Brought home a new Heifer!

[redtailgal]

Love the face on Shorty, lol. He's got an all business face.

Your herd is lovely!

 

[Stubbornhillfarm]

I agree with redtailgal, the apple didn't fall far from the tree there. Shorty does look all business and I wouldn't want to be the one to ruffle Abi's feathers. She looks like she'd knock you into the middle of next week! I love it. No messin with her. And Red...oh my goodness, what a beautiful color! What a great looking heard and spectacular landscape you have there. Congrats!

 

[boothcreek]

Abi is a tough cookie, surivived being toxic from mastitis and an allergy to penecillin(but lost a 1/4 of her udder, as you can see on the pic) 2 yrs ago and still kicking and giving us big beautiful calves. But we got an agreement, I can handle her calves but no one else. Everyone else better run for the fence(which I think is holarious).
She melts into a drooling suck-up tho when you got a brush and work her over with it

Shorty is a nosy brat that keeps his mom busy, his motto is to go and check everything out up close against his moms approval, I never have seen abi have a calf that makes HER run
That is what send Ray-Ray Flying a few times, cause Shorty wanted to play and just ran up to her.

This Am everything is peacful in the group and Ray-Ray looks like she belongs, grazing right in the middle. We were honestly worried since we haven't introduced a new female in 8 yrs and the old girls can be rather harsh sometimes...

 

[WildRoseBeef]

The horns stay of course.

I don't think you understood what I was asking. I didn't ask specifically whether you were going to completely lop the horns off, I was asking (or rather implying) whether you were going to tip them some or leave them. Guess I wasn't specific enough for you, so sorry I asked what sounded like a stupid question to you, I'll try to be a bit more specific next time. :/



Nice herd, btw.

 

[greybeard]

It seems everyone has a cow named red. There are several in my community, along with the name "Peaches". Peaches? I dunno!

Lol, I'd bet it was a good laugh watching her kick up her heels.

My little bull calf is Booger Red. (My highschool assistant principal's nickname picked up from his own highschool football days)

 

[boothcreek]

The horns stay of course.

I don't think you understood what I was asking. I didn't ask specifically whether you were going to completely lop the horns off, I was asking (or rather implying) whether you were going to tip them some or leave them. Guess I wasn't specific enough for you, so sorry I asked what sounded like a stupid question to you, I'll try to be a bit more specific next time. :/



Nice herd, btw.

They stay the way they are.

 

[WildRoseBeef]

deleted...result of getting a little too huffy lol.....

 

[redtailgal]

I'm curious about the allergy to penicillin.

I lost a goat this time last year to a reaction. What sort of reaction did she have and what did you do, if you dont mind my asking?

 

[boothcreek]

Her hair started to fall out around the injection site, she got extremely sensitive to touch, and she started getting hives everywhere. The hives turned into huge pussing sores after a few days and the hair loss started to go over her whole body with us not figuring out what the heck is wrong.

Then at day 4 the pussing sores got huge and the skin actually lifted off the muscle tissue underneath, it was just horrible. In the end we had a few of those sores break along her arm pit on one side and drain and created a complete cavern where the tissues had seperated. If you pet her along her right side now you feel a lot of lumps where the tissue scarred trying to re-adhere itself to the muscles etc and one huge scar where one broke open to a hole the size of my hand(womens med).

The vet said its an allergy to the penicillin and we stopped it immediately and withing 3-4 days her hair stopped falling out, and the sores deminished, we could start touching her without her flinching in pain and lashing out, and she was overall much better just kept on painkillers/fever reducers. Of course the penillin didn't do much for the mastitis she suffered from and she lost her one teat but without the penicillin she was at least up and moving, eating, drinking etc and not laying on her side looking like she'd die any minute(3 times I walked away to get the gun cause I couldn't get her on her feet to come back to her having got up and wandered off into the woods even further... .)

Needless to say she runs from me now if she sees me with a needle from 50 yrds away, two weeks of 4 injections a day.... can't really blame her on that one

 

[redtailgal]

Needless to say she runs from me now if she sees me with a needle from 50 yrds away, two weeks of 4 injections a day.... can't really blame her on that one

I'd run from you too! lol, poor ole girl.

Thats alot different than the reaction we had here, it was fatal in under a minute.

Thanks for sharing that information, it's good to know in case it ever happens here.