B05-070

Due to be flushed by end of September 2009 ... either Redbull or B07-002

CI07-019 - VETTIE

Vettie because he has such a huge rump! He is the second bull we bought, sired by Marula25 who is the sire of three of our other magnificient cows. We trust the breeding and know we are going to get some excellent cows and bulls from him.

JESKA - DLV08-01

Our first Boran wearing the DLV brand.

B07-002 - NEGA

Spelt the wrong way on purpose. He is our BEE bull... ok it is a joke. He is one hell-of-a-bull and we are hoping he is going to do great work for us in the future.

ANGEL'S KISS

Angel is as loving as my old girlfriend, Jeska who is currently at the embryo station being prepared for her first flushing. My heart was sore when I dropped her off, but Angel is making sure I don't get too lonely! From the day Angel was born she loved me and wanted to be near me, much to her mother's disapproval...

RED BULL

GUCCI

We called her Gucci cause she was 'wearing' fancy white boots when she was born We called her Gucci cause she was 'wearing' fancy white boots when she was born. She is our first embryo calf born on the farm.

DLV09-05

DLV09-02 PRINCESS' DAUGHTER

She has the same magnificent father as REDBULL, B05-098

Angel is now 2 months old and as beautiful as ever. She just gets better and better and better looking, like her mama B05-130... best of all, she is still besotted over me!

WEANING REDBULL

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Redbull has just been weaned at the age of 7 1/2 months, he weighed 268kg (67%) of his dam's 404kg which displays phenominal growth. He is coming home again this week.

DLV 09-03

The latest addition to our Boran herd, a young bull from B05-070 X B04-042, born on 02 Feb 09

MOMS AND THEIR HEIFERS

I just wanted to share this beautiful moment with you, as is our custom, we visit the cows in the kraal in the late afternoon after they've eaten their rations as all the animals are more relaxed then. It is also Jeska, Red Bull, Princess and the others time of the day for "LOVE" and "AFFECTION". Princess has been a bit 'offosh' since her daughter was born last week.

The new moms have formed their own nursery and they take turn to look after the calves whilst the others are allowed to forage. Here we have two of our favourite cows posing for a family photo with their calves.

JESKA

Our son, Jesse has wanted to be a 'vet-farmer' since he was about 4 years old. He loves insects and animals... and pests too. He named DLV08-01, a B96-615 daughter out of Forester Bull, and her name, you guessed: JESKA. 

She is a loving and adorable young heifer and has grown into a young lady. We will flush her in August 09 for the first time and hope she will produce embryos like her dam at a lifetime average of 15.

RED BULL

This is one my favourite photos of RED BULL in the beginning of summer, so young but so full of character and testosterone. 

RED BULL WHEN HE SAW HIS FIRST LIGHT

an old photo I found of RED BULL on the morning he was born. He came a bit earlier than we expected but was a pleasant and delightful surprise. At first BIG MAMA (B05-097), his dam, didn't want to let him suckle since her udder was very full, swolen and sore and she would kick the young man away whenever he came too close.

We tied her up in the crush and let him try and drink from her but that didn't work that well either... on the second day we milked her out and bottlefed RED BULL with all the cholostrum. Once her udder was emtpy and relieved from the pain she allowed RED BULL to drink from her.

For the next few days she was 'highly beding-esd' and no one could get close to RED BULL, but eventually she settled down when she realized we were no threat to her calf.

RED BULL 4.5 MONTHS OLD

27/01/2009

RED BULL (DLV 08-02) is our first Boran Calf born on the farm, 12 Sep 2008 from his prolific embryo producing mom, B05-097 and sired by B05-098 from Boran Genetics, the bull Simon has closed for the next two years to keep exclusivity. Adriaan Rall from SA Boran Society reckons it is the perfect Boran Bull. 

RED BULL will be a very muscular and long bull with a brood back. His dam is from the Boran milk line, 3094 - this is evident when you see how well RED BULL has grown up to now.

DLV 09-02

27 Jan 2009:

Princess (B05-113) gives birth to a beautiful heifer from the 'closed bull', B05-098 who also sired our pride, young RED BULL. Since Princess decided to give birth early in the evening, the whole family mangaged to witness the event. The boys found it astonishing that a calf can come out of a cows 'you-know-what'. We were over the moon to be blessed with another heifer calf and decided to call her 'gift', but don't know which language to use yet.

26 January 2009:

Diva's little Angel was born during the night. Diva is very, very protective of her calf and I dare not come too close. Later in the day she hid her calf so well that it took us a few hours to find it. Angel was lying dead still under a thorn tree, not making a noise.