naming your cattle.

billonthefarm · Apr 20, 2009

After all the calves come this spring we will still have only about 40 head of cattle so we get to know them pretty well and some of them have interesting personalities. So they get a name hung on them.
I named the new bull bob. We named one cow nosey b!tch. We have steers named, T-bone, boots, chuck, lucky, heinz, pinky and snugglebunny.

We named this pair of twins shake and bake.

Now this cow calf pair belongs to my friend nick. He has been trying to come up with names for them and hasnt had any luck yet so if you have any ideas lets hear'em. She is two years old and this is her first calf. The calf is a month old heifer and they are purebred angus.

bill

Anonymous-0 · Apr 20, 2009

Steak & Shrimp?????

greenbeanman in Kansas · Apr 20, 2009

I would have named your calves differently--at least from their photos.

The one standing looks like it has the continent Africa on it, hence Africa.

The other looks like it has a surgeons mask complete with string tie, hence Surgeon.

Surgeon and Africa now those would be unusual monikers.

Jared Olson · Apr 20, 2009

i like Shake N Bake

phillip d · Apr 20, 2009

Molly and Mae?We name all our cows too,they're registered holsteins and almost always get the same first letter in their name from each generation to the next.We use our prefix on them all and usually their sire's name is their middle name.Example,a Jenny-Lou Marshall 149 daughter at our place,select sire code name Lou from a cow named Style got named Westcape Lou Superb.A cow family we have had for many years at home comes from some of our ansestors on my great grandmother nee Rayner's side,so those get a suffix of R at the end of their name.Sorry if it's all borring information,but that's how they get named here.pd

James Howell · Apr 20, 2009

Years and years ago when I was about 9 or 10, my father made a deal on 10 newborn calves with a local dairyman.

The dairyman sold my father each newborn calf for $10.00.

The calves were a cross-breed brahma/jersey.

We ended up with 2 bull calves and 8 heifer calves.

Of course we had names for each one; I can recall Bambi, Brownee, Tipper, Essey, and Blacky.

Didn't get to "close" to the bulls because I knew they would end up in the freezer.

My job was to feed all ten calves twice each day.

My father bought "powdered" calf milk by the 50lb sack.

Put 1 cup in a 1 gallon aluminum bucket and added water.

When the 10 buckets were ready, I would set them on the ground in several locations in the back yard.

I would use the wooden mixing spoon to "bang" on one of the aluminum buckets.

Go open the wooden gate and get out of the way of the stampede.

The calves would run into the backyard and go to the next available bucket.

They would start off by standing and drinking the "milk mix".

As they would get closer to the bottom of the bucket, they would get down on their front legs.

Once the bucket was empty, they would "sling" the bucket in the air with their heads.

When the bucket hit the ground, they would run to it and "sling" it in the air again.

Big smile on my face now; thanks for the memory.

Get the kids involved in naming the calves; they can be really creative.

Enjoy your photos; keep them coming.

Old Roy · Apr 20, 2009

For the two black un named ones , Mom Bossy, Daughter Becky.

rrlund · Apr 20, 2009

Some of them just speak to me somehow and name themselves. Most are just faces in the herd.

Stan - Florida · Apr 20, 2009

Bill,

When I was a kid over in central Indiana, our milk cows had names, too. The only ones I remember are Mary, Bess and Horney...this one had horns, and they were all supposed to be Polled Shorthorns. I spelled this one's name differently the first time, and I think it may have been misinterpreted. Seriously, I'm glad the incoming messages are screened for inappropriate words.

Stan

RayP(MI) · Apr 20, 2009

We named ours after comic strip characters. You know, like in the funny papers. Old timers will remember "Ada the Ayrshire" a comic in Farm Journal. That cow was in the thick of it every month. Well, so was her namesake. That was a strategic mistake of collosal proportions!. My hat's off th Walt Wetterberg - author of Ada. Mush have had considerable cow experience.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 20, 2009

Another snugglebunnie, I thought Ryans hound had the naming rights to snugglebunny

Just kidding Ryan

Get me that quote on that roof

Dave from MN · Apr 20, 2009

We have Daisy, Lucy, Alice, Gramma, Charger, Longnose, Shorty (nicest darn cow on earth, Crazy,Simmi, Red Bull. Crazy will be grillin meat in about 100#"s

justanothercase · Apr 20, 2009

i calve out over 150 hd. so i dont have names for them. but it seems that all the problem cows get names. did just name a calf today,an older cow had twins and wont be able to care for two so i pulled one off and will bottle feed it until i can either draft it onto another cow or it can fend for itself. named it "nnalert" it's a black angus calf and ear tag just happened to be 21. Dads got one weve been helpin a heifer take care of its name is "Rupert", im not sure how the name came up but thats what hes called.

