WyomingRancher
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This first pic pretty well sums up my luck this calving season :?. When I went to feed this morning, this poor girl followed me around, bawling and bawling. Her tight bag was a bad sign, but I certainly wasn't expecting to find this.
Here was a special project early in the season. This was an enormous backwards calf, who couldn't stand for the first few days. He outweighed me, so I'd just drag him underneath the cow to let him nurse :roll: . The cow and I were both unimpressed with this "project", but luckily he straightened up and looks good now.
Had a little trouble with predators too
.
I declared war and won... final score coyotes=3, WR=5 :wink: .
Oh, it also snowed a little during all of this fun.
Thank goodness for Pete. Help couldn't get here, and he was my one and only helper.
Okay, now for some better pics... it couldn't all be bad, right?
These haven't gotten killed by boulders or coyotes...yet.
Some of the yearlings.
New Balancer bulls.
New bulls vowing to not allow this to happen on their watch
.
Yes, this was as ridiculous as it looks
. The old male dog wouldn't ride on back with Pete, so we improvised.
Some of the pairs this evening.
Yearling heifer.
Here was a special project early in the season. This was an enormous backwards calf, who couldn't stand for the first few days. He outweighed me, so I'd just drag him underneath the cow to let him nurse :roll: . The cow and I were both unimpressed with this "project", but luckily he straightened up and looks good now.
Had a little trouble with predators too
.
I declared war and won... final score coyotes=3, WR=5 :wink: .
Oh, it also snowed a little during all of this fun.
Thank goodness for Pete. Help couldn't get here, and he was my one and only helper.
Okay, now for some better pics... it couldn't all be bad, right?
These haven't gotten killed by boulders or coyotes...yet.
Some of the yearlings.
New Balancer bulls.
New bulls vowing to not allow this to happen on their watch
.
Yes, this was as ridiculous as it looks
. The old male dog wouldn't ride on back with Pete, so we improvised.
Some of the pairs this evening.
Yearling heifer.
) look great and healthy. Good looking bulls too, got the giggles with your "boys" checking out the cute red calf! We technically start calving in a few days---we already have 2 dead cows, one got on her back and one we think got some poison somewhere in the meadow, had one heifer's calf in the hot box that shouldn't have lived but is doing fine now, had the snow melt fast the other day and had half of our first calf heifer herd make a break for "greener pastures"; they got in the plowed snow catchers and left in a fast pregnant trot, and so on and so forth. Calving definetly makes us want to cry at times, and makes you want to give someone a high five! Had a big ole' girl have a calf backwards yesterday evening and she slid right out just as fine as if it were born the right way and our snow is melting a month earlier than last year and our nights have been pretty warm lately. You gotta love calving! Again, beautiful pictures, i might never look at a rock again the same way 
Great scenery and good looking cattle though. 8)
:shock: They sure find ways to get in a bind. I hope those coyotes that are buggin' ya get what they need.....about 80 grains of lead administered intermuscularly. 