We got Mini Hereford Cows!
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- čas přidán 6. 07. 2024
- Meet Hudson our bull, and Dilly our cow! They're both miniature Hereford's. They're just shy of 4' tall. Some people have horses, we decided mini cows were a better fit for us. They are both friendly, although I think Hudson will need a little more one on one time once he's settled in more. A lot of people have never heard of mini cows before but as you can tell they're really cool and we're super excited. They both came from different parts of the USA and Canada so we're looking forward to breeding them one day.
Just picked up my first Hereford today for my birthday
Nice work
Omg she's so cute!!!
She just had a bull calf on Oct 15th!!!
Use a 6x6 post for the gate
I’ve done that on our other gates. Problem being is rock. Most of our property is all on bedrock ranging from 0”-6’ of dirt covering that bedrock depending where. Drilled into the rock, put huge thick rebar into the rock, bored the inside of the posts, then hammered the posts on. They’re solid/not going anywhere but keeping it stable for a gate post is a problem. Since then I’ve done bracing and concreted the gate posts as good as I can :) it’s fine now. The wood posts were annoying and trying to be cheap for
This first pasture area isn’t gonna fly for the next pasture area I need to fence. I’m thinking of drilling into the he rock and driving metal t posts and doing wood/concrete for the gates etc. With bracing where necessary. I got 6x6 yellow cedars for our gate posts at the house and they look nice
You need to get portable electric poly-braid and control moving cows around pasture Greg Judy-style, putting em on fresh grass each day. Mow behind them what they don't eat/trample to spread fertility and knock back weeds, giving grasses a boost.
If you just let them free-range the whole pasture, they'll eat down all the desirable grasses and you'll eventually be feeding hay cuz your pasture's full of inedible weeds, and you'll have parasite problems.
They’re on hay right now. I was mowing that whole area and the grass is done for the year. They nibble at it. But yes I have a second area planned for them so I can rotate. The breeders had a setup similar to ours and pretty well fed hay only. We are hoping to get our grass growing back there for them in the spring, and plant everywhere where it used to be blackberries or over run. We got here in the summer time and the property was mostly neglected so it’ll take a while
@@Darren1767 it’s amazing how people can get their homestead/farm to work. Guy we buy hay off of runs 25 full sized Hereford on 4 1/2 acres. Feeds hay and grain all year round and his cows are some of the happiest cows u can meet.
At one time full size Hereford Cattle were prone to pinkeye, cancer eye and prolapsed uterus's. Have you evber had these problems with mini Herefords. You sure healthy and gentle stock.
We only had them for about 9 months. We wound up moving and downsizing. They were really nice though and a nice lady up the road bought them from us. We didn’t have any issues with them but honestly it’s quite surprising we didn’t see any pink eye with the amount of running around poop they do. We even had a bad fly season too.
@@Darren1767 Ok Thanks for your response Have a great day and stay well!
@@kl1958 you too eh!
you people make smart move
Thanks man! They’re really fun!
Where did you get them?
From some really nice people who’s daughter was breeding them before she went to nursing school. They wanted to downsize their flock as she went to school.
Any update on them? Is she expecting?
No calf unfortunately
@@Darren1767 hope they are doing well
@@quailjailss she had a bull calf about 3 months after we sold them. We moved due to real estate and the cost of both of us working 10 and 12 hour days with commuting. It was a fun experience but wow was it a money drain. The cost of building materials skyrocketed the summer we moved in and started building and we spent way more $ than we anticipated building the barn and doing the fences. Expanding the field turned out to be harder than I thought because a lot of that property was sitting on bedrock and a few inches of soil. I had to rent a rock drill to get some of those fence posts in, and concreted a few of them.
@@Darren1767 happens more often than not.
Glad y’all got the experience though and hopefully prepares you for a future experience with other livestock :)