My Aunt just called, one of my cows had her calf.

[texanwitch]

This is not a great time of year to have baby calf, but this is a young cow.

Mother and baby are doing fine.

[Curmudgeoness]

1. So do we call you grandma now? Congrats. And hope the

baby does fine. Don't know where in Texas you are, but this may not be too bad. But yes, this is not the ideal time. How did mommy get pregnant at the wrong time??? I used to work for a man who owned a cattle ranch in Dew Texas and I just loved when I had to go up there for inventories.

[texanwitch]

2. This is her first calf, she just didn't get the right information.

There are two more young cows belonging to my Aunt that gave birth last week.

I am thinking the young bull that lives on the next farm is the daddy.

There was a broken fence that had to be fixed.

I will need to see the babies to know who the father was.

Our winters tend to be mild but last winter was rather cold.

We had the big freeze last year.

My Aunt has a nice barn if needed.

[Curmudgeoness]

3. Problem will be pasture grass when they get a little older.

But that can be overcome. Yep, a broken fence between heifers and a bull is never a good thing, unless it is intentional. LOL, oh well, you can't worry about closing the fence after the bull gets in.

[texanwitch]

4. Young love, what can you do.

The bull is great breeding stock.

Didn't hurt anything and all the babies were heifers.

[Curmudgeoness]

5. Great breeding stock---wonder if the neighbor will be wanting

stud fees now. Looks like you are going to have a nice little herd soon. How nice---I just love calves.

[texanwitch]

6. I love little calves.

All three calves and mothers are in the cow shed area.

The cowdogs are on duty, all is well.

The neighbor won't care, he will be happy to know that the young bull is healthy.

[Roon]

15. My step-sister adopted an orphaned calf

too him to family functions and raised him on their horse property until he got big.Then my step-brother took him in at his ranch. Lucky calf!

[Kali]

7. breed?

pix too!

we calve year round, but with a small herd it's pretty easy to see when mama is starting to lose condition, and you can either supplement her, creep feed the calf (calves) or even early wean.

[texanwitch]

9. The heifers are Hereford with a mix of Longhorn from about 15 years ago.

You can see the Longhorn effect in the horns, the horns are a little bigger.

The meat is a little leaner.

My Grandparents raise the same kind of cattle.

The little calves will mean extra work, at least it is still warm.

We worried about the mothers being so young but they did just fine.

They were just early starters.

My Grandparents had a few head of cattle that gave birth in late summer, every year.

[Kali]

13. old style!

:thumbsup:

we bought some longhorns sort of for a joke about that long ago too, and they have been a lot of fun - very different animals - and NEVER a problem calving, good mothers, intelligent as hell - good cross with anything to give a little more meat on the LH side and all their positives to the other side. the only problem is selling to the general market - nobody around here want white or spotted hides - black red or yellow only - doesn't matter what kind of steer it is, a good white or spotted one will bring (way) less than a scrawny black.

My Grampa had good Herefords all my life and they were all I knew except for the little bunch of Mexican roping steers he had that were dog-gentle pets, then a cousin who was helping and we were pasturing his cattle talked us into pulling the hereford bulls and putting brahmas and limousine bulls on the cows. About then everybody started wanting Angus/black hides so we put a black limousine and a couple brangus on them. That and the longhorns (which clve twice a year I swear!) have made an interesting mixture - looks kind of like a bunch of high grade Mexican cattle in a lot of ways:rofl:

[texanwitch]

14. These cattle look like Hereford in color, but are a little bigger in size.

My Grandparents cattle had more Longhorn in the them, not always so good.

Some of their cattle had some big ass horns.

The cattle did give birth easy, and were very tough cattle.

They could take care of themselves.

The new daddy is also a mix, so time will tell with the new heifers.

It will be interesting to see the size of their horns.

[handmade34]

8. pretty soon

she/he will be a teenager and out running around... enjoy her/him while a baby

[texanwitch]

10. Pretty babies.

Looking for trouble.

[S n o w b a l l]

11. Sweet!

They are so adorable.

When I was a little girl we raised a couple and bred them. I got to watch 2 being born. We would get up at the crack of dawn
and mix their formula and feed them holding these buckets. I loved those little things.....then my parents BUTCHERED them. :wtf:

How tramautic is that for a kid??? :cry:

[texanwitch]

12. I learned living on the farm not to get close to anything I might eat.

I could not have eaten anything I raised.

You still remember what happened.

These babies will grow up to have babies, and a good life.

No factory cattle here.