On our place our Spring calving is just starting, the first one is a couple of days overdue and tomorrow Summer starts. Calving is a bit late this year but the five cows are looking good and sporting nice shiny new summer coats. The first one is due to our old favourite bull Usurper and the rest are due to our RED polled bull Firestone. We are hoping for at least one coloured calf but strong healthy (girls) would be good. Our first calves from Gimlet our double polled bull are not due until April/May 2014, looking forward to them.
Meanwhile we have done another round of testing for polling and A2 milk. We have identified another two double polled girls which was just confirmation really as I always knew they were. One of the double polled girls has also tested A2/A2 for milk. She was one of a pigeon pair that I had to decide which one to sell so that made it an easy decision and the other has found a new home with a registered breeder friend of mine because she was double polled and A1/A2.
We still have the 2012 heifers to test for A2 yet to help in deciding who we are selling and which ones we are keeping for breeding. My calf pictures on this site are a bit out of date as it is those heifers that are shown as Autumn calves. We are keeping Henna the red one and Honey crème the Dun and they are doing lawn mowing duty at the moment. They are lovely girls and even quieter after we took them down to a Dexter display at the Bull and Barrel in Dardanup in October. They are from a very small line and most people thought they were calves and the kids just loved them. There even was a goat in the next door display that was bigger than them!!
Anyway must go and check on the "preggy girls" so maybe I will have some new calf photos soon.
Happy Dextering Gillian.