New calves - pics

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Calving season is such a special time of year, especially calving in this unusually warm weather on unusually green grass (for Wisconsin) and falling during Easter week.

Calves have been coming daily in the calving pasture and so far so good. I snapped a few pictures of the new calves. The weather is ideal for cow and calf this year.

Unfortunately the flies are also coming on early this year. I put up and doused one old rub in front of the main Petersen waterer today.

I have to say my U070 bull didn't waste any time when turned in last June. He did a good job. He has also certainly earned his good calving ease epd. And nice calves.

Looks to be a pretty tight calving season.

Jim

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Jim, in that first pic the calf on the left must be lying down in the shade of the cow. Looks almost black! :D ;-)

It has been beautiful weather here for calving. Came home from church about 10 Sunday morning and had a cow in the works. Went back out around 1 and the calf had been up and sucked and was following mama headed out with him.

Some places hit 90 degrees that day which is a little much for this early.
 
Jim, if you will get some generic Ivomec and put a little on the new calf's sholders, it'll keep the flies off. I just usually put some in a syringe to apply. We have already got flies here too. gs
 
plumber_greg":1k6wcngz said:
Jim, if you will get some generic Ivomec and put a little on the new calf's sholders, it'll keep the flies off. I just usually put some in a syringe to apply. We have already got flies here too. gs
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That's an interesting idea, Greg. The rubs don't help much with new calves that don't go to the waterer. Thank you.

Jim
 
John SD":a0ou5crx said:
Jim, in that first pic the calf on the left must be lying down in the shade of the cow. Looks almost black!
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John, That calf had just been born and was still all wet and in the shadow...Mama got him all cleaned up and he changed color. As you can probably tell, I like these red and white ones ;)

Thanks for the kind words everyone.

Jim
 
Thank you for the kind words all.

I just reached agreement to start bringing my 13 month old steers in for processing next week - earlier than originally scheduled.

They have finished the grain in the grazing corn I had for them and are just on hay now.

Cows are having new calves regularly now and don't seem to want to have much to do with hay anymore. I have to get the steers gone so can let the cows in to clean up the stalks and get on what grass I have available. The steers are in the way of getting cows more grass.

I always feel relieved to ship last years steers and get back to one crop. Only a couple weeks overlap with two years of calves around but it seems like things are moving faster this year.

Jim
 
Thanks for the suggestion Jeanne and BB. I can tell the percent of corn in their manure has dropped off and have been giving them grain supplement in the corral for the past few days.

This also reminds them that there are good things in the corral and will make getting them in at weigh-in and load out next week easier working by myself. I also back the trailer up to the loading chute a day or two in advance so they get used to it being there. I like nice low stress loading and quick slaughter at the processor.

You are right in that they can lose that corn finish pretty quickly when the corn runs out. I really over ran my corn grain while I was on the road last year and they poked around stalks and husks with some hay for a couple weeks. I think their gain really stalled out. Beef was still excellent from these 13 month old steers but hate to go to all this work and not finish on the upswing as far as gain goes. I'll try to get a couple pictures of this year's steers to show condition before they go. They look good to me. My knowledgeable neighbor mentioned he thinks they're ready also. I don't want to lose that.

Thanks again.

Jim
 
John SD":2akt453u said:
Jim, in that first pic the calf on the left must be lying down in the shade of the cow. Looks almost black! :D ;-)

It has been beautiful weather here for calving. Came home from church about 10 Sunday morning and had a cow in the works. Went back out around 1 and the calf had been up and sucked and was following mama headed out with him.

Some places hit 90 degrees that day which is a little much for this early.
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That is totally crazy weather for S.D. for this time of year!! :)
 

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