randiliana said:
3words said:
A lot of my cows go to rented pastures,so i'm not going to haul them to pasture and go well you are on your own cows,so good luck calving because don't think i have time to run to the different pastures everyday once i start field work.Some of us calve during the winter because thats the only time of year we can do it.I'm glad summer calving works for you,but it sure wouldn't work for me.
Exactly, this is the same situation we are in. Hard to calve out cows that are 1/2 to 2 hours away from home!
We had a neighbor in SE Montana that lived 40 miles away from where he calved his cows. He fed them daily and after that they were on their own.
You know, some years he didn't lose a calf and he never did lose
more than one or two. I guess he had all the problem cows culled
out, because it certainly did work well for him. They were on the same
creek as we were so we saw them every time we went by. We helped
him brand and move them for several years. Most problem I can
ever remember was some sunburned bags. They were black baldy
cows and some had white bags, but most of them that had problems
were sunburned plus windburned. That happened only one spring tho.
Suprising what happens when you get rid of the problems. Soon there
aren't any. Oh, he didn't calve any two-year old heifers there. He kept
them at home.