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<blockquote data-quote="Jafruech" data-source="post: 1652397" data-attributes="member: 24025"><p>My personal opinion is that around here calving in January would eat up a lot of profit. Even assuming you don't lose any to the cold and don't have frostbite issues or losses...you're going to spend a lot of your time and probably some facility and energy costs doing so...then you have all your secondary costs. It costs a lot more to keep a cow in good condition and to have her gain back we'll when the wind is blowing 60 mph and it's cold out side. She's Burning more calories already just to stay warm. </p><p></p><p>I moved everything to mid April to early June. They have good condition going in, calve on green grass (or brown in a drought year lol), and gain back condition more quickly. No losses, no scours, no sick calves...sleep all night calving with less inputs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jafruech, post: 1652397, member: 24025"] My personal opinion is that around here calving in January would eat up a lot of profit. Even assuming you don't lose any to the cold and don't have frostbite issues or losses...you're going to spend a lot of your time and probably some facility and energy costs doing so...then you have all your secondary costs. It costs a lot more to keep a cow in good condition and to have her gain back we'll when the wind is blowing 60 mph and it's cold out side. She's Burning more calories already just to stay warm. I moved everything to mid April to early June. They have good condition going in, calve on green grass (or brown in a drought year lol), and gain back condition more quickly. No losses, no scours, no sick calves...sleep all night calving with less inputs. [/QUOTE]
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