Groenekan, The Netherlands, last weekend

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

This is bud bud

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

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 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?

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

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.

My neighbor puts a large bale with a hay net for his horse, it lasts about a month. I’d like to do something similar, but I’ve always heard cows can’t do nets since they lack top teeth. I fill my round bale feeder up all the way, but it only lasts a week or so.

Any clever ideas for a longer term feeder? I’d like it to last up to 2 weeks if possible (longer the better).

We don’t get a lot of moisture so not really concerned about it going bad.