Thewife
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A hundred years ago, dad wanted to AI some of the cows Hereford. I wanted Brahma! We made a deal, I had a couple of his cows bred Brahma, he had a couple of mine bred Hereford!
I ended up with four heifers! Bee(in my picture thread) Nip and Tuck, twins out of a 1/2 Holstein, 1/2 red angus and George, out of a 1/4 Holstein 3/4 Simmental(I think).
George normally hung out with her mom, Bee, Nip and Tuck became the farm juvenile delinquents! We got them into the barn and squeeze for their Vaccs and when Nip and Tuck started ganging up on any cow with an udder, draining her dry, we got them into the squeeze to put the weaning ring(?).
When we tried to put them in the squeeze for worming, Tuck got a little upset and ended up upside down in the squeeze! Needless to say we never tried that again!
I believe we were trying to move the herd out of a field, the day Bee, Nip and Tuck, jumped the fence to go live with the neighbor. Of course dad saw them do it, he was not pleased. After a few tries with grain, I was able to get two of them home, I ended up selling Nip to the neighbor!
One day, as we were doing a catch and sort, Bee showed us she could jump any gate in the barn! Tuck of course tried to follow! After that, we never tried to even put them in the barn!
Round ups were pretty easy! We would get the whole herd in the corral, and then call Tuck and Bee out by name. They would happily trot out the gate, then we could safely work the rest of the herd! Wormings for these two, consisted of, me hand feeding while Hubby poured from the loft!
Along the way, I picked up a few more Brahma crosses! Brandy, Holstein Brahma! She was a sweetie, a girl at the dairy raised her like a pet. She was the perfect example of a cow being too tame! I could do anything with her, but if it came to food or going in the squeeze, she would try to go right over the top of me! One day I let her into the barn alley way, to clean up some hay I dropped. When I returned later, she was in a pen with some heifers, enjoying their alfalfa? Not a mark on her or the gate!
Mary, Holstein Brahma, was a good one, gave me some beautiful heifers! So, they were a little wild and would head for the hills if you looked a them!(no, I didnt keep any of them)
Hank and Henry, Norwegian red Brahma, I milked their nasty evil mother at the dairy. They turned out to be good ones, but nobody seems to remember them! Henry did have a slight habit of eating over the fence, pushing the posts into the ground!
Now I have CC, Hereford Brahma, I think she is a little too tame too, Im working on that!. When they tried to load her up, she tried running over Hubby!
All of these ladies were good if it was just me around. I could tag and band calves, they would all come when I called. Brandy,Mary, Hank and Henry would even let me help teach their calves to eat!
I did learn a few lessons along the way, all names can be changed to Burger real quick!
I ended up with four heifers! Bee(in my picture thread) Nip and Tuck, twins out of a 1/2 Holstein, 1/2 red angus and George, out of a 1/4 Holstein 3/4 Simmental(I think).
George normally hung out with her mom, Bee, Nip and Tuck became the farm juvenile delinquents! We got them into the barn and squeeze for their Vaccs and when Nip and Tuck started ganging up on any cow with an udder, draining her dry, we got them into the squeeze to put the weaning ring(?).
When we tried to put them in the squeeze for worming, Tuck got a little upset and ended up upside down in the squeeze! Needless to say we never tried that again!
I believe we were trying to move the herd out of a field, the day Bee, Nip and Tuck, jumped the fence to go live with the neighbor. Of course dad saw them do it, he was not pleased. After a few tries with grain, I was able to get two of them home, I ended up selling Nip to the neighbor!
One day, as we were doing a catch and sort, Bee showed us she could jump any gate in the barn! Tuck of course tried to follow! After that, we never tried to even put them in the barn!
Round ups were pretty easy! We would get the whole herd in the corral, and then call Tuck and Bee out by name. They would happily trot out the gate, then we could safely work the rest of the herd! Wormings for these two, consisted of, me hand feeding while Hubby poured from the loft!
Along the way, I picked up a few more Brahma crosses! Brandy, Holstein Brahma! She was a sweetie, a girl at the dairy raised her like a pet. She was the perfect example of a cow being too tame! I could do anything with her, but if it came to food or going in the squeeze, she would try to go right over the top of me! One day I let her into the barn alley way, to clean up some hay I dropped. When I returned later, she was in a pen with some heifers, enjoying their alfalfa? Not a mark on her or the gate!
Mary, Holstein Brahma, was a good one, gave me some beautiful heifers! So, they were a little wild and would head for the hills if you looked a them!(no, I didnt keep any of them)
Hank and Henry, Norwegian red Brahma, I milked their nasty evil mother at the dairy. They turned out to be good ones, but nobody seems to remember them! Henry did have a slight habit of eating over the fence, pushing the posts into the ground!
Now I have CC, Hereford Brahma, I think she is a little too tame too, Im working on that!. When they tried to load her up, she tried running over Hubby!
All of these ladies were good if it was just me around. I could tag and band calves, they would all come when I called. Brandy,Mary, Hank and Henry would even let me help teach their calves to eat!
I did learn a few lessons along the way, all names can be changed to Burger real quick!
