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Livestock => Cattle => Topic started by: Susannah on June 12, 2013, 10:00:36 am

Title: My fat cow has done it!
Post by: Susannah on June 12, 2013, 10:00:36 am

Early Monday morning and all by herself! A wee heifer. All looking well and contenet. Am over the moon. too busy to work out how to send pictures at mo. will try later. ;D :excited:

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Post by: goosepimple on June 12, 2013, 10:12:47 am

Superb Susannah, that's fantastic, stress over  :relief:   :thumbsup:

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Post by: Anke on June 12, 2013, 10:35:04 am

Great!  :thumbsup:  and a girl calf too!
 
I am envious, am not allowed cattle, at all   >:(  (yet... :innocent: )

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Post by: sabrina on June 12, 2013, 10:49:36 am

 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

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Post by: jaykay on June 12, 2013, 10:58:37 am

Excellent  :thumbsup:

Just reminding you about photos......  ;)

Title: Re: My fat cow has done it!
Post by: Susannah on June 12, 2013, 12:53:40 pm

a quick try at photos

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Post by: Dan on June 12, 2013, 03:46:54 pm

 :thumbsup: :cow: :thumbsup:

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Post by: Rosemary on June 12, 2013, 03:48:35 pm

Congratulations! I take it Scilla is your Shetland? Is the calf purebred?

How exciting! Is mum OK with you handling the calf?

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Post by: Susannah on June 12, 2013, 04:47:57 pm

Yes the calf if pure. She went to Rudy a red bull hence the name Penny and not Ethel!

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Post by: Mammyshaz on June 12, 2013, 06:12:33 pm

 :love: congratulations on your new arrival. Glad there were no hiccups for you or mum  :relief:

Title: Re: My fat cow has done it!
Post by: Rosemary on June 12, 2013, 07:21:44 pm

Quote from: Susannah on June 12, 2013, 04:47:57 pm

Yes the calf if pure. She went to Rudy a red bull hence the name Penny and not Ethel!

Ah, Trondra Rudy? Nice bull.

When are the other two due?

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Post by: lachlanandmarcus on June 12, 2013, 08:03:32 pm

Lovely pics and wow that udder!! Looks like there will be plenty available at the milk bar :-)) :trophy: :thumbsup: :cow:

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Post by: Factotum on June 12, 2013, 10:52:42 pm

Lovely calf, well done to mum.

Just love piccies of calves, almost as much as I love watching them skipping about in the fields.

Title: Re: My fat cow has done it!
Post by: Susannah on June 13, 2013, 07:47:33 am

Thank you for all your comments. I still have a stupid grin from ear to ear!
To answer Rosemary
Molly the Moilly is due tomorrow, she also is pure and went to an Irish bull so :fc: The Beltie is not pure, her sire was a Vaynol so I put her to an Aberdeen Angus bull and she didn't take, although there is a small chance that it was too early to tell when she was scanned. So just have to wait and see.

Title: Re: My fat cow has done it!
Post by: Miss Piggy on June 14, 2013, 04:49:40 pm

Congratulations, I know the feeling of that grin well, the excitement never gets less  :excited: