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Babies Don't Let Your Grammas Grow Up To Be Winter Calvers

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Winter Calving ain't easy unless you are bold
They like to sell calves in November that are ten months old
Calving chain handles and old faded Carhardt's
And each day begins a new night
You don't understand them and might cause a fight
Cause they'll never calve a cow in May

Babies don't let your Grammas grow up to be Winter calvers
Don't let them pull calves and lay in the muck
Let them bake cookies and other great stuff
Babies don't let your Grammas grow up to be Night Calvers
Cause they never at home-they get mad to the bone
Even with someone they love

Winter Calvers like February thaws and clear winter mornings
Little warm calvies, heeler puppies and no calves coming at night
Them that don't do it-won't understand them and them that do
Probably did it years ago
They ain't wrong they're just different but their pride won't let them
Sell light calves in the fall that the cows had in May

Babies don't let your Grammas grow up to be winter calvers
Don't let them pull calf sleds to make those big bucks
Let them spoil their grandbabies and all that good stuff
Babies don't let your Grammas grow up to be winter calvers
Cause they're never at home-they get mad to the bone
Even with somebody they love

If the wrong ladies see this I'm a dead man. Everyone to their own but I feel free to tease because we did it here for years. There's nothing more irritating in life I realize than somebody whose quit smoking, drinking or calving in the cold.
 
Northern Rancher said:
Winter Calving ain't easy or fun unless you are bold
They like to sell calves in October that are ten months old
Calving chain handles and old faded Carhardt's
And each day begins a new night
You don't understand them and might cause a fight
Cause they'll never calve a cow in May

Babies don't let your Grammas grow up to be Winter calvers
Don't let them pull calves and lay in the muck
Let them bake cookies and other great stuff
Babies don't let your Grammas grow up to be Night Calvers
Cause they never at home-they get mad to the bone
Even with someone they love

Winter Calvers like February thaws and clear winter mornings
Little warm calvies, heeler puppies and no calves coming at night
Them that don't do it-won't understand them and them that do
Probably did it years ago
They ain't wrong they're just different but their pride won't let them
Sell light calves in the fall that the cows had in May

Babies don't let your Grammas grow up to be winter calvers
Don't let them pull calf sleds to make those big bucks
Let them spoil their grandbabies and all that good stuff
Babies don't let your Grammas grow up to be winter calvers
Cause they're never at home-they get mad to the bone
Even with somebody they love

If the wrong ladies see this I'm a dead man. Everyone to their own
but I feel free to tease because we did it here for years. There's
nothing more irritating in life I realize than somebody who's quit
smoking, drinking or calving in the cold.
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That was pretty good, Northern Rancher. So far it is early enough
in the season that Peach and I can still laugh. :-) As of yet there are
no grandkids to pamper, so that is not a factor. Best of all, it looks
like all next week the temperatures will be up in the 40's and 50's.
No offense taken. :wink:
 
I'm sure you can come up with a ditty about the lunacy of calving with the mosquitoes too. I calve in the cold myself but I have been known to wander over to a neighbors to get a calving fix. It's cold but clear here and the outfots that are calving are clipping along with no troubles yet. Soapweed there's nothing prettier than watching a baldy calf get up and suck around Valentine's Day-hint hint lol.
 
Excellent NR, and not far from my state of mind now, calving in the evening, work the job during the day. Tough business at -29 this am. However it will be a distant memory when I am done the 20 March and ready to do other projects. I am sure every black bear and wolf has an appreciation supper in honour of those to time calving with den emergence. :twisted: :twisted:
 
I keep the yotes filled up with gophers and cleanings-timber wolves live on Beavers mostly when the pups are small at least up here they do-a bunch camped on a friends cows early summer and caused some grief. The pic is what the bears like to eat at calving time. My biggest problem is Ravens of all things.

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BattleRiver we need to have a Western Breeders reunion-that would be fun-we might have to stop for a couple hours to sleep through the weekend not like the old days lol.
 
NR that is a plan, would not be unlike the old days as I spent many nights curled up in the Bob James room sleeping off a gutfull of rum, then walking 20 feet to the office to provide excellent customer service!.

I have to admit that May calving is looking good, but it does npot work for everyone, my busy time at work is may/June. And grass around here is split up in little chunks.

I guess I am a contrarian, as I actually moved my calving date 3 weeks earlier this year.

Interesting you dont have a big issue with the predators, as I have a good friewnd at leoville that lost 21 calves a few years ago to bears
 
Well knock on wood on the predator deal-I raised a pretty good hand at thinning bears. I just got off the phone with a good customer-a big busy outfit-farms ALOT of ground-they used to calve preseeding and had to pair up and haul several hundred pairs. He switched to midMay calves out after turnout-is down to one cowboy and his weaning % hasn't changed. With purebreds though the record keeping aspect would get a bit tough-cows can do a very good job of being cows.
 
Northern Rancher said:
... If the wrong ladies see this I'm a dead man. Everyone to their own but I feel free to tease because we did it here for years. There's nothing more irritating in life I realize than somebody whose quit smoking, drinking or calving in the cold.
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Well I must be one of the least irritating people you know :P Thanks for the compliment NR :D :D :D
 
Easiest way i have seen to keep the coyotes away from the new calves,knock down some deer.It also keeps the deer out of the hay bales that way,or so i have been told, :lol: .
 

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