Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :
Cowgirl71: OMGoodness!
He is tough!! I couldn't do that!
Wow -
Um, Buttercup was born last Winter...seems like. Her mother ( Betsy ) died just a few weeks after Buttercup was born. So she was bottle fed up until the point she could eat hay and sweet feed alright. Then a neighbor/friend gave us a calf that the mother wouldn't take so I was bottle feeding both of them then when Betsy died we found a Jersey Cow up in the Amarillo area and she came with 2 calves. They had 4 calves, 2 girls and 2 boys-we got both of the boys. I was feeding 4 calves every morning now -
Then we gave 2 calves to a friend of ours and now we just have Buttercup and Tiny Tim. Buttercup was born last winter so maybe a year old?
Something like that.
Bessy was w/ a bull for 2 months - we're hopeing she is bred!
Does she look bred to you?
I can't tell whether a cow's pregnant or not by looking at her until she's at least six months along. Did you ever see the bull "interested" in her? If you keep her with Tiny Tim (who I'm assuming is a steer, right?), he should be able to tell you if and when she goes in heat. When we bred our two milk cows this summer we just kept the Jersey bull in with them until we didn't see any signs of anyone going into heat for seven weeks straight. Then we quickly got rid of that onry cuss. Those dairy bulls and bucks are just so much more irritating and hyper than the beef/meat bulls/bucks.
But I would guess that Bessy's bred if she was with in with a bull for two months.
I can't imagine driving for 26 hours straight either...
Cowgirl71: OMGoodness!
Um, Buttercup was born last Winter...seems like. Her mother ( Betsy ) died just a few weeks after Buttercup was born. So she was bottle fed up until the point she could eat hay and sweet feed alright. Then a neighbor/friend gave us a calf that the mother wouldn't take so I was bottle feeding both of them then when Betsy died we found a Jersey Cow up in the Amarillo area and she came with 2 calves. They had 4 calves, 2 girls and 2 boys-we got both of the boys. I was feeding 4 calves every morning now -
I can't tell whether a cow's pregnant or not by looking at her until she's at least six months along. Did you ever see the bull "interested" in her? If you keep her with Tiny Tim (who I'm assuming is a steer, right?), he should be able to tell you if and when she goes in heat. When we bred our two milk cows this summer we just kept the Jersey bull in with them until we didn't see any signs of anyone going into heat for seven weeks straight. Then we quickly got rid of that onry cuss. Those dairy bulls and bucks are just so much more irritating and hyper than the beef/meat bulls/bucks.
I can't imagine driving for 26 hours straight either...
