Okay, enough already!

[Alan]

Just moved my cows to the calving pasture last night, the only thing that makes it a calving pasture is I can see 90% of the pasture out my living room window (in my socks with a cup of coffee and a couple of ginger snap cookies ). So no more sharing nightmare calving experiences, pulling calving at 2 a.m. No more calves dieing, cows that wont get up etc. My first group is due March 14, so please until my calving season is over it's all warm coffee and cookies! :nod:

Thank you for your assistance, :lol2:
Alan

 

[Oldtimer]

We just seem to keep breaking records this year in our Winter from He!! :

CLIMATE...
1.0 INCHES OF NEW SNOW LAST NIGHT AND THIS MORNING HAS BROUGHT
THE RECORD-BREAKING SEASON SNOWFALL TOTAL TO 96.2 INCHES IN
GLASGOW. WHILE THIS HAS OVERSHADOWED THE COLD...THE 4-MONTH
PERIOD FROM NOVEMBER THROUGH FEBRUARY WAS THE COLDEST SINCE THE
1995-96 SEASON...THE 17TH COLDEST ON RECORD.

Snowing again today- and the temp is only 4- with the wind howling out of the east...And I've got several cows and heifers starting to look pretty calvy...

 

[TexasBred]

Just moved my cows to the calving pasture last night, the only thing that makes it a calving pasture is I can see 90% of the pasture out my living room window (in my socks with a cup of coffee and a couple of ginger snap cookies ). So no more sharing nightmare calving experiences, pulling calving at 2 a.m. No more calves dieing, cows that wont get up etc. My first group is due March 14, so please until my calving season is over it's all warm coffee and cookies! :nod:

Thank you for your assistance, :lol2:
Alan

Just don't turn on the fan. :???:

 

[novaman]

If it makes anybody feel better, we are running 30 degrees below average on our daytime highs and we are in the middle of calving.

 

[Alan]

If it makes anybody feel better, we are running 30 degrees below average on our daytime highs and we are in the middle of calving.

Hey, hey, coffee and Ginger snaps ...remember? While it's cold wet and muddy here, by the 14th it should be 70 dry and sunny. Calves should start coming at 8:30 am ..... Just after coffee.

And no TB, I won't turn on the fan, I don't want anything to hit it.

Alan

 

[TexasBred]

If it makes anybody feel better, we are running 30 degrees below average on our daytime highs and we are in the middle of calving.

Hey, hey, coffee and Ginger snaps ...remember? While it's cold wet and muddy here, by the 14th it should be 70 dry and sunny. Calves should start coming at 8:30 am ..... Just after coffee.

And no TB, I won't turn on the fan, I don't want anything to hit it.

Alan

Gotcha ;-) ;-)

 

[Dave]

70 degrees and sunny......... You realize that you are dreaming Alan. This March in the Pacific Northwest. It is in the 40's and raining most days.

 

[bigbull338]

hope you have an easy calving season.

 

[Alan]

70 degrees and sunny......... You realize that you are dreaming Alan. This March in the Pacific Northwest. It is in the 40's and raining most days.

Dave, it's a really nice dream, please don't try to wake me up!

Alan

 

[Alan]

hope you have an easy calving season.

Bigbull, to me it just seems like there has been lots of nightmare calving experiences shared this season, I really hope I didn't jinx myself. I would prefer, standing in a warm house in deep carpet, with a cup of great joe, and some cookies watching calves running around the pasture.

Dave don't wake me!!!

Alan

 

[bigbull338]

that why i dont say much about calving season,because i want a good safe 1.

 

[Dave]

Sweet dreams Alan. I wouldn't want to disturb your beauty sleep with reality. I am half way done with calving and it has been wonderful. Especially on days like this. A balmy 46 degrees, pouring down rain, and steady winds out of the SW at 25 MPH with gust to 40 MPH. I think I will go take a nap and dream of that 70 degrees and the sun shining.

 

[Alan]

Sweet dreams Alan. I wouldn't want to disturb your beauty sleep with reality. I am half way done with calving and it has been wonderful. Especially on days like this. A balmy 46 degrees, pouring down rain, and steady winds out of the SW at 25 MPH with gust to 40 MPH. I think I will go take a nap and dream of that 70 degrees and the sun shining.

You got my picture Dave, we're close enough you know I have the same weather, and the wind aways blows so the hay particles come back in my face. Not to mention the mud. I have one that was standing off by herself paying a lot of attention to her belly, but she came right up to feed, she's due in 5 days and looks it... we'll see. Glad to hear someones having a good season, I have one in standing heat this morning she's due 4/14 .... oops. She spent four months with the clean up bull last spring, she's on the cull list but I'll breed her again and preg checks she's another well bred easy doing cow.

Okay back to 70 degrees, plush carpet, coffee and ginger snaps looking out my window in the warm sun warming me up.

Alan

 

[vclavin]

Hope you have a good spring calving season. We have 2 live and 1 dead in the mud... 17 more to go and mud getting deeper.
Valerie

 

[Alan]

Nothing really to say, I just didn't want my hope of a good easy, lucky calving season post to end on the lucky number 13 replies.

Nuff said, it's now 14 , not that I think about that sort of thing.

Alan

 

[Dave]

So how are you liking the weather now Alan? We have reached and past your March 14th start date. It has warmed up a few degrees but can it rain any harder than it has the last week or so? My cows are staying in the barn on their own to calf. None are going down back under the trees to calf. In fact none venturing outside for anything if they don't have to.

 

[Nesikep]

Alan, Don't cull that cow quite yet.. I've had one in standing heat a month before she laid down a calf.. 3 times in a row.. Now unless she's got the gestation time of a rabbit...

Good luck!

 

[Kingfisher]

I hear if you eat too many ginger snaps.........

 

[Alan]

So how are you liking the weather now Alan? We have reached and past your March 14th start date. It has warmed up a few degrees but can it rain any harder than it has the last week or so? My cows are staying in the barn on their own to calf. None are going down back under the trees to calf. In fact none venturing outside for anything if they don't have to.

Well, we finally got things rolling yesterday, first calf, a bull calf. He's a Rib Eye son out of one of my better cows. Got him tagged, and shots then I carried him up to the house to show him his future home ......the freezer.

It wasn't 70 degrees, in fact it was in the low 40's, windy, hard rain and muddy. He was 4 days late, but came with no trouble and up and nursing in a short time. But at least the season has started.

Alan