sounds like terindakiss...look like branhams...calves were beautiful red/brown/black...... Im not in dairy farming anymore but its always bugged me why folks didnt keep using these for heifers...zero...
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sounds like terindakiss...look like branhams...calves were beautiful red/brown/black...... Im not in dairy farming anymore but its always bugged me why folks didnt keep using these for heifers...zero...
thats still a very high percentage...good on you for making effort to make the girls life easier on them.
my older sis used to AI all there cows,she not a very tall lady,if she had to stretch to reach cow,they got jersey straw...over time it dropped overall height of the whole herd...amazing what 30...
ok i feel have to poke bit of hard earned wisdon here....hooking calf onto block and cow being towed is not ideal...the usual set up is cow in head bail and rope DOWN to ground behind her....so angle...
you fellas shoul look into stats for them ones they had in late 80s...LIC were doing it out of hamilton,ruakura think it was......always stuck in my mind just how easily the heifers handled...
we have them here "pandas" the farm staff call them..beautiful animals and good to handle...as calves they fight you for two days then latch onto teat and stay on like limpet..tongue is different to...
some of the hype will possibly come from 5star feedlot beef...basically cattle beast eats ,shits n sleeps...doesnt need to walk far so just grows like stink,all feed is brought to them so no stress...
we had WILD red devons...as in proper wild herd,been feral for hundy years,they grow fast and have great nature if bred in captivity,great/awesome mums and milk not too bad either.....and that...
NOW you talking...back in 80s they called them tarindikiss spelt wrong but sounds right..... the AI folks were putting pure bulls across herd cows and heifers,the female calves were being shipped...