Which BYC member scares you?

[BackyardKittens]

I have a chicken wanna see it?

 

[BackyardKittens]

just asking

 

[Isadora]

Awe! All my boys did that too. They used to like suckling on my shirt. Drove me nuts. lol They'd stretch it out so bad. She was always super sneaky the first week or so. She's hide them where you'd never find them if you didn't get to them right after she calved to tell what sex they were. The suspense would kill me, so I'd check her every day. Usually she didn't have a chance to hide it. But once the first week or so was over she'd bring the calf to me and go take care of her business. She was a good mom. First cow to calve every spring and then she'd steal the last calf of the summer and raise it too.

She'd steal the last one?!

 

[ColtHandorf]

She'd steal the last one?!

Yep. Every year. She produced a ton of milk for a beef cow. I'll have to see if I have pics of her somewhere. She'd have so much milk she'd leak and make puddles if she stood still or laid down for too long. I always wanted to go get her a calf from the dairy to just raise twins, but I was always terrified that she'd decide that was the one time she wouldn't let a random calf nurse, and I'd have to bottle feed it. But yeah, her calf would usually be three or four months old and when the last cow would drop, she'd just steal it and raise hers and the new baby.

 

[Isadora]

Yep. Every year. She produced a ton of milk for a beef cow. I'll have to see if I have pics of her somewhere. She'd have so much milk she'd leak and make puddles if she stood still or laid down for too long. I always wanted to go get her a calf from the dairy to just raise twins, but I was always terrified that she'd decide that was the one time she wouldn't let a random calf nurse, and I'd have to bottle feed it. But yeah, her calf would usually be three or four months old and when the last cow would drop, she'd just steal it and raise hers and the new baby.

You really hate bottle feeding, huh? It does get old quickly.
She sounds amazing.

 

[ColtHandorf]

You really hate bottle feeding, huh? It does get old quickly.
She sounds amazing.

I do when I'm in public school and expected to take all the responsibility for it. She was a wonderful cow. I adored her. Shame, my father, took her to sale to cover his property taxes after siphoning all the money out of my savings account at the credit union wasn't enough to cover them on the property he ironically threw me off of. Of course he told me that she and her three-year-old heifer just mysteriously died that winter. Crawled into a brush pile and just gave up on life. He must think I'm as dumb as he was.

My grandmother kept immaculate records for all their cattle when they were in the APHA (American Polled Hereford Association). His Jersy mix (Jersey), had three bull calves the first three years they had her. Every one of them was "struck by lightning".

 

[Isadora]

I do when I'm in public school and expected to take all the responsibility for it. She was a wonderful cow. I adored her. Shame, my father, took her to sale to cover his property taxes after siphoning all the money out of my savings account at the credit union wasn't enough to cover them on the property he ironically threw me off of. Of course he told me that she and her three-year-old heifer just mysteriously died that winter. Crawled into a brush pile and just gave up on life. He must think I'm as dumb as he was.

My grandmother kept immaculate records for all their cattle when they were in the APHA (American Polled Hereford Association). His Jersy mix (Jersey), had three bull calves the first three years they had her. Every one of them was "struck by lightning".

Ugh. I'm sorry. That's just horrible.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Ugh. I'm sorry. That's just horrible.

Me too. Cream Soda (Cream) was a really good girl to have met an end like that. I hope whoever bought her let her live a long healthy life and appreciated her the way I did.

She was bought so that I could sell a calf every year and put the money into a savings account for college. I think she had four bull calves before she had her first heifer in between two hills before a huge thunderstorm came through. I named the calf Electra. All her brothers were named after weather, too, Thunder, Cyclone, Glenstorm, and another one I'm forgetting. Might have named him after a centaur in Narnia. Roonwit. Pretty sure Glenstorm was one too.

She was a lovely creamy color and bread to Brangus 90% of the time threw grey calves with white facial markings. Pretty sure she was half Hereford and half Simmental.

 

[ColtHandorf]

@ColtHandorf I'm sorry he's out of focus but look how much his horns have grown View attachment 3307885

Was he too old to de-horn? Mine were always naturally polled, thank goodness.

 

[Isadora]

Was he too old to de-horn? Mine were always naturally polled, thank goodness.

No, he's not. We're going to band them soon. I'm thinking they're probably long enough to do at this point. When there's small nubs the band won't stay on, obviously.