Your bike in front of a gate pics

[briantrumpet]

They are bullocks. Dem's boys. No udders kinda gives it away.

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They don't have udders till the are growed up girls and have babies - till then they are heifers, but might have a slight lump in the middle where they were attached to the umbilical cord in the womb. The boys (steers) would still wee from their middle and have more of an obvious hairy protuberance there, even if their testicles have been unceremoniously removed.

OTOH, if you've seen these wee from their middle rather than the back end, I'll concede the point.

 

[briantrumpet]

In other news, I was very naughty, and parked my bike here. Mind you, it was true, the gate was being used. By me.

 

[Willd]

Cold misty gates

 

[tyred]

Nice old wrought iron gate. I noticed a few of these around this area. The local blacksmith must have had a an artistic streak as all old iron farm gates at home were just boring flat iron without the fancy twists.

 

[Pinno718]

They don't have udders till the are growed up girls and have babies - till then they are heifers, but might have a slight lump in the middle where they were attached to the umbilical cord in the womb. The boys (steers) would still wee from their middle and have more of an obvious hairy protuberance there, even if their testicles have been unceremoniously removed.

OTOH, if you've seen these wee from their middle rather than the back end, I'll concede the point.

I worked on a farm aged 14 onwards.
I live adjacent to a dairy farm.
We live in one of the highest milk yielding areas in western Europe.
The muscle development on those bullocks is quite different.

Observe:

Bullock (no sign of udders despite it's size)

 

[briantrumpet]

I worked on a farm aged 14 onwards.
I live adjacent to a dairy farm.
We live in one of the highest milk yielding areas in western Europe.
The muscle development on those bullocks is quite different.

Observe:

Bullock (no sign of udders despite it's size)

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You'll have to explain to that 'steer' why he's got teats.

For context, I was a herdsman for 14 years.

 

[Pinno718]

You'll have to explain to that 'steer' why he's got teats.

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For context, I was a herdsman for 14 years.

That's not teets. You're a pain in the bum.

 

[Pinno718]

We can settle this: the next time i'm up that way, i'll take some pics of back ends.
Cute?

 

[briantrumpet]

We can settle this: the next time i'm up that way, i'll take some pics of back ends.
Cute?

Simple test: if they wee from their bums, they aren't steers. I've seen enough heifers' teats to last several lifetimes, and was dealing with 800 cows' teats per day (that's 100 cows with four teats x two milkings per day). The farm produced about 750,000 litres of milk per year.

Someone once tried to correct me when I said I put my hand up the cow's rectum to do bovine AI (artificial insemination, not intelligence), so I gave them a detailed anatomical description of the process.

I'm also an expert cattle hoof trimmer.

Playing the trumpet is a somewhat less smelly job though. Generally.