Ruby red calf no6 riggit galloway cattle

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]Thursday the 14th.

[00:00:04]So, I have made several attempts to make this video over the last few days. Now, the reason why I've made lots of attempts, I'm trying to document this lady here, C. So, I've had a lot of false starts. She is now 14 days over 9 months.

[00:00:24]And since the last video, I've been expecting her to calf every day. So I would start off in my morning, I'd have my buildup and then I would realize that she's not going to get sick and she's not going to calf. So that is the situation. But today now I can almost say, well I actually will say I'm certain that this lady is going to calf within the next 10 hours.

[00:00:49]Uh so we have moved the cattle in. We can see our ponies are up here in the hill. I'm moving the ponies in directly after the cattle. So, I've given them this big area this morning. Um, they were in where the ponies were. I've given them this big area this morning.

[00:01:04]I'm going to give our heer plenty of room and plenty of space to have our calf. Now, she's not sick, but she's very close to being sick. As you saw in a few of my videos, the three signs I'm looking for is the full swelled other.

[00:01:21]Good girl. Good girl. Now, this lady is literally like a rock. Her four teeths are full and sticking out like this. She is super slimy today. And she is fully sunk. As sunk as any force calf heer could ever be. So, she's super quiet.

[00:01:40]She's super docile. Um, she's a force calf heer. I'm not as anxious about this lady as I was with H motherless May up here.

[00:01:51]Um, I don't know why, but I'm not that she's just a little bit broader of a heer. Now, she has carried 14 days over.

[00:02:00]So, I'm expecting that she'll have a bull.

[00:02:03]Now, she could have any amount of colors. It could be red, it could be black, it could be belted, it could be solid, it could be rigot, it could be ron rigot, it could be all of the above.

[00:02:15]So, I'm not going to stay too long on this. So, I do believe that today is the day we're going to have our second last calf.

[00:02:23]So, uh Ruby's daughter is next. So, let me just do a quick on scan and then I'll close down and I'll be back later on because I'm going to watch this lady every two hours and do a little bit of uh recording to see how we get on. After her, we'll be belting more. We have these It's kind of a cold northerly breeze we're getting now.

[00:02:44]We're getting showers coming in from the northeast, I think. Yeah, we have a low pressure over Scandinavia, high pressure over the North Atlantic, I believe. Well, it's that's the way the wind is coming. And uh so we're it's cold. I still have lots of clothes on me, and I'm wearing the hat. So, those showers are coming heavy.

[00:03:04]We kind of needed them, funny enough, but uh it's nice to see a bit of a blue sky after them. There's a bit of heat in that sun now. So, I will be back very soon and we'll keep an eye on Ruby's daughter.

[00:03:19]So, I'm still here. I'm just going to do a little size comparison. You can see there is Maverick and Maverick is a small, you could class a small dairy cow. So, you can see the difference in frame size.

[00:03:33]This is the frame size I'm going for now. They are. They're definitely small framed. But if you notice from the back how sunk she is now on that tail head either side. Now that is really open.

[00:03:47]Super open.

[00:03:50]She's completely gone here. And this lady is hairy and fat. And she's still showing that complete dip.

[00:03:59]Maverick. Come on.

[00:04:02]God help us girl.

[00:04:07]No.

[00:04:12]Absolutely. Fourth and last 2:00 in the afternoon.

[00:04:22]Now, I did not expect this, but our heer is there lying perfectly content and quiet and tuning our code.

[00:04:36]So, it's going to be another while.

[00:04:41]I'll be back.

[00:05:02]So, half four and I just think she's starting to get really uncomfortable now, even though she looks fine.

[00:05:08]Um, I'm going to leave her off for another couple of hours.

[00:05:14]I think she's just starting to get a little bit sick. That tail is relaxed looking now, but before I started recording, she looked a little bit humpy, so I leave her off.

[00:05:44]So, I'm just back down and it's after 8:00 in the evening. Now, I really had hoped this morning that we would have have had our calf up and sucked by this hour. Now, I'm still debating on whether she's going to cal at all this evening.

[00:06:02]Most likely she won't, but it could be a middle of the night job again. I was hoping that that wouldn't happen. Um, so she's doing a little bit of getting up and lying down, but uh she's way too relaxed for anything to happen very very very soon. So, um, I think it's going to be, uh, what are we now? 8:00. I'm going to have to come back down again around 12 before I go to bed. And then I'll judge I'll judge then on what I'm going to do.

