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<blockquote data-quote="GoWyo" data-source="post: 1792452" data-attributes="member: 38220"><p>We started calving the last few days of February. I had to move my A.I. dates up a week in June 2022 because of other schedule obligations. Heifers were first and I calved most of them through the barn, which is not my preference, but we were around 0* for a couple days and the wind was ugly. Cows started March 1 (set up for March 8-10) and they are pasture calving. Half the calves born so far have pulpy ears, so I have not been tagging those ones and half the others I can't catch. Kind of a mess as far as that goes, but my calving book at least has DOB and sex. Due to drought last summer, we did not have a very good forage stockpile (about 4 inches of grass versus 8-10 inches normally), so with the cold (about 10* below normal on average) and wind, the cows have to work pretty hard to get their calves up and going. Have had to warm up a couple chilled ones and dump some starter fluid (colostrum) in them, but they seem to be fine now. Looking forward to some 40s and 50s after Thursday.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoWyo, post: 1792452, member: 38220"] We started calving the last few days of February. I had to move my A.I. dates up a week in June 2022 because of other schedule obligations. Heifers were first and I calved most of them through the barn, which is not my preference, but we were around 0* for a couple days and the wind was ugly. Cows started March 1 (set up for March 8-10) and they are pasture calving. Half the calves born so far have pulpy ears, so I have not been tagging those ones and half the others I can't catch. Kind of a mess as far as that goes, but my calving book at least has DOB and sex. Due to drought last summer, we did not have a very good forage stockpile (about 4 inches of grass versus 8-10 inches normally), so with the cold (about 10* below normal on average) and wind, the cows have to work pretty hard to get their calves up and going. Have had to warm up a couple chilled ones and dump some starter fluid (colostrum) in them, but they seem to be fine now. Looking forward to some 40s and 50s after Thursday. [/QUOTE]
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