2/B or not 2/B
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I've been meaning to ask this for a long time, but it slipped my mind.
I got a calf sling for Christmas, in preparation for this year's calving season, which has come and gone.
How do you keep those suckers on? Is the calf just supposed to stand there and cooperate? When we would go to hoist up the calf, it would always slide forward or backward instead of being balanced in the sling. And once they start kicking and carrying on, forget it. Having mama circling us an inch away didn't help a lot either.
So, we weighed a couple on the bathroom scale, but that isn't always possible. In the end we gave up and went back to our old way - picking up the calf and comparing it to the 70 lb. dog! We'll try the sling again next year. I know people use them all the time, it just seemed like a circus every time we tried.
I got a calf sling for Christmas, in preparation for this year's calving season, which has come and gone.
How do you keep those suckers on? Is the calf just supposed to stand there and cooperate? When we would go to hoist up the calf, it would always slide forward or backward instead of being balanced in the sling. And once they start kicking and carrying on, forget it. Having mama circling us an inch away didn't help a lot either.
So, we weighed a couple on the bathroom scale, but that isn't always possible. In the end we gave up and went back to our old way - picking up the calf and comparing it to the 70 lb. dog! We'll try the sling again next year. I know people use them all the time, it just seemed like a circus every time we tried.