Cattle in the snow
Finally an update with some photos. Our cattle are enyoing the snow (and unlike we they seem to be immune against the low temperatures). … Continue reading →
Schrimpfengut
Babies first smiles
Here some pictures of the newest calves: … Continue reading →
Golden Eagles at the Schrimpfengut
No, we don’t have those birds here (although since quite a few years kestrels have their nest in our barn). You might have noticed that this year we are expecting quite a few progenies of BFG Steinadler (the german name … Continue reading →
Farms Of The World on Twitter
What would the world be without smartphones, tablets and social media? For me those things provide distraction while using the public transports (the conservations there really aren’t that interesting). On the Twitter Account “Farms Of The World” each farmers from … Continue reading →
The old lady…
…doesn’t stand for a soccer club at our farm, naturally. It’s Pompadour’s nickname since quite some time now. The 15 year old cow had calf Nr. 14 in April with a calving interval of 363 days and an insemination index … Continue reading →
Retrospects and prospects
Obviously since I started working (which includes lots of time in front of a computer screen) I’m treating the blog more as an orphan. So you’ll get an overview of 2015 and some details about 2016. We didn’t participate in … Continue reading →
More homozygous polled cattle
First of all, all the best for everyone in 2015! A few days ago we got the results of the polled gentest from Bayer-daughter Jolene. To her name I can now add PP*. So genetics were kind to us: all … Continue reading →