Last night, we had a new delivery here on the farm. This time in the back of a pcikup truck. One of our neighbors dropped off a little 10-day old? bottle calf. He is:
50% Angus
25% Hereford
25% Holstein
In short, what that means is that he should turn out to be a very sizeable bull or steer (not 100% decided on that just yet, but leaning towards steer) that will fetch a pretty price at the sale barn once grown. He is mostly black and for some reason, in Texas, black cattle are worth more. (research into this seemingly local-to-Texas phenomenon indicates that black cattle have been favored here since the 1800s and the very earliest Texas "cowboy" days.
He currently gets a bottle twice a day.
1 comment:
I bet the kids love helping with that. How fun.
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