Bull pinching day ouch and weaning

[Royd Wood]

Well its that time of year and my young bulls are starting to get randy at 7 - 8 months old so we pinched 4 today and did the ear radio frequency disks. Weaning starts Sunday so the phone will be ringing by Sunday night from our neighbours just checking all is ok with the cows as the mooooooooooooooooing will be pretty bad till they lose their voices.
We also tattood the heifer calves which are joining the breeding stock and they must be tattood before we show them at the Royal winter fair in Toronto.
This year we will enter 2 heifer calves and 2 yearling heifers.
Last year bearing in mind that we are strictly grass fed we got a 7th and 8th out of 16 in the Galloway calf show. This year I think my red Galloway heifer calf is going to do better and may surprise a few of the grain fed gang ???????????????????????????????????????????????

 

[Ms. Research]

Wishing you luck at the show!

BTW, hope this isn't a silly question, what is bull pinching? Is that like neutering? Sorry, city folk question.

 

[redtailgal]

Hey, I'd like to see a pic of your red galloway..........

 

[Stubbornhillfarm]

Sounds like a busy time around the farm! Good luck for the upcomming fair. Can't wait to hear how you do this year!

 

[aggieterpkatie]

Good luck with weaning! And definitely post pics of your show girls!!

 

[Royd Wood]

Hey, I'd like to see a pic of your red galloway..........

Just for you Redtail - this is Yani our red Galloway (still bleached from summer sun) going a darker red each day now

Heres all 4 that I will be showing in their feild wear and I will put on some pics nearer showtime when they are washed and had a hair cut

Emily and Jade - yearling heifers

Yani and Yoda our 7 month old calves

 

[Lothiriel]

Wishing you luck at the show!

BTW, hope this isn't a silly question, what is bull pinching? Is that like neutering? Sorry, city folk question.

Yep, neutering/castration.

Royd Wood, Yani and Yoda look like teddy bears cute enough to cuddle!

We'll be weaning our calf soon -- he's just over 4 months. We'll be hearing all that incessant mooing as well.

 

[animalfarm]

Royd, I am curious where you got the name Yani from. We had an Egyptian desert dog we named Yani. In Arabic, its the equivilent of 'uhhh or ummm' that gets inserted in our improper sentences when speaking. Our Yani is now living it up in Germany as she wasn't allowed into Canada and we found her and her sister Ishta a home with a German family before they left Egypt. They were a cross between a wild dog and a fox. I picked them up in the desert when I was training my endurance horse. The police had just done a wild dog execution and the puppies were starving.

My Belties have longer smoother hair then yours solids. Is this something that is different between oreo cookies and plain Janes? You have teddy bears and I have yaks. Its interesting.

 

[elevan]

They are adorable! Which is a good thing cause I'm not so sure of what I think about having a heifer with my name :/

All grassfed, huh? This is gonna sound like a really dumb question but I'm gonna ask it. Do you go through a lot of hay in the snowy winter or do the cattle dig in the snow to get to the grass under it? (This is my first year with cattle... I have a calf...so our first winter and I am doing purely grassfed and I know you get more snow than I do).

 

[redtailgal]

Wow, they are much shaggier than I imagined!

Thanks for the pics, she is quite lovely. Had she just been tat'ed? I see the green in her ears............