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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1395327" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>I'm with you on that Sky; hate the cold weather calving. Glad you got him up and going.We shoot for last week feb at the earliest. And I do it "backwards" from so many, I hold my heifers and calve them in April/May after most of the cows are done. I want warmer weather, so that they are not dealing with the cold when they are trying to get it all figured out. It has worked good for us. I don't normally calve heifers in the fall, but had a group of 9 last year all within 30 days except 1 and they were done by Oct 1st. Calves have done pretty good. Will have some fall ones again next fall, but will have about 25-30 this spring. Got to get them preg checked next week, we have had them on grass and finally time to move them home. 9 went to visit the neighbors bull from the pasture where a tree took out the fence in back, so will be a little smaller than I like, won't hurt my feelings if they aren't all bred. Have 16 in the group that were planned to get bred. They look good.</p><p></p><p>We normally have a spring season Mar-May and a fall season Sep-Nov.</p><p></p><p>Bought some bred cows so they could come anytime...luckily it hasn't been too bad here, most nights in the mid 20's and days up in the 40's & 50's. Was glad there weren't any in that cold rain a couple of weeks ago.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1395327, member: 25884"] I'm with you on that Sky; hate the cold weather calving. Glad you got him up and going.We shoot for last week feb at the earliest. And I do it "backwards" from so many, I hold my heifers and calve them in April/May after most of the cows are done. I want warmer weather, so that they are not dealing with the cold when they are trying to get it all figured out. It has worked good for us. I don't normally calve heifers in the fall, but had a group of 9 last year all within 30 days except 1 and they were done by Oct 1st. Calves have done pretty good. Will have some fall ones again next fall, but will have about 25-30 this spring. Got to get them preg checked next week, we have had them on grass and finally time to move them home. 9 went to visit the neighbors bull from the pasture where a tree took out the fence in back, so will be a little smaller than I like, won't hurt my feelings if they aren't all bred. Have 16 in the group that were planned to get bred. They look good. We normally have a spring season Mar-May and a fall season Sep-Nov. Bought some bred cows so they could come anytime...luckily it hasn't been too bad here, most nights in the mid 20's and days up in the 40's & 50's. Was glad there weren't any in that cold rain a couple of weeks ago. [/QUOTE]
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