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Old 05-01-2011, 11:48 PM   #31
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Great news about your brother's progress. It's pretty remarkable he'll be going home this soon after such serious injuries.

The size of a cow depends on its sex, age, breed, and condition. A <1 year old Hereford beef steer or heifer will be off the range and headed to the feedlot at 800 lbs for finishing on grain, and slaughter at 1100 lbs. A Jersey milk cow will be out on the range until she's retired at ~three years old, and she'll weigh 2200 + lbs.
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Wow, that progress is great to hear!
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Old 05-03-2011, 02:10 PM   #33
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The size of a cow depends on its sex, age, breed, and condition. A <1 year old Hereford beef steer or heifer will be off the range and headed to the feedlot at 800 lbs for finishing on grain, and slaughter at 1100 lbs. A Jersey milk cow will be out on the range until she's retired at ~three years old, and she'll weigh 2200 + lbs.
I don't know much about cows except they eat grass and hay and that's where milk, hamburger and steak comes from, but I was told by my friend who saw it, this was a milk cow. Regardless of what breed it was it's too big to be hitting with a car!!

My sister in law called my mom last night after they got Terry into the rehab center and told her they were talking like he might be there 3-4 weeks. She said Terry told them he didn't think he could stand more than another week. I think he's getting tired of laying around doing nothing, because several days ago he told his wife he was ready to get busy doing something.
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They'll be working him hard with physical therapy. No worries there .

There are four main milking cow breeds in the USA: Jersey, Guernsey, Holstein, and Brown Swiss. Holsteins are the largest. I misspoke when I said Jerseys weigh 2200 lbs.

According to Wikipedia, Holstein weight is 1300-1500 lbs, Jerseys are "quite small" at 800-1200 lbs (average 1000 lbs), Guernseys (1000-1100 lbs) average slightly more than Jerseys. Answers.com says Brown Swiss cows weigh 1100-1500 lbs.
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Glad to here that your brother is recovering well, Ford Man.
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The best news yet came today. Tomorrow he gets to go home. Thanks to everyone for the thoughts and prayers, and also keep remembering him in prayer, he still has a long ways to go. I'll continue to keep everyone posted as he passes other milestones along the way.
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Terry went back to the eye Dr. and the surgeon that did his surgery today. Both gave him a good report. I think the surgeon wants to see him again in about 6 weeks. He also went in and worked about 3 or 4 hours last Friday, which I think made him pretty tired, but otherwise didn't bother him.
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Great to hear that your brother is doing so well. Hopefully he is out of the woods and will be back to his normal self very very soon.
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That's terrific news. He's a lucky guy, indeed, to recover so well from such a horrible misfortune.
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