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LORI POTTER / WORLD-HERALD NEWS SERVICE
A bison mom and her cinnamon are among a half-dozen cow-calf pairs in a Shoemaker Island prairie pasture at the Crane Trust south of Alda. Crane Trust staff dont know how many calves to expect this spring from the herds 12 mature cows and five heifers young females that havent borne a calf because some cows dont calve in back-to-back years.
http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/crane-trust-genetically-pure-bison-herd-is-growing/article_af42bb9a-034b-11e5-9c03-d7bd20fffedb.html
POSTED: TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 12:30 AM
By Lori Potter / World-Herald News Service
ALDA, Neb. The six reddish-brown babies shadowing their mothers on a Shoemaker Island prairie between channels of the Platte River dont know they are making history.
The calves are the first generation of genetically pure bison to be born in the Platte Valley for generations. They will grow up on Crane Trust land they now share with older siblings, other adults and two dominant bulls that arrived in January and early February from Rim Rock Ranch near Crawford.
They really do take care of themselves out there in the field for the most part, said Crane Trust Senior Director Brice Krohn. He said the cows go off to isolated areas to give birth and rejoin the herd when the calves are a couple of days old.
Daily checks of the Crane Trust Legacy Herd by land manager Tim Smith, bison coordinator Jacob Salter and other staff have been more exciting the past two weeks as the number of 40- to 60-pound newborns, called cinnamons, keeps growing.
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LORI POTTER / WORLD-HERALD NEWS SERVICE
A Crane Trust Legacy Herd yearling blends into tall dry grass in a section of native tall grass and mixed-grass prairie.
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Crane Trust genetically pure bison herd is growing (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
May 2015
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central scrutinizer
(11,637 posts)1. My mom was born in Alda
I was born in Grand Island
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)2. Very cool.