Baby Boom Business Begins.....

[John SD]

Got the first calf of the season this morning! Nice Hereford heifer calf out of a 3 yr old Hereford cow.

I don't envy you folks who have been doing this all along. 75 and sunny here today and can almost watch the grass grow.

Now I gotta catch this lil gal while I still can and give her a tag and 7-way shot. Tag is drying on the pickup dash as I speak
... errr... type. :wink:

 

[Nicky]

Good luck to you! Hope it all goes smoothly You take your laptop to the pasture with you?

 

[gcreekrch]

Good Luck John. We are 77% done in the first cycle, not bad for being range bred in rough country.

 

[Soapweed]

It's kind of fun being almost done calving. Just joking. You late calvers won the poker game this season. :wink:

 

[John SD]

Well, I am a chicken. Was gonna give baby a tag and shot. Mama didn't think too much of the idea, and I wasn't going to argue with her. I'm just not as young as I used to be. :roll:

gcreekrch, I think you guys up nort might have have lucked out with better calving weather than here this year. :wink:

Soap, a guy still has gotta be glad to be almost done, whenever "almost done" is. You just worked a lot harder to earn it this year! :wink:

Nicky, I usually take my hand-top to the pasture. :roll: The ball point pen writes down the calves on the back of my hand in case I can't remember long enough to write the calves down in the calving book I left back at the house.

 

[MsSage]

LOL sometimes mama does know best :wink: Youll get her soon enough.

Sometimes I envy yall who have an end to the calving......shoer keeps reminding me its job security. But after 3 weeks of 6-10 babies a shift its getting old fast. PLus I dont have to worry about our mamas they are more overgrown puppy dogs than cows LOL