The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Cattle => Topic started by: country soul on January 01, 2012, 09:14:05 pm
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following on from my post below.the calves have landed!
We are now the proud owners of two belgian blue cross heifer calves.despite being belgian blues the only have a little blue on thier ears other than that they pure white.They are 3 weeks old and came directly from a local diary farm.
They seem to be doing ok and are starting to nibble a few pellets as well as milk.
I,m not for naming animals as a rule but they have become know as Frosty and Snowy
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Sound delightful. I think some photos would be lovely to see
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Brilliant - love the names. And pics would be good :thumbsup: :cow: :cow:
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Oh, lovely. Yes, please, pix!
There are a lot of white British Blues now, and the AI folks seem to carry triple mixes of three white bulls - which gives optimum fertility apparently, but does mean you don't know which of the three actually sired your calf.
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that will be pooled semen if it is like pigs you cant register them :farmer:
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Aye, you wouldn't use it for pedigree breeding. country soul's calves are out of dairy cows, so won't be pure bred anyway - and we use crossbreeds in our suckler herd to get the characteristics we want.