Last year we ended up keeping some heifers for replacements that we normally would not have, later b-dates, smaller overall, but we had two bulls go bad in the heat two summers ago, and had 27 of59 cows open last spring so we kept a handful more then we normally would have. 3 in particular were pretty small, but very correct stucturally, out of young cows that had done what they could in the heat the year before and bred back to move back up.......Have been fretting it since, unfortunatly they did not frame up much more over the winter. Just figured we would pull the calves and make the best of it.
When dad called me this AM and told me one of those heifers had started I told him I was on my way, I live about a half hour from him. But he told me he thought it looked like everything was going fine. I got dressed anyway, it had been a half hour, I was just going to go anyway. But when I called to tell dad I was coming she had had him already! 55 pound black baldy heifer calf, mama was licking like a possed kid witha lollipop and baby was up sucking in ten minutes......
Not the big boned wide as a barn extreme calf that will grow up to compete Ina big time show, but easy, unassisted, and nursing is exactly what we wanted for this little heifer!
When dad called me this AM and told me one of those heifers had started I told him I was on my way, I live about a half hour from him. But he told me he thought it looked like everything was going fine. I got dressed anyway, it had been a half hour, I was just going to go anyway. But when I called to tell dad I was coming she had had him already! 55 pound black baldy heifer calf, mama was licking like a possed kid witha lollipop and baby was up sucking in ten minutes......
Not the big boned wide as a barn extreme calf that will grow up to compete Ina big time show, but easy, unassisted, and nursing is exactly what we wanted for this little heifer!