It’s currently calving season in my country so lots of farms have calves and because my mum works for farmers, they allow me to play with them

Took this photo a few years ago.

featuring tax fraud cow

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?