Post by lakeportfarms on Apr 20, 2016 14:01:07 GMT
Another two calves yesterday. Both heifers. Our weather has been absolutely beautiful for the past week or more. Sunshine and warm temperatures, other than yesterday, when we briefly had some snow flurries in the morning and a stiff wind off the lake. But the skies cleared for the afternoon and it made it to the mid 40's. The high the day before was 70! But the sunshine has been notable for us compared to most years.
I was thinking a month ago we were going to have some days when we'd have a half dozen calves in a day in some instances...it doesn't look like that's going to happen, but I've seen two born simultaneously. We're on a pretty serious heifer streak here this year though, which is good, because we are making good progress on our "waiting list" of current and upcoming customers looking for heifers. I just wish that they could go to their new homes a little sooner, but I'll enjoy all the little calves blazing around the pastures as they find their running legs
Although we have the cows in sacrifice areas, I've set up temporary hi-tensile wires at the gate locations at a creep height that the calves can hang out in the pastures. It also pretty much eliminates the possibility that they get through the hi-tensile fence, and can't find their way back to their mom, requiring my intervention to open a gate and try to move them back. I've left the fences off most of the winter, and now that the grass is starting to green up, I've had to check them out and make sure they're hot.
I was thinking a month ago we were going to have some days when we'd have a half dozen calves in a day in some instances...it doesn't look like that's going to happen, but I've seen two born simultaneously. We're on a pretty serious heifer streak here this year though, which is good, because we are making good progress on our "waiting list" of current and upcoming customers looking for heifers. I just wish that they could go to their new homes a little sooner, but I'll enjoy all the little calves blazing around the pastures as they find their running legs
Although we have the cows in sacrifice areas, I've set up temporary hi-tensile wires at the gate locations at a creep height that the calves can hang out in the pastures. It also pretty much eliminates the possibility that they get through the hi-tensile fence, and can't find their way back to their mom, requiring my intervention to open a gate and try to move them back. I've left the fences off most of the winter, and now that the grass is starting to green up, I've had to check them out and make sure they're hot.