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<blockquote data-quote="fargus" data-source="post: 727207" data-attributes="member: 13480"><p>We are north of Jeanne, in the Ontario snowbelt. We calve in May, with the tail end in June. Mud isn't an issue even on our clay-loam right after snow melt. Well managed grass holds up well, and we will turn our cattle into a 10 acre "sacrifice" pasture from about the 20th of April until the grass is going and we can start strip-grazing. Newborns aren't that dumb, they follow mom to the next strip, and calving outside on grass is cleaner, easier, and cheaper. I don't have the time available to watch cows closely if we chose to calve in the winter. Ours are lucky if they get checked more than once a day during calving season.</p><p></p><p>We don't wean until the last week of October, but the cows are in good shape. Our stocking rate is actually a bit low, so we have lots of good grass all season. The calves don't get creep feed, they just figure out how to eat grass with momma. I'm an advocate of calving on grass. I don't care what month(s), but up here I wouldn't calve any other time of year, unless I was chasing the show circuit around.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fargus, post: 727207, member: 13480"] We are north of Jeanne, in the Ontario snowbelt. We calve in May, with the tail end in June. Mud isn't an issue even on our clay-loam right after snow melt. Well managed grass holds up well, and we will turn our cattle into a 10 acre "sacrifice" pasture from about the 20th of April until the grass is going and we can start strip-grazing. Newborns aren't that dumb, they follow mom to the next strip, and calving outside on grass is cleaner, easier, and cheaper. I don't have the time available to watch cows closely if we chose to calve in the winter. Ours are lucky if they get checked more than once a day during calving season. We don't wean until the last week of October, but the cows are in good shape. Our stocking rate is actually a bit low, so we have lots of good grass all season. The calves don't get creep feed, they just figure out how to eat grass with momma. I'm an advocate of calving on grass. I don't care what month(s), but up here I wouldn't calve any other time of year, unless I was chasing the show circuit around. [/QUOTE]
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