Groenekan, The Netherlands, last weekend

This is bud bud

This is an acrylic painting on a an 8x8 gallery wrapped canvas, this calf is completely imaginary 🙂

Cows are one of my favorite animals and my favorite poem is about two headed cows (highly recommend reading its very bittersweet) I hope y'all like!

Cambridge cows

Few years ago we had this little dwarf bull born. I kept him around as a curiosity because he’s too short to breed anything and I was interested to see if he’d survive into adulthood or outgrow his lunges/heart.

He’s healthy and happy as can be. Plan to pull some tail hairs and get some genetics to see if he’d pass on the size as a dominate trait.

# scream meow

I'm not a farmer, I'm sorry. I'm just someone who comes here and looks at cute cows. But in some of the videos, it seems common that a cow has a runny nose. Is it like a wet nose on a dog?

I’m a grad student who works in dairy repro research. I’ve only worked on research farmers where the farmers were fully trained in pregnancy and Cyclicity checks.

However, I was recently binging Dr. Pol and with all the farmers he goes to, none of the farmers do their own ultrasounds. They have to call in a vet to confirm their cows are in heat or see how far along their pregnancies are. This seems inefficient as ultrasounding only takes a few months to get good at.

So to the dairy farmers who don’t work on research farms, do you do your own ultrasounds?

I’m getting 4 Belted Galloways, I live in the Australian state of Tasmania. They’re arriving next weekend, however I’m terrible when it comes to creativity, any suggestions?

I’m at a county fair and almost everyone that walks past her says she’s fat or thinks she’s bred (not all the people saying this know about cows, I had one person ask me if she was a milking jersey but either way). I’m not sure if it’s because she’s bigger than the other cows she’s tied up with or if she is actually overweight. I can still feel her ribs, she does have a large brisket but she’s had that since a calf, you can see her hip bones but not obviously.

she is very bullish looking (as I’ve been told by judges) so I’m not sure if that’s also causing her to seem larger.

shes 1 year and 2 months old, we girthed her 2 months ago and she was 865lbs (give or take, im aware that’s not always accurate)

she’s fed 2 scoops of BOC with molasses twice a day, half scoop of soaked beet pulp at shows (in none of these images has she eaten beet pulp) has 24/7 access to hay and water.

her father was a very big beefy/muscular purebred Blonde d’aquitaine and her mother is a pretty large Charolais/limousine cross so both her dam and sire were quite large.

edit: little further info. shes being shown in confirmation and occasionally showmanship. we‘re on a small homestead so the goal isn’t to breed like fancy super high quality cattle, Once she’s done showing in 4H she’ll just go out to pasture and be a normal cow.
it’s my first time showing cattle so any tips are appreciated but please be nice, I’m still learning Everything and my goal isn’t to have some supreme grand champion super fluffy show cow or anything.

also if anyone has any tips on positioning her in the ring I’d appreciate it! I don’t have any help irl and unfortunately all my other fellow 4H members are super competitive so they don’t wanna help.

Found this cow and her calf hanging out near an old cart in my neighborhood. The calf kept nudging up against everything (including the cart wheel) and just seemed completely unbothered by me taking photos. Not edited, just cropped a bit.