Best cow you ever owned

[Derrick Hughes]

I loved this cow, milked her heart out for 20 years and never missed a beat, I believe her father to be Castle Martin Black Gort

 

[Blue.]

Had a great Celsius daughter,was my avatar on BFF,lost her when she calved,she's buried in the croft.

Current favourite is a lookout daughter,I've no chance of getting a pic as she never stands still.

 

[jimmer]

shalama lindy merle
colossus of a cow that i bought at a sale ,never a days trouble with her and bred a bull by formation out of her

 

[mushnt grummmble]

best cow i ever owned,i'm still married to her

 

[C.J]

 

[multi power]

we had a cow at home bought as a second or maybe third calver, we had 10 hefier calves from her
she ALWAYS came in second left in parlour, she discovered that feeder would drop cake if hit

 

[DB67]

Had a cow a few years ago that always produced a good cow and she was a bit flighty but a real character.

She died on farm which was a shame but it saved from having to send her away which would have been hard to do!

 

[Tom.6420]

Challoch stylist ruth.my favoutite cow.

 

[borderterribles]

 

[Landy Nick]

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Looks like she's only got three legs.

 

[Walterp]

Choice between no 4 (a 20 year old cow that is still suckling 2 calves right now, that has had 16 calves) or my favourite, no 47, a cross Charolais born May 2001 that has had 11 cracking calves - one every year - and still looks like a young cow.

Haven't got a photo of her, but have of a recent heifer calf of hers called, unsurprisingly, 'Goldie', who is herself now an in-calf heifer. But we can't fathom how to breed more like her, without buying a Charolais bull and getting too big and bony for our purposes.

And a photo of some very cheap hay made last year, in the best hay-making season in my lifetime, just to remind everyone that Spring is around the corner.

 

[jimmer]

Choice between no 4 (a 20 year old cow that is still suckling 2 calves right now, that has had 16 calves) or my favourite, no 47, a cross Charolais born May 2001 that has had 11 cracking calves - one every year - and still looks like a young cow.

Haven't got a photo of her, but have of a recent heifer calf of hers called, unsurprisingly, 'Goldie', who is herself now an in-calf heifer. But we can't fathom how to breed more like her, without buying a Charolais bull and getting too big and bony for our purposes.

And a photo of some very cheap hay made last year, in the best hay-making season in my lifetime, just to remind everyone that Spring is around the corner.

some cheap hay made last year
would that be the stuff your son hauled back to your farm by mistake

 

[TheRanger]

Choice between no 4 (a 20 year old cow that is still suckling 2 calves right now, that has had 16 calves) or my favourite, no 47, a cross Charolais born May 2001 that has had 11 cracking calves - one every year - and still looks like a young cow.

Haven't got a photo of her, but have of a recent heifer calf of hers called, unsurprisingly, 'Goldie', who is herself now an in-calf heifer. But we can't fathom how to breed more like her, without buying a Charolais bull and getting too big and bony for our purposes.

And a photo of some very cheap hay made last year, in the best hay-making season in my lifetime, just to remind everyone that Spring is around the corner.

Not the one in your display picture then?

 

[Bojangles]

The best cows I have ever owned are the ones I hardly remember. Always in calf ,always calves themselves ,tag calf never think of it until sale time , never foot trimmed and never ill. If they have no story then they are prob your best

 

[Walterp]

Not the one in your display picture then?

It'd be like marrying Claudia Schiffer: we wouldn't know what to do with something like that - beyond our experience, our purse, our management capabilities and our ambitions.

As has been said, the ideal herd of cows is one that you hardly notice.

 

[Gareth Bryson]

This old girl held an embryo first time as a heifer and again first time the two years after that. Since then she has held to first insemination and produces the best commercial calf every year. the year before last her calf died at a day old (through no fault of hers) and she adopted a calf within 2 minutes and no hassle.

 

[Walterp]

That's a pretty competent-looking suckler - best replacement breed of bull to put to her , in your estimation?

 

[Gareth Bryson]

Simmental every time. need you really have asked.

although I am toying with the idea of giving her a Blelack Digger straw this year.

 

[JP1]

It'd be like marrying Claudia Schiffer: we wouldn't know what to do with something like that - beyond our experience, our purse, our management capabilities and our ambitions.

As has been said, the ideal herd of cows is one that you hardly notice.

Julie ever read your posts?

 

[Blue.]

Had a great Celsius daughter,was my avatar on BFF,lost her when she calved,she's buried in the croft.

Current favourite is a lookout daughter,I've no chance of getting a pic as she never stands still.

Celsius Meg 102.