laura_nash
Well-Known Member
We went down to the field to check our cows a few days ago and found this fellow happily running about!
We bought a couple of old Dexter cows with young calves at foot last year (mostly to keep the grass short for my fat cob). There was a delay in the delivery and it was obviously long enough for the bull to do the deed for the one who'd calved first. She was pretty underweight when we got her (the farmer was selling them as "they won't manage another winter on the mountain") so we didn't think anything of her increasing girth.
Her last years calf is still with her, but his mum has weaned him no problems and the only issue we have had with him is a bit of over-protectiveness when we went to ear tag his little brother. Both he and his half brother seem quite enamoured with the new addition and often babysit when the mother is grazing.
Fingers crossed our future calvings go as smoothly!
We bought a couple of old Dexter cows with young calves at foot last year (mostly to keep the grass short for my fat cob). There was a delay in the delivery and it was obviously long enough for the bull to do the deed for the one who'd calved first. She was pretty underweight when we got her (the farmer was selling them as "they won't manage another winter on the mountain") so we didn't think anything of her increasing girth.
Her last years calf is still with her, but his mum has weaned him no problems and the only issue we have had with him is a bit of over-protectiveness when we went to ear tag his little brother. Both he and his half brother seem quite enamoured with the new addition and often babysit when the mother is grazing.
Fingers crossed our future calvings go as smoothly!