Brought home a new Heifer!

[boothcreek]

Terrible little me brought home a new Dexter Heifer from the Odd and Unusual Sale on Saturday.......

We have been thinking of getting an unrelated heifer or two for 2 yrs now, I seen her and just had to get her! They didn't know her age, but I am guessing her around 6 months, 8 at the max.
From what I've been told she came from a Petting zoo that went belly-up.
And it Shows, she is very tame, and someone made sure to teach the ground rules like no rubbing heads on people, using the horns and respecting personal space etc

Halter broken and brushable from head to toe! I can mess with her udder too and I just get a leg up so I can reach better I think I got my next milking dexter!!!!! YAY

One thing I am stumped on tho, I cannot think of a suitable name.........

 

[redtailgal]

lol, her halter is too big! and hot pink! love it! just watch that she doesnt get a foot hung in her halter.

What sort of names do you have for your other cattle?

We've named a few of ours..........Scarlet, Rose, Red, lol, see the theme?

 

[Cricket]

Oh GOOD buy! I've yet to see a Dexter in person, but have a really small Jersey heifer and see that you can buy Dexter semen. I imagine she'll name herself sooner or later!

 

[Stubbornhillfarm]

Very nice! Yes, I think she has much growing to do before the halter is a perfect fit, but the hot pink does look lovely on her! Pretty color.

Our heifer was named "Fancy" when we got her. The name didn't really fit her personality in my opinion so she is now "Reba" and it fits her quite well. Sometimes we call her "Hoover" (like the vaccum cleaner) because she goes around vaccuming up all the grain that the others leave on the ground. Funny thing is when I saw your heifer, the first name that came to mind was "Fancy"!

Thanks for sharing pictures!

 

[boothcreek]

We dont have any cow halters so a horse one had to do and they never fit right(and the hot pink one fit the best go figure ), and i didnt think she was halter broken. I thought I get her trained before putting her with the herd and she let me put a halter on her like its old news..... ok lead rope on and see if she walks with me.... and she did! Now thats a cool surprise.

She was just wearing it while I worked with her.

Just came in from watching over her while meeting our other girls and the bull. She was much more preoccupied with the amount of space she had to run. A 60 acre pasture beats a small petting zoo paddock I guess. She kept stopping every 50 yards or so looking for where the fences are. Then running back to the rest of the cows bucking and kicking like crazy bellowing as she went.

I don't think she is use to socializing with cows much tho, her approach to the others is very brash and un-cow-like, altho our 3 week old calf liked the approach and wanted to constantly play with her. But Abigail, his mom, didnt like that one bit and kept chasing her away from her calf(who in turn kept running after the fleeing newcomer... Abi was sick of it after 20 mins).

Our cows are Daphido, Abigail, Henry and Lil Red(well, big red I guess, not so lil anymore). We dont really have a theme, all of them we kinda met and watched a few days and went, s/he is a ........

Right now I call her "Little Mooo", gotta change that quick before it sticks haha.

She really is a cute little bugger, I hope I can get her all trained up for handmilking, she seems to have good handling basics in any case. I do hope she grows a bit more, cause she is right at the 3 ft mark. She should finish at about 41 maybe 42 inches I think, looking at her proportions and leg size.

 

[Stubbornhillfarm]

It sounds like you have some great entertainment going on around there! Not that I have a lot of time to just "sit and watch" but when I get a chance to, there is nothing better!

 

[redtailgal]

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.

 

[boothcreek]

It was great fun to watch her be a hyper happy cow. She found the wallow from our cows and was kneeling in it rubbing her head an chest in it, too cute. She is use to horses, but only minis so our regular sized ones don't worry her but she isn't sure how to approach them to say hi. She tried several times and by her face she seems to think yay a mini horse at a distance and her eyes get bigger and head gets higher the closer she gets and realized : wait a minute, them are big minis, and she stops short just staring at them.

Just came from town buying feed and I asked the clerk at the feedstore if they had halters for cattle, and lucky me they had 1 left, its one of those ajustable rope ones so its perfect. and it is bright RED

Red is such an unimagenative name, but thats all I could think of when our one cow was born. We have Blacks and Duns and one of our blacks gave birth to one of the most fire red calves I have ever seen. So as a baby she was always "little Red". Despite her firey colour she is one of the mellowest cows tho and without being trained to halter or stand or anything one of my best milkers(wave the milk bowl at her and she is bolted to the ground).

 

[WildRoseBeef]

Congrats on the good buy! Just wondering, but what are you going to do about those horns?

 

[boothcreek]

The horns stay of course.


I did a bit of a photo montague of our herd, it was so nice and sunny out earlier.

My view from the PC

Close up of the herd. From left to right: Abigail, Stew(last years steer for the freezer), this years lil tyke "Shorty", Henry following the new heifer, Red in the back and Daphido on the far right :

Henry with his new love, which I think I will be naming Ray-Ray:

Just cause he is cute, a pic of Shorty(yea yea I know his eartag is in the wrong way, held the tagger upside down and didnt notice):

And his momma Abi(lead cow and ruffler of all feathers):