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WyomingRancher

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Since yesterday afternoon, it's snowed about 9-10 inches here. It's still coming down and the wind is starting to blow.

Opened up a path to feed hay in
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Calves this morning

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I can hear the grass growing under the snow!
 
Calving this time of year with this kind of storm is a friggin' nightmare. We're getting 25-30 calves a day now and there's so much slop if they don't calve in the barn they won't last long. I would guess we have well over an inch of moisture so far with the rain and then snow.

If I weaken this summer and think about turning the bulls out before August 1st somebody punch me in the nose, PLEASE!!
 
Big Swede said:
Calving this time of year with this kind of storm is a friggin' nightmare. We're getting 25-30 calves a day now and there's so much slop if they don't calve in the barn they won't last long. I would guess we have well over an inch of moisture so far with the rain and then snow.

If I weaken this summer and think about turning the bulls out before August 1st somebody punch me in the nose, PLEASE!!
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Maybe I could borrow your bulls until then. That is about when we pull ours out of the pastures. :wink: :-)
 
Big Swede said:
Calving this time of year with this kind of storm is a friggin' nightmare. We're getting 25-30 calves a day now and there's so much slop if they don't calve in the barn they won't last long. I would guess we have well over an inch of moisture so far with the rain and then snow.

If I weaken this summer and think about turning the bulls out before August 1st somebody punch me in the nose, PLEASE!!
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I understand your pain! I tried April calving, and couldn't switch back to March calving fast enough. It was the hardest calving ever! I was exhausted just by trying to move in the slop. Also, the cows were exhausted because they were very pregnant and couldn't find a dry place to lay down, let alone calve. I'd much rather calve on frozen ground than slop. Let's face it, there isn't a "perfect" time to calve, or else everybody would be doing it the same.

For this place, March has worked well. I understand why you'd like to switch to May calving though. With a forest allotment, it's good to have a full breeding cycle before going up, and honestly, I don't mind getting calving over with during the time of year I'm not busy doing other things.
 
As far as weather goes...it's days like this that our Fall Herd looks better and better calving in September...lol Oh well we're a tuff breed,,we'll cuss alot and then move on to the next adventure mother nature throws at us...lol
 
After seein' your weather i'll meekly tell ya'll were at 50 degrees and dry and headed for 70 by Sunday. :oops: Maybe our weather will migrate your direction? But please do not exchange yours for ours!!! :D Good luck and happy sledding!
 
Send me some of that. We got 5", but we need all the moisture we can get. I'm about out of hay. :(
 
We got nothing. Someone at the pub last night was bragging about gettng 8/100. That's big moisture for us this year. Two feet of good wet snow would be a nice start, maybe the waterholes would get some fresh water in them.
 
We got 3-4" of wet snow last Saturday, but it was gone by the next morning. Been pretty dry up here this winter. Hope it rains soon.
 
Olny got a dozen stagglers locked in a corral here. March has always been better then april. But then we lamb late april into May.
Going to run out of stock cow hay Sunday and if this 2 feet of hard snow don't rotten up a bit I'll have a cat over here to push a road to the neighbors stack.
Tied yesterday and got high centered twice, the first time I don't know how I got out the tractor bucket was not tuching anything to push or pull the tractor.
 

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