[00:06:31]So, um, yeah, she probably would calf away by herself anyhow, but I want to be here, especially these first calf efforts. But, uh, I'm going to check at 12:00 and then I'll decide at 12 whether I have to get up if she's sitting like that or lying like that at 12:00 tonight.

[00:06:49]Um, I will have to uh make a decision then.

[00:06:53]So, I'll be back.

[00:06:56]Typical. So, we're what is it? Half 11 at night and I'm just walking into the cattle and I can hear a cow call in her car.

[00:07:07]So, it seems like we have a cow at the cabin and I missed her. Can you believe that? She didn't look sick at all. And now what have we?

[00:07:18]She just had a cabin.

[00:07:25]What have we? How are you girl?

[00:07:29]Why have we here?

[00:07:35]Calf like herself.

[00:07:37]Very same Markans.

[00:07:41]A calf like herself.

[00:07:44]This has to be a bowl. Let me see the edum.

[00:07:52]How is it? She didn't look sick so much.

[00:07:56]What have we there?

[00:08:00]That's a bull, is it?

[00:08:03]What have we? I don't know what it is.

[00:08:07]That's a heer, is it?

[00:08:12]Good girl. Is that a heer you have?

[00:08:17]Look at that.

[00:08:20]God almighty.

[00:08:24]Sh. I don't understand this at all. I was here at half 8. Shi saw and she was perfectly fine. I left at 3 hours.

[00:08:39]I kind of knew she was very relaxed though.

[00:08:44]I should have hung around.

[00:08:47]That calf is only up.

[00:08:50]Let me see. Is that a heer at all?

[00:09:05]That's a heer. Why can't I tell?

[00:09:10]God mighty.

[00:09:13]That means I can go to bed.

[00:09:20]A red heer. I didn't even mention that.

[00:09:25]A red heer with the exact same markings as herself.

[00:09:30]Not a rigette, but a heer.

[00:09:38]I already know she's going to be a great mother. I'm not one bit worried about that.

[00:09:45]How well she carried so long.

[00:09:48]I have to say now this sounds terrible.

[00:09:50]I'm a small bit disappointed she didn't come with the line down her back, but that's that's neither here nor there.

[00:10:08]But we just don't know what's going to come. But it's amazing how they all came red.

[00:10:13]I think when Mac came, little Mac, see him over there?

[00:10:17]>> When the first calf came so white, And then straight after that, then the second calf came a rig. I thought, "Oh, these are all going to be rigets." And we never again had another one.

[00:10:31]And we know for a fact now that belty mo is going to have a black belted calf.

[00:10:39]>> But that is amazing.

[00:10:44]>> I can't believe I missed it. I really can't. I thought I was watching this one super tight.

[00:10:50]I go away at half eight.

[00:10:53]I left her for three and a half hours.

[00:10:55]Half 8, half 9, half 10, half 11.

[00:11:03]That's amazing.

[00:11:06]>> That is amazing.

[00:11:09]A red a ruby red mother.

[00:11:16]And we have a red belty mac.

[00:11:23]At long last, I had a feeling this lady would calf away by herself. I had no real worry about this lady. And we know now that Max's having super handy calves.

[00:11:36]And she's so quiet. There's no fear.

[00:11:39]This lady is rejecting. You can already see the the the head on her that she wants that calf to suck.

[00:11:46]She knows exactly what she's at.

[00:11:53]>> So the cow we had that rejected her calf belty bug, it was a very unusual thing for that to happen, especially with the gaways.

[00:12:06]Very unusual. I think it was a hormone problem she had because when she rejected her second calf, M >> when she rejected her second calf, she was mad for ming cows. That's all she could think about was trying to bull cows coming into heat. She would follow them up all day long. She was obsessed by them.

[00:12:35]I can't believe this is all over and done with already.

[00:12:40]I was coming down here sure thinking I was going to have to get up at 4:00 in the morning. She seemed too relaxed at half eight.

[00:12:50]She was a hard one to tell, I tell you.

[00:12:52]>> Is that white down her leg there? No, it's not.

[00:13:08]I wonder has that calf socked?

[00:13:11]That calf has soaked already. Look at that.

[00:13:15]Oh, for God's sake.

[00:13:18]I'm I'm well late.

[00:13:20]This fella is ready to go to sleep for the night.

[00:13:24]Look at that.

[00:13:28]So, we have this we have that teeth there sucked.

[00:13:33]Good girl. Now, don't you get contrary now, girl. You know me. I'm all right.

