Actually, it turned out I was right. The heiffer is now a cow :) she came into milk and the little bull calf is doing quite well, the men came to their senses in time and turned the cattle all out together.
I can't get close to her; I don't rope, we don't have a chute and she is wild. We are going to take the rejected calf home tomorrow if nothing changes and bottle feed it. I would hate that because it is a bull and getting close to a critter we will later eat is hard on me. I don't make...
The heifer is the all red one, walking away in this picture, which was taken 3 weeks ago. The two red and white cows are the 5 and 7 year old cows. On the far left is an unrelated bull who belongs to our partner.
We just recently partnered with a gentleman who has had cattle for about 5-6 years on 3 head of cattle, two cows and a heifer. They are all red angus. The two cows are 5 and 7 years old, heifer is 2. The heifer is small compared to the cows, and we are told she is the daughter to one of them...