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I'm sorry to read that you lost a calf, but believe your timely intervention on the first cow probably saved a calf. Given the hand that you were dealt, two dead calves would have been '... not a good day." I guess it's all relative, and I prefer to think you salvaged the day as best as was...

That's a very nice setup. Here's hoping that all your calves are healthy and your stanchion proves to be insurance that you don't need to collect.

Thank you, Walnut, for posting this. It is very interesting. I spent a few hours reading the linked article and references cited in the linked article, and I finished by telling myself I need to re-read all of it to absorb more details. That's the sign of an excellent post! Ebenezer makes an...

Happy to share it. Twenty-five calves were noted as "hard pull" and a disproportionate number were from a single calving group, which I attribute to causation - poor bull selection. Five calves were scored "C-section or extreme traction", but from the notes I see that three were C-sections...

After gleaning this board for information and insight for a couple of years, perhaps I have a contribution that may be mildly interesting. We purchased and calved 225 first-calf heifers in early 2015. Half were black baldies from a single supplier, and generally a feedlot-like development...