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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1496938" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Boy, I can sympathize with the March calving.... We always would try to get them in mid to late March because the weather seemed to be getting a little nicer, sunnier days and more warmth in the sun. The last 2 years our March calvings have been like yours, cold , miserable and this year all this late snow with mud and sloppy conditions. Nor do we have places to bring then in because they are on pasture. Told my son the other day that maybe we ought to just go to later calvings and the he// with dealing with this weather and just calve them all over a 4 month period and be done by Oct and that's it. But then getting uniform groups is harder. And with the numbers and rented places, there is no way we can have "inside facilities" to calve them. Feb would have been a better month with the days in the 60's but who knew? And we had some in Jan that did okay, it was soo cold that there was no mud in sight. No snow either though... I don't know anymore. </p><p></p><p>Good luck cuz I know we are in the same boat. Got 3 out of the muddy mess and put onto some rolled out round bales yesterday and scraped some mud off their legs and all with wads of hay. They seemed to stop shivering once they weren't so wet and curled up on the hay. </p><p></p><p>And another possible storm Sat eve and into Sunday. Coming from the upper midwest not a real wide band but could bring a trace to a foot according to where it hits. Southeast Va in the Floyd County area, and into Martinsville are supposed to get the most.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1496938, member: 25884"] Boy, I can sympathize with the March calving.... We always would try to get them in mid to late March because the weather seemed to be getting a little nicer, sunnier days and more warmth in the sun. The last 2 years our March calvings have been like yours, cold , miserable and this year all this late snow with mud and sloppy conditions. Nor do we have places to bring then in because they are on pasture. Told my son the other day that maybe we ought to just go to later calvings and the he// with dealing with this weather and just calve them all over a 4 month period and be done by Oct and that's it. But then getting uniform groups is harder. And with the numbers and rented places, there is no way we can have "inside facilities" to calve them. Feb would have been a better month with the days in the 60's but who knew? And we had some in Jan that did okay, it was soo cold that there was no mud in sight. No snow either though... I don't know anymore. Good luck cuz I know we are in the same boat. Got 3 out of the muddy mess and put onto some rolled out round bales yesterday and scraped some mud off their legs and all with wads of hay. They seemed to stop shivering once they weren't so wet and curled up on the hay. And another possible storm Sat eve and into Sunday. Coming from the upper midwest not a real wide band but could bring a trace to a foot according to where it hits. Southeast Va in the Floyd County area, and into Martinsville are supposed to get the most. [/QUOTE]
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