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Livestock => Cattle => Topic started by: Rosieb on March 14, 2012, 03:34:31 pm

Title: First Calf this year
Post by: Rosieb on March 14, 2012, 03:34:31 pm
Hi all

My first calf of the year was born on Monday a very large Dexter heifer!

It was quite stressful and ended up being a C Section, mum and baby are fine though  ;D
x
Title: Re: First Calf this year
Post by: Rosemary on March 14, 2012, 03:46:19 pm
Congratulations! Pics asap, please  :cow: :cow:
Title: Re: First Calf this year
Post by: SallyintNorth on March 14, 2012, 04:18:43 pm
Quote from: Rosieb on March 14, 2012, 03:34:31 pm
Hi all

My first calf of the year was born on Monday a very large Dexter heifer!

It was quite stressful and ended up being a C Section, mum and baby are fine though  ;D
x
Lordy, that must be some calf!  Glad that mum, baby - and you - are all fine.

We've had our first C-section here, Monday as well.  Limousin bull on a Limi-cross cow; she'd overcooked him and at 17 days' over time, no way was he coming out the regular exit!

The bull is Ronick Cosmos, so I was anticipating the calf would get called Ronny or Cosmo.  He is a strapping great calf, but due to his mode of arrival he is known as Side Door  :D
Title: Re: First Calf this year
Post by: robert waddell on March 14, 2012, 05:32:53 pm
aye but that bull is scottish bred ;) :farmer:
Title: Re: First Calf this year
Post by: jaykay on March 14, 2012, 10:42:07 pm
 :D glad everyone is ok anyway - and where are the pics?  ;)
Title: Re: First Calf this year
Post by: Rosieb on March 18, 2012, 01:11:50 pm
Sorry I've been a bit slow with these pic's they're not the best either I'm afraid!

The first one is the calf just born & second at 2 days old  ;D
Title: Re: First Calf this year
Post by: Miss Piggy on March 19, 2012, 12:27:03 pm
Congratulations, what a beautiful calf she certainly is a big girl as you say.  :cow:  :wave:
Title: Re: First Calf this year
Post by: Rosemary on March 19, 2012, 02:10:42 pm
Mum and baby looking well  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: First Calf this year
Post by: VSS on March 19, 2012, 06:01:09 pm
Quote from: Rosieb on March 14, 2012, 03:34:31 pm
a very large Dexter heifer!


Surely that is an oxymoron  ::)