Beef. It’s What’s For Diner.

Your ribeyes 🥩 are marinating -

Udderly Confused

Is this what the question means when asked, “if the carpet matches the drapes”?!

Asking for a friend.

This Is Udderly Cooling

This bull 🐂 is keeping a close eye 👁️ on his ladies as they wade in their pond and take a dip to cool off from this crazy hot and humid weather -

Luv that moo-dy water…

Those Ain’t Handles

Check out this stunning dude, WOW -

And his ladies -

Just down the highway and can often been seen out in the field grazing from 11e, so cool!

Yes, female Texas Longhorns do have horns too! In fact, female Longhorns often grow longer and thinner horns than males.

The horns are for natural defense but also to help regulate their body temperature, so now you know!

Either way these are stunning animals, especially seeing them up close!

How Precious

 And a 1 maybe, and a 2, and a 3...

This is udderly adorable 😂

They were all looking at me like, moooove along...

Speed Check

Certainly NO speedsters here!

MOOOOOve along 😂 but please be mindful of the posted speed limit -

Even monsieur bull was partaking in un somme -

The entire herd was lying down, which is so odd to me. I've seen it more and more since moving down here, oodles and oodles of cows lying down farm after farm.  Do you think they plan it or discuss it, so they're all on the same page.  Like this is their allotted break time, then up and at 'em time to get back at it - grazing, eating, pooping?!

A very good looking herd, White Angus, I'm guessing.

Udderly, Today's Best!

Who doesn't luv youngster Holstein cows?!

I realize this is a typical everyday sighting in some parts, e.g. Tennessee, however, around these parts, NOT so much.

These two were a bit skittish when I first approached the fence -

But it didn't take them long to work up the courage to come closer, with some coaching on my part of course, but still outside of arms reach -

One of the perks to being outside delivering mail.

Name The Breed

Can you tell me the breed of cattle in the picture below?!

Very unique markings, so easy to identify.

It's a Scottish breed.

Established as a separate breed in 1921.

Known for their maternal ability and high quality beef.

They're well adapted to cold and rugged climates

The answer is:

Belted Galloway Cattle!

**Photo cred to Emilie Frye

Sit! Good Cow.

Here's a unique site and not something you see very often.  A Hereford cow sitting like a dog!  This elderly lady had a full belly and basking in the sun.  It was a very cold day, single digits, when I visited my farmer friend.  She was as content as content can be.

MOO To YOU Too!

Three Hereford cow enjoying some fresh cut grass!

Moooove Over the Weekend is Here!

I am SO udderly excited that the weekend is upon us!

Enjoy!

Whatcha Got There?!

How You Doin'?

Where's The Beef!

 

Marshfield Herford's

 

These are just some of the many bovine my farmer friend raises.

The Baby Daddy!

 

Care to take a guess at what's uncharacteristic about this Polled Hereford Bull?

 

Hmm?

Two Moo Arrivals!

 

Here is a picture of baby calf number 1,a girl, with her mother behind her.

 

 

And here is a picture of baby calf number 2, also a girl.

 

They're about 3-weeks old in these pictures and only a couple of days a part in age.

 

Number 2 is shy, much more than number 1 but both adorable.  I could sit an watch them for hours.  The calf's are full of energy and constantly running and jumping and on the go.

 

There is one more expected anytime now.  Just hope that the weather cooperates, as it did for the arrival of these two above, and stays on the milder side.

Mother and New Daughter

Here is a picture of "Monkey Face", a Hereford-cross cow, otherwise referred to as a first-calf heifer, and her brandy new, three week old female calf. Mother and daughter are doing just fine and were out enjoying the 50+ degree temps of yesterday. Four more cows are due in the next 30-days, so hopefully the warmer weather is here to stay.

All I Can Say Is...

Bullshit!

Ox Skull - Wren Nest

This is a picture of the skull of a Brown Swiss ox or steer. This dude came from my farmer friend. It's hanging on the fencing of my old chicken pen at my dads. Time is going by so fast these days that I can't remember just how long I've had this hanging there but it's been quite some time.

I do remember when this dude was alive and a part of an oxen team that my friend would use on his property. Actually, my first experiencing at 'driving' an oxen team was with this dude and his yoke mate. They were named ZZ and Top and once again I can't recall which one this is? Can you guess who they were named after?!?! I'll give you a clue, a band from the 60's...

If I remember correctly, this guy died as a result of ingesting something metal. Typically, bovine have magnets placed in their stomach, their first stomach, to prevent this type of problem and subsequent death from occurring. Metal objects stick to the magnet, which prevent them from getting stuck when attempting to pass into their second stomach. But I digress...

The reason I began this rambling was to point out that a pair of House Wrens have taken up residence inside this skull. This is why the picture was taken from the back. Unfortunately you can't see the nest from this picture or when standing directly behind the skull and looking in but they fly in the center hole and drop down into their nest. Interesting location for a nest, as well as an example of how things can be recycled even when you think there uses have passed.

Simple Mathematics

Food for thought, item #1 plus item #2 = item #3 below -

Item #1:

Cow Takes Dip In Backyard Pool

Item #2:
Bull Shit

Item #3:
*Cement Pond

* Just want to reassure you that the formula above is NOT the cause of our cement pond issues.

Cattle

One of these guy's is the producer of said "Bull Shit" from previous post...

Perhaps, if I we had Mike Rowe here from the Discovery Channel's program "Dirty Jobs" he could tell us exactly which one is responsible for said "BS" but we don't and can only speculate. You'd have to be a fan of the show to understand what I am referring to and even then it might not make sense but who give a (bull) shit...

Actually, these dudes belong to a buddy of mine. Many of them were bought as calves still needing to be bottle feed. That was in the late winter, early spring. They're all doing fine now, eating on their own and growing like weeds. He spent quite a bit of time bottle feeding these guys and as you can see it paid off.