm so glad you borrowed the camera...hope ya don't have to return it very soon..lol Take lots while ya got it!
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Snow??? what's that??? I can honestly say, our cows have NEVER calved in snow. Never done anything else in snow either, cuz in the 18 years we've been here, it's never snowed. I think the last snow on record for here was like 1951 or somethin like that.

But they do know how to calve in rain....very well experienced in teachin the babies how to swim the creek :wink: LOL (the cows...not me)
 
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