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Spending time in udder contemplation, May 31, 2008

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A four-year-old cow with a heifer calf
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Close-up view
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A baldy cow with two black teats and two white ones. I don't "score" our cows' bags, but if I did each black teat would score one extra point. :wink: Around here they just get a "pass" or a "fail." Pass, they get to stay, fail results in a free ride to town.
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Her front end
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Heifer calf
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Nice bag of a baldy cow
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Her heifer calf
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Pastoral scene
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Heifer calves
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Some more of the young girls
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Bird hiding on a fence post
 
Shortgrass said:
They all look like pastureal scenes to me.
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In all of these pastoral scenes from the pasture, with bulls and cows in pragmatic proximity, it was with practiced precision that the pictures were produced showing proper pasteurization to appeal to all people. :wink: :roll: :-)
 
Agressive alliteration almost always antagonizes ardent Angus afficiandos and blissfully bombards bodacious black baldy beef breeders bouyantly basking because blessed black baldies breed better beef BOOYAHHHH!!!!
 
Northern Rancher said:
Agressive alliteration almost always antagonizes ardent Angus afficiandos and blissfully bombards bodacious black baldy beef breeders bouyantly basking because blessed black baldies breed better beef BOOYAHHHH!!!!
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Badaboom badabing!
 
burnt said:
Northern Rancher said:
Agressive alliteration almost always antagonizes ardent Angus afficiandos and blissfully bombards bodacious black baldy beef breeders bouyantly basking because blessed black baldies breed better beef BOOYAHHHH!!!!
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Badaboom badabing!
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Black baldies might be as good as straight Angus, but it has yet to be proven to me that they are any better. I like 'em both, but around here a baldy heifer gets kept for a replacement in spite of being a baldy, not because she is a baldy. :-)
 
Northern Rancher said:
I'll bet you big money more heifers are kept BECAUSE they're black then because they are baldies lol.
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You might very well be right. I've seen it many times though, when nice bred heifers are brought to town off the same ranch. The sale barn usually sorts off the baldies from the straight blacks. Even though the baldies weigh within a few pounds one way or another from the blacks, the straight blacks always outsell the ones with the white faces. A guy like me can't watch this happen for thirty years without it somewhat influencing the way we think. :? :roll: :wink:
 
nortexsook said:
If this is the best we get with blacks
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Then I'll go with the baldies!
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She isn't a very pretty cow, but she is raising a good calf. :wink:

And doing it fairly trouble-free from my perspective, I might add. :-)

We should just get back to fighting with the Liberals. :roll: :wink: :-)
 
I'm just gigging you a little. Glad you can handle it!

I've got no use for liberals. Our country has already gone too far down the socialist path. I am afraid for the future. The very near future!
 
Sundancer said:
Could it be that the cow in the first picture was one of those "average" heifers three years ago? :wink: :P
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You guessed it. They can't all be at the top of the heap, or there wouldn't be any heap to be on top of. :-) One thing about cows. They don't have any "esteem" that needs to not get hurt, and they are a fairly politically incorrect type of critter. :wink:
 
I will agree that sometimes the best calves can come from the no-so-best looking cows. One day the neighbour was leaning on the fence looking at our cows when along comes the cow that you just don't want anyone to see. To put it kindly, she is shaped like a hyena. A hyena with very poor back legs and feet.

That cow has got to go, he said. Well, I said as she slouched on by way too slowly, she does raise a pretty good calf.

Sure enough, last year she raised a cracking pair of twins! Neighbour said - don't ever listen to me again. Now this spring she has the biggest thickest steer calf that you could want. Good udder, good mother, kinda shy but not mean.

But she is butt ugly.
 
Once you decide to keep a heifer, you should never judge her by what she looks like...only judge her by what she produces! I've sold many of the best looking heifers/cows I've raised because they wouldn't produce and raise a good calf.

Selling all calves out of first-calf heifers is another mistake...I'll be using a herd bull this year that was a first calf out of a heifer that was a first calf.
 

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