Post by DostThouHaveMilk on Jun 7, 2006 13:06:12 GMT -5
Amistad is currently carrying a bit more weight than we really like to see on a dairy animal. She actually easily falls into the category of LA (Lard...ummm, well you know). Tracey, hush..lol
Amistad turned 4 on May 25th. She is 3/4 Jersey, 1/4 Norwegian Red.
Amistad calved wayyyy back in November of 2004 with a bull calf. She was in the milking herd until 3/31/06. By that time, she was down to about 13 pounds a day out of three quarters and packing on the weight! We have a one quartered cow who is producing close to 30 pounds a day right now. We needed space and she wasn't producing so she was dried off even though she wasn't confirmed pregnant.
She'd been bred at 5 times. The last time by me on 1/18 of this year.
When she was brought in to preg check a month ago, I couldn't tell. I thought she felt open....an overweight open dry cow? Not likely to settle with all that fat build up. However, she is bred! I checked her again less than a week ago. Due 10/24 to Missile-P (76J150-polled bull). She is naturally polled so that gives this calf a 75% chance at being polled! Here she is in all her overweight glory! These pictures were taken a couple of days ago;
Notice you can't see any ribs? She's rounded and not pointy at all!
Large and in charge. Again, you can't really see any definition to her whatsoever..just mounds and mounds of fat.
She's starting to get the rolls of fat on the rump area here. We've had cows with rolls of fat there calve. It is not pretty. Tends to beheifers that lost pregnancies and then do manage to settle again and give birth for the first time around 4 years old. The births are hard and it takes them awhile to milk the fat off.
She has 5 more months to go before she calves. She is now on pasture, minerals, and water. Has been for two months in these pictures. It isn't going to come off easily.
If your cow starts looking like this, you need to address their diet!
;D
Amistad turned 4 on May 25th. She is 3/4 Jersey, 1/4 Norwegian Red.
Amistad calved wayyyy back in November of 2004 with a bull calf. She was in the milking herd until 3/31/06. By that time, she was down to about 13 pounds a day out of three quarters and packing on the weight! We have a one quartered cow who is producing close to 30 pounds a day right now. We needed space and she wasn't producing so she was dried off even though she wasn't confirmed pregnant.
She'd been bred at 5 times. The last time by me on 1/18 of this year.
When she was brought in to preg check a month ago, I couldn't tell. I thought she felt open....an overweight open dry cow? Not likely to settle with all that fat build up. However, she is bred! I checked her again less than a week ago. Due 10/24 to Missile-P (76J150-polled bull). She is naturally polled so that gives this calf a 75% chance at being polled! Here she is in all her overweight glory! These pictures were taken a couple of days ago;
Notice you can't see any ribs? She's rounded and not pointy at all!
Large and in charge. Again, you can't really see any definition to her whatsoever..just mounds and mounds of fat.
She's starting to get the rolls of fat on the rump area here. We've had cows with rolls of fat there calve. It is not pretty. Tends to beheifers that lost pregnancies and then do manage to settle again and give birth for the first time around 4 years old. The births are hard and it takes them awhile to milk the fat off.
She has 5 more months to go before she calves. She is now on pasture, minerals, and water. Has been for two months in these pictures. It isn't going to come off easily.
If your cow starts looking like this, you need to address their diet!
;D