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Post by genebo on Jan 4, 2016 1:08:45 GMT
Legacy Eve of Paradise's calendar due date is today. I stayed close all day, watching through glasses or walking out to her. She has begun separating herself from the herd just a little bit.
Tonight I took a square bale to her, but that brought the rest of the herd to her. I swear she gave me a dirty look for doing it. Maybe not, but she did move away. I took a single pillow to her and stood there grooming her while she ate. She's such an easy-going cow.
Her coat is so smooth and shiny. She glows in the dim light. When I finished grooming her she looked like a show cow except for her shanks, which were coated with red clay. I had tried to brush off the red clay, but she didn't like it and walked away.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2016 2:00:29 GMT
morning? you are not going to check her tonight?
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Post by wvdexters on Jan 4, 2016 3:27:31 GMT
Exciting!! I always feel like an expectant Grandma while I'm waiting.
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Post by genebo on Jan 4, 2016 19:09:17 GMT
He's here! Eve went into labor at around 9:00 this morning. That's when I saw her first contraction. She walked away from the herd and into the woods. She couldn't find a spot that suited her, so she kept moving, with me close behind. By 9:30 she hadn't made any visible progress and my bride told me that "a watched pot never boils." So we went for breakfast.
I was back by 10:15, just in time to see her turning to begin licking her calf. Steam was rising off of him and light snow was falling on him. McBrenn was crowding Eve, mistaking her scent for a sign of heat. I tried to determine the sex of the calf, but he was still coated thickly. I went to get a square bale for the rest of the herd so they would leave Eve to her work. It worked! In just a few minutes she had him cleaned completely and it became obvious that he was a bull!
A big one, too. The largest calf I've had here in years. 35 pounds. I could barely hold the scale with him in it. He's strong, too. He was soon standing and searching for a spigot. As soon as he found one, I went home.
  
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Post by otf on Jan 4, 2016 20:30:09 GMT
Glad all is well and calf is nursing. Now, tell us how to pronounce his name please.
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Post by jamshundred on Jan 4, 2016 23:18:13 GMT
Congratulations Eve! Gene, is McBrenn the daddy?
The little guy looks to be wearing his winter coat and good thing that is! Brrrrr. I noticed today that there were Iris plants coming up in a flower bed about 6 inches tall.
Judy
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Post by genebo on Jan 5, 2016 0:52:55 GMT
Cuigiu is pronounced Kwoo-jew. It is the Irish word for fifth. Mac Cuigiu means fifth son. He's her first son, but her fifth calf. Her calves are:
Inion (daughter)
Dara Inion (second daughter)
Triu Inion (third daughter)
Caethru Inion (fourth daughter)
Mac Cuigiu (fifth son)
We call Caethru Cathy. We will call Cuigiu Cujo, after Stephen King's big dog.
He is McBrenn's son. We know all of his DNA results except for color. We hope he inherited Eve's red color gene.
He is:
Horned
Chondro non-carrier
PHA non-carrier
Black
does not carry dun
A1/A2
We will pull tail hairs and have him fully DNA tested for documentation.
Dara Inion has a son named Adam One that carries red and is A2/A2. That is Eve's grandson, second generation Windridge. He is due to be collected one of these days. He is a beautiful bull. He won a blue ribbon at the 2015 ADCA AGM.
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Post by Blessings Farms on Jan 5, 2016 1:05:02 GMT
Congrats Gene . Calving is a joy not ?
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Post by genebo on Jan 5, 2016 2:07:43 GMT
Dave, you nailed me! I enjoy calving as much as any other part of keeping Dexters. My cows are such easy calvers that they cause me no real worry. Just joy.
Have you ever been there when one of yours had her calf?
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Post by Blessings Farms on Jan 5, 2016 10:27:44 GMT
Not the Dexter YET lots of herford, houlsten and goats can't wait until
next year . Should have 6 a d two from Brene.
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Post by otf on Jan 5, 2016 14:09:22 GMT
Gene, I hope the new calf is warm and safe on the coldest day of the year! It was down to 15* last night here but very windy on top of that.
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Post by genebo on Jan 5, 2016 15:50:01 GMT
I checked on him first, this morning. His coat was all fluffed out and he was moving around easily. He and Murtagh stood together and were almost like twins. Murtagh is 3 weeks old, and was a small calf. Cujo was a big calf (35 pounds). They are practically the same size today. They're going to be best buddies, I think. Murtagh is staying very close to Cujo. Punkin is a couple of weeks older than Murtagh, a couple of inches taller. She stays closer to her Mama.
I watched for a while this morning to see if Murtagh is nursing from Eve. When Cujo had his head in there, Murtagh looked like he was wanting to. Eve didn't seem to mind. Once before, Eve let Rudy nurse while Inion was nursing. Inion got the front teats and Rudy got the hind teats.
Here's the happy family from back then: Eve, Inion, Rudy & Judy. Rudy drinks from the hind teat.
 
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Post by wvdexters on Jan 5, 2016 16:16:04 GMT
It is chilly out there isn't it...... So glad everything turned out so well. Happy calves/Happy mamas
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Post by LoriG on Jan 11, 2016 0:11:52 GMT
Congrats on a beautiful calf! Pics are great. Reminded me of my Aurora with her Ajax this fall. Always makes me smile.
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Post by genebo on Jan 15, 2016 17:27:15 GMT
Got test results today!
Parentage and Genetic Marker Report for Mac Cuigiu of Paradise(LEG2336):
Mac Cuigiu of Paradise L02336TH-16HH qualifies as an offspring of Legacy Eve of Paradise L00584H-10HH and McBrenn of Paradise L01848TH-14HH.
Extension and Dun Result:
Ed/E+ B/B - Animal is black, carries red, cannot have dun offspring.
Bulldog Dwarfism BD1 Result:
N/N - Normal, does not have the Dexter BD1 Bulldog mutation.
PHA Result:
N/N - Normal, does not have the Dexter PHA mutation
A2 (Beta Casein) Result:
A1/A2 - 1 copy of A2 present. If bred to A2/A2 animals, 50% of offspring will be A2/A2
Cujo carries red, adding another Traditional bull that does so to the American Dexter herd.
Four out of five of Eve's calves have inherited the red gene. Now if Eve and Dunder can make a Legacy bull calf that carries red ....
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Post by jamshundred on Jan 15, 2016 21:44:09 GMT
Gene,
Sure wish I could find a straw of Yom Kippur. There were a couple of straws left with a man in PA but he cannot find them. Probably tossed them out.
Otherwise it is and has been a slow process.
Gene, Rafter Dee has Peerless Pirate on both sides of his pedigree, and it is PP that is supposedly the carrier of the red that turned up in the US lines. I am willing to use a straw for a color test . . . .. . .or if you want to use him for AI with Dr. Forfa, we can have him squirt a bit in a container during an AI breeding and send that in for color testing. We do not know if he is carrying red or not because there was not enough sample left to test him last time around.
Judy
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Post by genebo on Jan 16, 2016 0:57:29 GMT
Judy,
I'm not so anxious to use Rafter Dee, since Eve has two flaws that were not evident in her dam. I am content to take the long way to red with Dunder.
I have already made tentative arrangements to pick him up tomorrow.
This is going to work if I live long enough. When it does, I want the calves to be as well configured as Ms. Fermoy was.
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Post by jamshundred on Jan 16, 2016 1:42:13 GMT
okie-dokie
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Post by Blessings Farms on Jan 16, 2016 8:13:09 GMT
Congrats Gene . It will work .
Dave.
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