Picturing!!

Last week, we had photographer Ella Wright come to our farm to picture a couple of our cows and a heifer. The two days before picturing we kept busy with clipping and washing the cows. My older brother kept busy with uddering the cows. Part of this includes spending some time before picture day to see how many hours of milk each cow needs in each quarter to be nicely filled. They depeinding on how many hours they need and what time the cow will approximately be pictured at, he then had to make sure the quarters got milked on time.
Then when Friday came around, all the cows were washed in the morning and were fed so that they had a nice fill. We filled them by feeding them silage, hay, milk cow grain, and soaked beet pulp. Then once Ella showed up, we got the first cow ready and headed outside to get on with the harder part.
When picturing, you have one person on the halter, one person on the left side who takes care of the front left foot, someone on the right side who takes care of the front right foot, and someone behind who moves the back feet and holds the tail in place. Then you have the lucky person who gets to make noise to get the cow to put its ears forward. For us, the back legs seemed to be the most difficult to set up, but we got it done! We pictured a total of 4 cows and i senior calf. When the pictures come in I will definately post for some for you to see!!