Sunday night I learned about heifers, cows, steers and bulls!!
If the moms are moved to a new pasture and calves don’t come right away, moms will feed in the new pasture, go back to nurse calves, head back to feed on the new pasture and after a couple of days the calves eventually will follow the moms to the new pasture if they don’t do it initially.
Matthew and Suzannah will keep female calves to grow the herd. Males they will either sale at the auction barn at 6 months or they are kept to go to burgers and steaks at 2 years old…they are called a burger cow!
They will keep the mom until 11 years old.
If they are a cow that jumps the fence or not very nice they become a “burger cow”!
Learned happy cows taste better!!!
Male cow is a bull, when castrated becomes a steer.
Young females are called heifers. Then they are first calf heifers and second calf heifers and THEN they become a cow!
Paddock is a smaller section within a pasture, or area.
Charolais breed of cow, white one, bigger framed beef cattle used for cross breeding. They can be aggressive.
Polled means they do not have horns naturally.
Angus are black and red.
Angus are more grass efficient smaller cows.
Tonight we enjoyed the crickets and the fireflies. I didn’t manage to “catch” a firefly but Suzannah did and shared!
Today 90 degrees for a high, at 10:20pm it was only down to 78 degrees.
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