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Tagging Calves

Do you tag your baby calves at birth?

  • 2 yr old heifers calves

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  • All of them

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  • None, could be dangerous

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On a nice warm sunny day, calves tend to pass out catching a few rays in the shed at our place. There's an electric wire across the front to keep out the mama's. This is where our friskier ones get their tags. 8) Sometimes it takes some time, but sooner or later they all get caught.

We bought a few bargain bred cows last fall, and they have turned out to be especially frisky. I'm not sure their old owners ever got out of the tractor at chore time. :shock: They've been an adventure, but most of them are settling down pretty well.

Except for that one....... Cowzilla, if you're at the Gladstone Auction Mart, and see a freight train wearing a green number 50 tag go through next fall, DON'T BID ON HER!!!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :D :D

Her calf did get a tag though. :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
Kato: Please tell me you're gonna cull those killer cows to slaughter and not to a bred cow sale. Several years ago we had a neighbour ( in his 80's) who leased his cows out and was lost without cows around.......he went to a sale and bought a package of breds to play around with! The entire group had been culled because they were killers at calving time and one got the old guy down......she kept working him over and every time he tried to move she came after him again. It was 3 hours before his daughter-in law found him and got him out. He survived but has never been the same since! :???:
 
TAP asked

"Sounds like you have a good system Cowpuncher. Does weather bother you much during calving in your country? Or do you have some canyons or some kind of cover?"

Some of our pastures have creek bottom with trees, but cows rarely go there to calf. Most just go to a lonesome spot where the wind isn't to fierce and have at it. We have some sandhills where the lee side is pretty nice, even in the wind.

We had a snow storm followed by a ground blizzard about two weeks ago and we lost five calves. We keep 30 old gummer cows and steal replacements from them. So far, we are about 65% done calving and have taken about ten calves off the old cows. Couple of calves were born dead. If we lose 15-20 calves herd in a corral
and taking pairs out. So far, no sickness out of about 500 calves.
 
Big Muddy rancher said:
You hit the mark with that one Cowsense. Nothing I hate worse then when someone takes their problems to town and sells them as bred cows. Is their no integrity left.
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Well some like those kind of cows. Guess it depends on where your located. If you have predators you want Momas that have fight in them.
 
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Well it can be done lol. I'd bred some cows a bit early to sell but we ended up keeping them so were calving a month or so earlier than usual-this bunch is a mile or so from the yard. A little to icy for horses yet so making do with the 50 yard sprint in the rubber boots.
 
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Here's how we mark our tags-bull in left corner-calves number in right-mother in the bottom-at least that's how we tag the ones we can catch-once they go into the bush to calve it's pretty much every cow for themselves so not many get tagged.
 
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Ok hopefully this is the right picture-you Hereford people should know the bull in the left corner-wish this calf would of been a heifer-it's on Ty's 4H two year old.
 

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