Today's Additions

[randiliana]

We are just getting started calving. These 2 are #'s 7 and 8.

This one was born at 6 am this morning. DH got out there just as she hit the ground. Only reason they went in the barn was because I wasn't sure if the calf had sucked. And with -9 and a wind, better safe than sorry. This is our 'herd marker' cow. The calf will make a good marker too, it is a heifer. Anyone want to guess the weight? Cow is about 1000 lbs, she is just a little thing.

And this one was born right around noon. As you can see mama was just getting him cleaned off when I got there. This one is out of a heifer.

 

[Nicky]

Your little 'marker' is too cute!!

 

[Work Hard and Study Hard]

Calves like that are cute right up until you get the check from the sale barn.

 

[MN Farm Girl]

I don't want to appear stupid, but what breed are your cows. That's a good lookin' calf.


MN Farm Girl

 

[randiliana]

Calves like that are cute right up until you get the check from the sale barn.

That is the truth. Doesn't matter what she looks like beyond the color, we will get hit hard on her.

 

[randiliana]

I don't want to appear stupid, but what breed are your cows. That's a good lookin' calf.


MN Farm Girl

Most of our cows are Hereford, Angus and Shorthorn crosses. The little spotted cow is the exception, and I am not too sure what all is in her. By her color I would guess some longhorn. Probably some Angus too. Her calf is sired by a Black Angus bull.

The red heifer is Shorthorn x and her calf is sired by a Red Angus bull.

 

[per]

My auto scroller started me at the bottom. I thought the cow licked all of the color off the poor little calf. :?

 

[Mrs.Greg]

My auto scroller started me at the bottom. I thought the cow licked all of the color off the poor little calf. :?

Very cute little ones.....esp the first one

 

[Red Robin]

I don't want to appear stupid, but what breed are your cows. That's a good lookin' calf.


MN Farm Girl

and I am not too sure what all is in her..

Looks like some normandy.

 

[RobertMac]

I don't want to appear stupid, but what breed are your cows. That's a good lookin' calf.


MN Farm Girl

Most of our cows are Hereford, Angus and Shorthorn crosses. The little spotted cow is the exception, and I am not too sure what all is in her. By her color I would guess some longhorn. Probably some Angus too. Her calf is sired by a Black Angus bull.

The red heifer is Shorthorn x and her calf is sired by a Red Angus bull.

I'd say the spotted girl has Shorthorn in her...I get some like her most years with my Beefmasters. She weighs upper sixties to lower seventies???

 

[randiliana]

I'd say the spotted girl has Shorthorn in her...I get some like her most years with my Beefmasters. She weighs upper sixties to lower seventies???

I won't say she has no Shorthorn in her, but that is not where her color comes from. Her color is a totally different gene than the roan and/or spotting gene that is in the Shorthorn breed. It is however, the same gene as the one in the Longhorn breed. Known as Color Sided.

To the person that suggested Normande, that is highly unlikely. It is pretty much an unknown breed in this area. Pretty rare anywhere in North America too.

The spotted calf weighed 59 lbs.
The red calf weighed 75 lbs.

 

[mrj]

Little Spots 'N Dots weighs like a Longhorn, too!

I'm jealous! We are about out of Longhorns. Our last cow is 17 this spring, and due to have her 15th calf.

mrj

 

[Work Hard and Study Hard]

My cousins in Oklahoma breed black longhorn bulls to their black heifers and clame they get straight black calves. I concede this is a great way to breed heifers if you don't check them, which they don't. I've had calves born just that same color and corriente was the culprit. I'll always concede that a live calve is better than a dead one but his mother didn't help much on his color.

 

[RobertMac]

I'd say the spotted girl has Shorthorn in her...I get some like her most years with my Beefmasters. She weighs upper sixties to lower seventies???

I won't say she has no Shorthorn in her, but that is not where her color comes from. Her color is a totally different gene than the roan and/or spotting gene that is in the Shorthorn breed. It is however, the same gene as the one in the Longhorn breed. Known as Color Sided.

To the person that suggested Normande, that is highly unlikely. It is pretty much an unknown breed in this area. Pretty rare anywhere in North America too.

The spotted calf weighed 59 lbs.
The red calf weighed 75 lbs.

The chance of my cattle having Longhorn breeding is very, very, very remote...but I regularly get calves that look like her out of solid colored parents. About the only thing I know for sure about genetics, is that we don't know all that we think we know! :shock: :?