29 September 2005

A nice bred heifer named Kita Belle. She will mature into an extremely large cow. Listed in the Show & Sale catalog as the sixth heifer in bred heifers class four. Owned by Bill & Betty Stone, Bells, Texas.





 

22 September 2005

A really nice profiling heifer. She is listed in the 2005 Show & Sale catalog as the second heifer in class three of the open heifers. Owned by Bill & Betty Stone, Bells, Texas.



 

This little fellow comes to you from JWest Cattle Company in East Texas. His sire is Elvis and his dam is Wilma, he was born on 8/27/05. Just a few days old in the picture.
 

15 September 2005

Daisy at the Savoy, Texas FFA booster club show. Picture was taken 9/10/05 just after Daisy & Heather came out of the show ring. Heather's dad, Butch Pugh is holding the ribbons. Heather & Daisy both did an excellent job on an extremely hot day. Their next show will be the Texas State Fair at Dallas on October 9, 2005.

 

8 September 2005

One of the things I like to see on a herd bull prospect is a wide chest floor.

1 September 2005

This bull calf is five months old in picture. He is a result of natural breeding, sire is a Halliburton Colonel son and dam is a Castleton Daniel granddaughter.











 

This brand new baby is just a few hours old in the picture and boy was he in a hurry to get to the dinner table. Can't even wait until he gets all four feet on the ground to grab a teat. Born 8/23/05 during the day and temperature got up to 102 degrees. This picture was taken about 7:30 Pm so it had cooled down a bit. My record keeping indicates the calf may be several days early and he only weighs 55 pounds. Heart girth measurement is a shy 25 inches. Quite a lively little gentleman though.




 

18 August 2005

This week's picture is from Joe Bigbee, Ravenna, Texas. Joe will be showing and offering for sale four head of bred 3/4 cows like this at the BWCAA Show & Sale on October 8, 2005. They are heifers that are nursing their first calves like the one inset at the top. Joe says he will have the calves weaned off and the cows in good shape be show day. Don't know about you but I wish my 2 year old first calf heifers were in as good shape as these right now, especially when nursing a 500 pound calf. And August in Texas? Joe must be paying the rainmaker?

 

11 August 2005

Donor cow, B&B 113G. She is a little over 13 years old. We went against the rules and flushed her 4 times in succession, production was 54 embryos in less than 9 months and only 4 on the last flush. Our best flushes were to Popeye and Woodbastwick Statesman, 18 and 16 embryos. This picture taken 8/10/05, just a few days after bringing her home from the reproduction center. It doesn't show up very plain in this picture but her udder is still much better than some of my much younger cows.



 

4 August 2005

I took this picture while on a pasture tour on August 1, 2005 so that is it's connection to cattle. Still under construction but is destined to be a Palace in Paradise, Cool Secluded Home in the country. It is basically all steel construction, pier & beam when most all homes today are on a concrete slab. Definitely one of a kind being built from plans only available in the designers head. There are not ceilings or attic crawl space. The design allows for cooling by self ventilation, it was hard to believe how much cooler it was inside that outside on a very hot August day. The first "U" shaped house I was ever in and I fell in love with it. This house is a very easy two hour "Show & Tell" presentation. A private tour that I am very thankful for having had the opportunity to take. Really an unforgettable experience.


 

28 July 2005

The Halliburton herd moving into a fresh pasture on a cloudy July day. I rather it was raining but still give thanks for a cloudy day in Texas in July. The recip cows and overmarked animals add additional color to the herd.



















 

21 July 2005

This nice heifer was born just before Christmas 2004, a nice Christmas present. She is an A.I. calf, only pregnancy out of six A.I. attempts and we're afraid she may be developing scurs. You can see those bumps on the side of her head but we have not got her up to feel of them.

14 July 2005

A new baby born on 7/11/05, definitely the wrong time of year in the hot Texas sun. As you can see most everyone and everything found the new calf at about the same time. Picture was taken about 7:15 am on morning of 7/11/05 after calf was born in the night. It is a 3/4 bull. The calf on left is a Huckleberry Finn E.T. bull calf, his dam was standard to a little under marked and 19+ years old at time we flushed her. The two on right are half blood heifers out of Holstein Cows.

7 July 2005

One of our youngest E.T. heifer calves and her recip momma. Sire is Huckleberry Finn and dam is a Randolph Turpin daughter. Calf birth weight was 70 pounds.







 

30 June 2005

This picture of my 6+ year old herd bull, Rito, was taken early in the morning on 29 June 2005. Rito has done a good job for me through the years.







 

23 June 2005

A nice 3/4 heifer by Halliburton Explorer and her dam is half Tuli. This is her second calf and she is doing a great job of feeding the heifer. Picture was taken late in the afternoon on 6/22/05.





 

16 June 2005

This week's picture is furnished by Brenda Buffington from Santa Fe, Texas. The mom is their show heifer named Molly, she has been shown at the Galveston County, Texas show the past two years by daughter rose. The baby is a  brand new heifer and is Molly's first. The cow was bred by BWCAA member Tracy Lewis, Robstown, Texas.
 

9 June 2005

Just like most babies, a nice resting spot in the shade within a few feet (inches) of a 10 or 12 foot drop off into a creek. Makes one wonder how any of them ever survive.