We're getting down to the last couple of weeks of gestation for our Limousin cow, Becky. She was artificially inseminated (AI) March 31st from an Angus bull named Thunder. She has a due date of Jan 8th, 2020 but could drop a calf as early as Christmas. We'll likely name the calf Thunder Struck, it'll be a Lim-Flex (Limousin-Angus cross). This will be our first calving on the farm and we're hoping for a smooth, non-complicated delivery. We'll manage either way but ideally Becky can manage this, she's looking large and in charge as you can see from the pic below taken a few days ago. Our Jersey-Belted X just barely in pic on the left is due at the end of February. Unfortunately she failed to take on two AI attempts and we finally got lucky (or she got lucky) when our neighbor had his Angus bull in an adjacent pasture and allowed us to have her bred to his bull. So in a couple of months our herd will have grown by at least a couple of calves.
As we've been watching our cows and herd grow we've noticed our cow Belle doesn't seem to be getting any bigger. She's about a year old already and about as big as a six month old calf, in fact our six month old Angus steer just pasted her in height. You can see how tiny she is in the pic above, and honestly we're hoping she stays that small and also hope she's a viable heifer so that we can breed her to a Mini Hereford and start our own Mini Hereford operation. We'll have a better idea in a few months if she's going to get much bigger, and be patient because it takes a bit of time to build a herd. Here's to hoping we have a Mini!
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