How now brown cow and why are your calves so black?
Normal white faced brown Herefords have been bred with Black Angus to create a black Hereford with an all white face. I don’t know if the owner of this herd has done so with this herd. Some farmers will cross with a Holstein and I think I see some Holstein features in a few of the brood cows.
Hereford babysitter

Nursing Hereford Mom

| Here’s a cow that I think has a Holstein appearance in the head and body. The fact that the face isn’t all white makes me think -black and white- Holstein.
Another very good possibility is some of these cows are Kiss groupies. This cow certainly looks like one.
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So the paternity of some of the calves is really up in the air.
Black Angus? Holstein? Gene Simmonds?
Looking at this calf I’m beginning to wonder. Even the eyelashes are a bit extreme. But it’s not just the face makeup that raises suspicions.
It may look like two calves

…but this one looks like it’s rehearsing for the stage.

The calves where not the only babies I spotted along the road today. I almost didn’t get a pic because mom and pop led the babes to high grass. Now these I never expected. It just seems way too early.

This is what I would expect.

A brooding pair of Mallards. Doesn’t dad look proud.