I run my cattle on 240 acres or hard access terrain. I bought some cows at the sale barn in October one said 5 months the other said 6. The one that had the big 5 on her hip calved I am guessing overnight Wednesday night when her "due date" according to the preg check at the sale barn would have been about 4/1. I noticed her bloody tail when the cows finally came up yesterday afternoon, after spending 4 or 5 days out in the nice weather not wanting/needing to come up to eat. I thought she had aborted! I locked her in the front pasture so I could keep an eye on her and last night when I went out to get firewood I heard a loud moo. I thought that this cow or one of the other ones that was bagging was missing one of their buddies. It was starting to snow pretty good and a couple of recent babies were in that trap, so I just decided to let all the cows together so they all had access to the loafing shed. This let the suspect cow back to having access to the 240 acres. This morning she was MIA, so I went looking for her and found her out pretty far with her little heifer calf. IT is 28 degrees with up to 2 feet of snow in some areas. She seems to be mothering the calf and the calf followed her momma off a little ways WADING through the snow after I had sprung her from her nap. I thought she was a dead calf curled up in the snow. I know cows are hardy, but I have never had a calf in such poor weather conditions. The lucky part is that it is not THAT cold, but with the deep snow I worry about the little tyke. Getting them back over here to where the loafing sheds are is probably not possible. I hiked on foot to get to her this morning in waist high snow. Should I let her mother take care of her or get aggressive about getting them over here (which might involve a horse, a sled, and a very pissed off momma)? I just have never had to deal with thsi before!