730 virgil · Apr 20, 2009

we have registered Highlands. each year has a different letter 2008 letter was v 2 i named a bull calf Volcano as he is always ready to erupt little guy is all bull as he already struts at 3 months old. letter for 2009 is w.
so we will name each calf with a w name.

wd45diesel man · Apr 20, 2009

some of the names i had for the cows could not published on here

Nancy Howell · Apr 20, 2009

Hmmm. I"d like to see the names of your calves when the letter gets to x, z, q, u, y.

olgentdc · Apr 20, 2009

Had a Brahma cross cow that I called HEE-MONEIE,!! .. got names for , square head , battle axe , Mouse Hair ,cuz'n it, skunk-face , dip schi--,foghorn trumpet, Tornado (whiteBlaze face marking ) and smarta--,and other names that cant be printed ,, The herd Angus Bull is a pet I got from a friend who named him OL'Bill

730 virgil · Apr 20, 2009

i know q z aren't used. no zorro here.

Eric SEI · Apr 20, 2009

We used to name our cows alphabetically. We had a cow named Xeno.

gitrib · Apr 20, 2009

We have purebred Guernsey's.Female first letter in name is always same as dam. Prefix name is sire name. Idle Knot Perfect Nancy>Sire Profecto.dam.Nan--Daughter>Idle Knot Golath Nikita.Sire Golath>dam Nancy. Got a whole family>Nancy.Noel,Natasha, Nikita,Nora,Non-Stop, born on the trailer coming back from Madison
Whenyou hang up the signs people know it is a family. once in a while we throw in Dumb A$$
gitrib

Todd-L · Apr 20, 2009

Phillip for Fill up the freezer.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 20, 2009

My wife names the cows and calves (still no problem eating them). I name the bulls. We currently have 2. Lyle and Norm.

Fawteen · Apr 21, 2009

I didn't notice the outline of Africa until you mentioned it.

I'da named him Cowbama...

RBnSC · Apr 21, 2009

Chocolate

Anonymous-0 · Apr 21, 2009

One Thanksgiving there were about 20 family members eating away and having a big time when one of the Nephews said "ole Tom tastes pretty good don't he?
You could hear everybody drop their forks on their plates and most of the kids left the table.

northener · Apr 21, 2009

My favorite name for a cow is Maude because my grandfather always had a Maude milk cow.I can remember Hank Snow singing the Wabash Cannonball in the barn(on the radio) at milking time. Grandpa always said the music soothed the cows.Those are special memories I have now of the good old days.

formerly ny bill · Apr 21, 2009

our registered holsteins still are called by names, not numbers. the calf's name starts with the same letter as the dam's. i have been here for 30 years and over 1100 milking cows on test during those years, so some of the names have been repeated, and some get quite creative.

SuperCmore · Apr 21, 2009

How about Michelle and Maliah?? Cmore

cj in wisconsin · Apr 21, 2009

What about Zelda, and Quentina?

kyplowboy · Apr 21, 2009

I still have the heifer my grand dad gave me when I was 14 (am 31 now). She has had the name B!tch for the last 12 or more years. She ain't mean but she is always getting her self hurt and has been in the head gate so many times that she gets pretty hard headed when she gets close to it. Bull's named Knothead, asked the guy I bought it from if he had a name, he laughed and said he called'm all Knothead. Before this bull we got bulls for 20 years from a guy named John. They were all some kinda John names, Pappa John, Bad John, Big John, One Eye John, Little John,,, The wife named her two heifers we got from her parents they are Rosie and Daisey. They are half herford X herford/Gert cross so they kinda stick out here with all the black angus that are on the hill. We had a cow named Ewok one time, she was born durring a bad cold snap and her ears just about froze off, couldn't put a tag in her ear so just called her that.

Dave

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