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Life has been anything but dull the last couple of weeks so haven't done much reading on lil beginnings but just had to share Maximus.

About a week ago my brother called wanting to know if I wanted a bottle calf, I didn't but as fate would have it one of our stock cows lost her calf during the snow storm we had come through a few days prior. We were on our way to my mother in laws Birthday party and told Lonnie to drop him off in the barn and I would tend to him when I got back.

I was quite surprised to find this in the barn when I got back.

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Maximus was a little better than a week old and 35# soaking wet, to give you perspective the average birth weight on our stock cows is 90#. He is out of a miniature angus cow and a brahma bull, note the "hump" on his back. He was only about 5" wide across his back, cuter than a button, cocker than anything that small had any right to be. His new mama thinks he wonderful as well as it took all of about 2 minutes for her to decide that she loved him, much to the kids dismay as they really wanted him as a bottle calf.

They just got moved out to the big pasture yesterday and Maximus is still cockier than he should be but I guess when you have a 1300# mama to back you up you can be.

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Anyways I just had to share, he makes me grin I find myself calling "Max-e-mus" like a wrestling announcer when I see him.
 
OMG he is so cute!!!!! I want one so bad but they are quite pricey unfortunately :DOH!
 
What a great story that your cow accepted him as her own...animals are truley amazing...and wow, he is tiny...and oh so cute!
 
Oh My God.......he is too cute!!!
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I love how he is curled right up next to "Momma", and how you can barely see him. LOL. We have angus also, I cant picture one of them with a mini calf. I am glad he has her to protect him from all the big scary things in thirs world......
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Is he going back to your brother when he is "all growed up"?

Too cute, thanks for sharing,
 
He is VERY cute. We got a bottle calf about a year(?) ago.....an Angus steer.

My problem is that Hubby got him for meat -- His name is Hamburger. But he's so friendly! I'm not sure if I'm up to being a farm girl.
 
He is VERY cute. We got a bottle calf about a year(?) ago.....an Angus steer.

My problem is that Hubby got him for meat -- His name is Hamburger. But he's so friendly! I'm not sure if I'm up to being a farm girl.
We raise Red Angus X cattle and one of our neighbors Charlois Bulls got into our pasture and we now have "Turkey", a white steer that will be hamburger. [You know the other white meat.
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Oh I just love a story with a happy ending!!! Max-E-mus is precious...and Momma sure thinks so too!
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OMG Was talking with Lonnie and he told me that he had a new heifer calf t-i-n-y and he sent me photos. Well if you though Maximus was cute hold on to your hankies.

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I hate that there is nothing to show just how tiny she is but she is in the neighborhood of 20-21". Maximus is still my favorite though.
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Yes this fall Maximus will return to Lonnie. Unless I can convince my husband to go the extreme calving ease route. I can not bring myself to call him Max, he is just too cocky for such a small name.
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Ohhhhhhhh so can't they just be pets? LOL

Do they having to be named Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner.

or in MaryAnn's case, Hamburger LOL

We've a rule at our house.......we never eat our friends....

So if it lives here it's a pet/buddy/pal/'kid'

Very very very cute as is the tiny tiny babee girl & her Mom!
 
OK...you need to stop posting these pictures!!!
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That little baby girls is just precious...and I love her momma too!! I keep saying that one day I'm going to get me a little minie cow....everytime I see pics of them it whirls that idea all over again!
 

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