Our Cows

[Goatgirl47]

ok @Goatgirl47, i am officially jealous of the cows or part of them anyway. i love dutch belted and brown swiss both. use to do ai for a dr. friend who had dutch belted. what you gonna do with all that milk? they are all very nice. and the chicks are cute too.

Thank you! I have seven siblings and we drink a whole lot of milk each week. Right now we are only milking Stella, Candy and Harper, and we are letting Frankie nurse on Violet twice a day, unless I milk for the chickens. We share-milk with Sadie, Piper and Linus (Candy's calf), so my Mom only has to milk on week days.

 

[Goatgirl47]

@LisaR has your cow had her calf yet?

 

[LisaR]

Yes she has!! Sunday the 3rd. The hottest day of summer, it was 116! but she had a beautiful little heifer.

 

[animalmom]

Ahhhhhhhhhhh, now that is a sweet face, both of them.

 

[Goatgirl47]

Awwww, she is adorable! I'm glad you had a heifer!

 

[Poka_Doodle]

She is so cute

 

[LisaR]

Thank you! We're glad too she's a heifer, one steer is more than enough to deal with. She's growing up so fast, I let her out of their pen today so she could start getting used to it and she loved it, she was running all over the place and following me as I was getting ready to milk mom. She's very curious and doesn't seem scared of much so we will probably start halter training her soon.

You can see mom is worried about her leaving the pen, nothing stops her from eating.

 

[Goatgirl47]

I love her color!

What breed was her sire?

 

[LisaR]

A Jersey but I never saw him, she was artifially done. I love her color too, I'm glad she doesn't have any white like her mom, it's hard to keep clean.

 

[Goatgirl47]

I love white on our cows, and ours don't get dirty very often.

Oh, and to everyone who posted in this thread, I just wanted to tell you that we sold our Jersey cow, Stella. The reason why we sold her was because she wasn't bred back yet, her one year old heifer was still nursing on her, and because she had to have grain, and eventually we want 100% grassfed cows.