New cow, any guess on breed?

[greybeard]

You folks with all that knee deep GREEN pasture are killin' me down here.

6 months eh? Let us know when the calf comes'

aggieterpkatie--I should have been more specific--I meant "4 yrs and only 800lbs is hard for me to fathom", but I'm used to looking at heavier beef cattle.

 

[77Herford]

Hard to judge an animal's weight by a photo, especially an unknown breed. I don't personally know anything about Aryshire, but have seen some really heavy dairy cows. 4yrs and 800 lbs is hard for me to fathom, but again I am not really a dairy person. Beef cattle frame is different, but here's an 11 or 12 month old beefmaster/brangus cross that scaled right at 400 lbs and is (est) about 41" tall at the backbone.

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400 lbs at 11 or 12 months sounds VERY small for that age. I was thinking 800 lbs was small for an Ayrshire too. Were you thinking it soudned big?

I agree completely. I acquired her 1 week before this pic was taken, as well as her 1/2 sibling male in a trade for some fencing work I did for one of my family members. (same sire-different momma cows) They were part of an overstocked, under culled herd that was on very poor 30 acre pasture, drought stricken, not well taken care of at all. Still sucking, never wormed, no vaccinations, fed a little hay and pellets with the adults about once/week, and the adults kept the 2 "calves" away from the feed bunks for the most part. I thought she had some potential as well as the male, so I took 'em on. They are now doing better in a 8-10 acre pasture to themselves, fed 2x per day as well as mineral supplement. As soon as I can get them up front to the pen and chute, I'll have the vet come out and check them out. The male:
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Now, back to the original subject.

Yep, she's definitely rolly-polly. As wide as she is tall.

Looks like a Bradford

 

[greybeard]

Looks like a Bradford

I guess ya meant Braford. If so, it's from reccessive traits, as there hasn't been a Hereford or Brahman in the small herd it came from in well over a decade. That herd began Hereford heifers and a Brahman bull but after only a few calves, the bull was killed by some miscreant shooting from the roadway. The original Hereford stock was sold, keeping only the offspring heifers, and a Brangus bull was introduced for a couple of years, with poor performance, then he was replaced with a Brangus/Beefmaster cross bull, with all his calves showing predominantely Beefmaster traits including red coloring. I remember 1 brindle in the lot. That Brangus/Beefmaster bull was the only herd sire for at least the last 10 years. The 2 calves i've pictured here are both unique to this sire. The heifer is the only offspring with black/white coloration and the bull calf is the only one i ever saw out of that herd to look so much like a Hereford. There were NO replacement heifers or cows brought in for as long as I can remember--just inbreeding, so it's not surprising that some odd coloration/conformation would crop up this far down the line.
I really should just put the bull calf in the freezer--and might yet.
(now where did I put those budizzos?)

 

[Snowhunter]

You folks with all that knee deep GREEN pasture are killin' me down here.

6 months eh? Let us know when the calf comes'

aggieterpkatie--I should have been more specific--I meant "4 yrs and only 800lbs is hard for me to fathom", but I'm used to looking at heavier beef cattle.

I wish we had ankle deep green grass... knee deep has me envious! We've been feeding hay since July :/

As for 4yrs and 800lbs... thats my Jersey Well, right around that age (according to her teefers)

After lookin at the big beefers in the other pastures... Jezzie and Speckles are downright TINY!

 

[WildRoseBeef]

You folks with all that knee deep GREEN pasture are killin' me down here.

6 months eh? Let us know when the calf comes'

aggieterpkatie--I should have been more specific--I meant "4 yrs and only 800lbs is hard for me to fathom", but I'm used to looking at heavier beef cattle.

That pic of mine was actually taken around four or five years ago around June, I believe. No pasture here, as it's all brown and dry, but yeah, we certainly had some really nice pasture then.

 

[SlowMoneyFarm]

44" sounds more Dexter cross than Ayrshire. Way too small for an adult Ayrshire. Shorthorn x Dexter maybe. If it was northeast maybe Devon Dexter. Smaller size sounds and looks even smaller than Jersey. .

 

[austintgraf]

She isn't Ayrshire. They are larger framed and their colorations are more distinct, higher pine bones as well. I would say shorthorn cross, shorthorn-crosses have been in demand lately, and was probably bred for that reason.

 

[Nes]

That is a shorthorn.

This is Hilda

She is also a shorthorn .


Shorthorns are not tall, I haven't measured mine but I'm 5'2" and much taller then them.

 

[Snowhunter]

I can't find the height averages for Shorthorns on the net.. is it just my weak googlefu? I checked the Milking Shorthorn website and didn't see it...

Speckles is doing very well. She's settled in nicely. She won't come very close to me unless I have food, and even then, she won't eat from my hand. We didn't get a chance to get her up into the headgate and haltered this past weekend, so I'm aiming for this weekend instead. Gotta wait for Hubs to be here, since we have to cut my Jerseys horns and bolus em both, and w/a halfway broken headgate, one hasta hold it shut while the other works