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We calve in February or March because we'd rather thaw out popsicles than have them drown in the mud. Besides, we raise registered Limousins and sell breeding stock so in order to sell them as yearlings for other people's calving seasons, we have to get them on the ground earlier. You are right though- they always seem to wait for a poor weather day. Maybe it has to do with the barometric pressure dropping. That's one theory I heard anyway.....
Sounds like you have a good plan that works. One plan never seems to work well for two different people. Last year we lost a few calves born in Feb/March, the weather here has changed and we seem to get ice storms/blizzards in early March. We are hoping that by moving the date we will avoid that. There is still alot of deep snow on the ground here and alot of locals have already started calving. Luckily we havnt had to get up in the middle of the night the last few years and check the heifers.
Some young guys wanted to get in the cattle business last year and bought 150 bred heifers (bad idea) and ended up pulling over 50 in Feb. That is just too hard on heifers
We calve in February or March because we'd rather thaw out popsicles than have them drown in the mud. Besides, we raise registered Limousins and sell breeding stock so in order to sell them as yearlings for other people's calving seasons, we have to get them on the ground earlier. You are right though- they always seem to wait for a poor weather day. Maybe it has to do with the barometric pressure dropping. That's one theory I heard anyway.....
Sounds like you have a good plan that works. One plan never seems to work well for two different people. Last year we lost a few calves born in Feb/March, the weather here has changed and we seem to get ice storms/blizzards in early March. We are hoping that by moving the date we will avoid that. There is still alot of deep snow on the ground here and alot of locals have already started calving. Luckily we havnt had to get up in the middle of the night the last few years and check the heifers.
Some young guys wanted to get in the cattle business last year and bought 150 bred heifers (bad idea) and ended up pulling over 50 in Feb. That is just too hard on heifers