Two beautiful days and not......

[branguscowgirl]

Gotta breed for June calvings. :D

The flies would really like that here.

And half would have pneumonia, scours and who knows what in 3 days or less. At least in this neck of the woods, summer is not the time to be having calves born.

Yea you guys have a totally different environment than we do here. Spring and summer calves do well here. I wouldn't know how to raise cattle in some of those conditions that you have.

 

[Supa Dexta]

I don't know wtf is goin on in this thread.

But I've always understood predators aren't on the move as much during bad weather and assumed it to be a natural protection measure to calve at that time. So they have time to work, and then when the good weather returns they have some wheels under them.

 

[Deepsouth]

I don't know wtf is goin on in this thread.

But I've always understood predators aren't on the move as much during bad weather and assumed it to be a natural protection measure to calve at that time. So they have time to work, and then when the good weather returns they have some wheels under them.

No predator problem here. I just don't like calves being born in the mud, especially cold mud.

 

[Supa Dexta]

I don't mean on your farm, I mean in the general history of cattle evolution over the years, since the dawn of (cow) time. It may be bred into them to calve in poor weather, as an extra step of having only the strong survive, to both survive the weather and give them a bit of extra time to get their legs, when predators aren't out on the hunt. And then they also hide them in good weather, during the day and then stay with them at night when animals are out looking for food. We push them into calving in crap winter weather, but even the ones that calve in the summer, a lot tend to be in rain storms, or unsettled weather of some sort.

This is just my own thinking. I've never read it, or heard it elsewhere, but I have spent time thinking it over.

 

[M-5]

http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-new ... 97481.html

Study finds spring calving more likely if barometer on the rise

 

[Circle P Cattle]

I don't mean on your farm, I mean in the general history of cattle evolution over the years, since the dawn of (cow) time. It may be bred into them to calve in poor weather, as an extra step of having only the strong survive, to both survive the weather and give them a bit of extra time to get their legs, when predators aren't out on the hunt. And then they also hide them in good weather, during the day and then stay with them at night when animals are out looking for food. We push them into calving in crap winter weather, but even the ones that calve in the summer, a lot tend to be in rain storms, or unsettled weather of some sort.

This is just my own thinking. I've never read it, or heard it elsewhere, but I have spent time thinking it over.

I agree, I've had them born during thunderstorms, and bad winter weather, we get snow/ice once or twice a year and I seem to always get one or two born during the mess. Had one born a hour before an ice storm a couple weeks ago, sucked and cleaned off and made it fine. Seems they will get through a week of nice weather and nothing, but bring in a storm and boom new calf in an hour. I would think it has something to do with a natural defense mechanism.