[00:13:39]>> Yeah, she has sucked.

[00:13:47]Let me see.

[00:13:58]Oh, yeah.

[00:14:01]That quarter is empty.

[00:14:03]So, the front driver seat in in in Ireland anyhow >> is emptied.

[00:14:12]Job done. I can go home and go to bed. That calf is born, soaked, and down for the night.

[00:14:26]There's a bit of an antilimax with me to be honest with you. I was expecting a bit of a night.

[00:14:35]Fantastic. Let me just scan on through.

[00:14:37]Look at the rest of them here.

[00:14:42]There's the mighty Mac. I'm going to have to call him Mighty Mac. Let me see.

[00:14:47]There we go.

[00:14:56]Maverick.

[00:15:05]So that's it. Calf number six is on the ground. Another heer. So we have four heers and two bulls.

[00:15:14]Four heers, two bulls.

[00:15:19]And we have Where's Belty Moore? We have this lady left now.

[00:15:25]And that's it then.

[00:15:28]And that's it then for 2026.

[00:15:31]Right. I better say good luck. So I might actually add another bit to this in the morning. You get a look at her.

[00:15:37]That's what I'll do. I'll say good night for now, I suppose. But I won't say good luck till tomorrow.

[00:15:46]That's unbelievable.

[00:15:55]So, last night I was half dozy and half blind. So, I'm coming into my calf now to see what we actually have for real. Have a look at She's a heer.

[00:16:11]All right.

[00:16:15]But it's nice to see her in the daylight. Here we go now.

[00:16:22]She's very like um she's very like the last little heer calf we had. So this lady is 34 gallowway 25% short horn. So we have 50/50 short horn galloways. We have Maverick's calf then is a mixture on horse side. We have two 75% getaways and we're waiting on a 100% getaway next. The one and only What you think?

[00:17:03]I'm going to get this calf up.

[00:17:08]>> Isn't it funny? Now, this lady is the quietest heer in the world. But for the first time ever, I've noticed that uh she's literally looking at me to say, "Stay away. This is my calf."

[00:17:20]>> Look at that. And I'll tell you now, the crack. This lady doesn't like me too close.

[00:17:27]She is the daughter of where is she?

[00:17:34]She is the daughter of Red Claire which is she's down there somewhere. But that's her half sister there. Micromac is her half brother.

[00:17:44]The only cow that ever kind of acted silly with a calf was her mother.

[00:17:54]Yeah, I remember moving them one time and uh she was only after Calvin and she got a little bit contrary. She did a little bit of a dance, but I just let her roar on her and she settled down again. But yeah, I could see her doing that. Now I'm going to give this calf a slap while she's not looking up.

[00:18:18]Well, she's definitely out for a stretch. A nice hairy calf at that.

[00:18:28]That's a nice calf.

[00:18:31]Lovely soft hair coat.

[00:18:37]That's a better looking calf this morning now than she looked last night.

[00:18:43]Now that first calf heer is a little bit nervous of me around this morning.

[00:18:49]Let me just go to the back end of rejur.

[00:18:51]Good girl.

[00:18:53]You're all right, my girl.

[00:18:56]Don't you know we're good friends?

[00:19:01]Don't you remember me?

[00:19:09]She's right to be anxious.

[00:19:15]I'm very happy with that calf. So that's four heers and uh two bulls and all eyes are going to be on Beliemore now. So I'm going to end this video now. It's getting long, but she's definitely uh very protective of that calf, more so than any of them this year.

[00:19:42]>> Definitely she will settle down in a few days.

[00:19:49]I'd like to see that calf now sized up with um the other lady. Is she coming?

[00:19:55]Here she is. Now, let's have a look at this other lady. This is the last calf now. She's a week older or two weeks, is it? I can't remember.

[00:20:03]Maybe two weeks.

[00:20:08]She's a tough little one, this one.

[00:20:13]She's as hardy as they come. up here.

[00:20:15]Garam me. She's gone back down again. There's a bit of growth in that calf already.

[00:20:23]You can see it.

[00:20:26]There's the two heers there.

[00:20:35]Right, we'll end this video. We'll leave that cow. Settle in. She's a small bit nervous.

[00:20:44]and I don't want to upset her.

[00:20:48]So on that note, the sixth successful caven of the year. We have one more to go and then we can concentrate on a bit of movement, bit of grass grazing and then we have the breeding season to contend with. That's the thing I have to think about yet. Right, I would say good luck and goodbye.