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Howdy1

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......the good lord desinged it so when a blizzard hits that is when everything wants to calve. Seem like it would have been better to make it so a warm, high weather front kicked them into action! Oh well maybe a smarter person would pick a time to calve when it wasn't freezing and snowing. Just thankful for nice barns and deep straw.

Funny what I guy thinks of when he is killing time at 1:00 in the morning, during a winter storm, and waiting on a heifer to calve.

Well better go brave the elements and go check on the mother to be

L8R,
Howdy
 
Howdy1 said:
......the good lord desinged it so when a blizzard hits that is when everything wants to calve. Seem like it would have been better to make it so a warm, high weather front kicked them into action! Oh well maybe a smarter person would pick a time to calve when it wasn't freezing and snowing. Just thankful for nice barns and deep straw.

Funny what I guy thinks of when he is killing time at 1:00 in the morning, during a winter storm, and waiting on a heifer to calve.

Well better go brave the elements and go check on the mother to be

L8R,
Howdy
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If misery loves company, I am your company. :wink: :-)
 
There is snow in the air, though not much accumulation as of yet. The thermometer reads 13.6 degrees, with an 8.7 mph breeze, dropping the windchill to 3 degrees. Conditions will probably get worse before it gets better, if the weather prognosticators know what they are talking about. :?
 
Mike was up til 2:30, had two cows/calves in the barn. I just hauled in one of the new black ones...another one just calved and I won't be surprised if it doesn't come in too. Probably 15 or so and blowing like crazy, glad we only got about 3 of snow last night.
 
Soapweed said:
Howdy1 said:
......the good lord desinged it so when a blizzard hits that is when everything wants to calve. Seem like it would have been better to make it so a warm, high weather front kicked them into action! Oh well maybe a smarter person would pick a time to calve when it wasn't freezing and snowing. Just thankful for nice barns and deep straw.

Funny what I guy thinks of when he is killing time at 1:00 in the morning, during a winter storm, and waiting on a heifer to calve.

Well better go brave the elements and go check on the mother to be

L8R,
Howdy
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If misery loves company, I am your company. :wink: :-)
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Count me in the party :? . Actually, last night was good, only an inch of snow, and no wind. Later in the week may be a different story though. Out of the first 22, only 5 are bull calves.
 
Howdy1 said:
......the good lord desinged it so when a blizzard hits that is when everything wants to calve. Seem like it would have been better to make it so a warm, high weather front kicked them into action! Oh well maybe a smarter person would pick a time to calve when it wasn't freezing and snowing. Just thankful for nice barns and deep straw.

Funny what I guy thinks of when he is killing time at 1:00 in the morning, during a winter storm, and waiting on a heifer to calve.

Well better go brave the elements and go check on the mother to be

L8R,
Howdy
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where abouts are you located, Howdy? not sure what we got, maybe 6-8 inches and still snowing.
 
We've got no snow and no calves yet. The snow later today the calves two weeks. It's cold out though.
 
Fighting scours in a calf out here. The rest of my calves are doing great so far, but this one has been a challenge. Hope you make out alright with the weather.
 
Justin-

I am south of Prairie City. Just got in from chores and doing all our barn work. We have A LOT OF SNOW!!!!!!! My guess is over a foot and getting close to 16". Way more than we were supposed to get according to the "experts." Lucky we don't have any stronger winds or we would really have a mess because it is so fluffy.

Where are you located at?

L8R
Howdy
 
WyomingRancher said:
Soapweed said:
Howdy1 said:
......the good lord desinged it so when a blizzard hits that is when everything wants to calve. Seem like it would have been better to make it so a warm, high weather front kicked them into action! Oh well maybe a smarter person would pick a time to calve when it wasn't freezing and snowing. Just thankful for nice barns and deep straw.

Funny what I guy thinks of when he is killing time at 1:00 in the morning, during a winter storm, and waiting on a heifer to calve.

Well better go brave the elements and go check on the mother to be

L8R,
Howdy
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If misery loves company, I am your company. :wink: :-)
Click to expand...

Count me in the party :? . Actually, last night was good, only an inch of snow, and no wind. Later in the week may be a different story though. Out of the first 22, only 5 are bull calves.
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another party person,sleet,and snow mostly and 28 cows in so far
 
Soapweed said:
Howdy1 said:
......the good lord desinged it so when a blizzard hits that is when everything wants to calve. Seem like it would have been better to make it so a warm, high weather front kicked them into action! Oh well maybe a smarter person would pick a time to calve when it wasn't freezing and snowing. Just thankful for nice barns and deep straw.

Funny what I guy thinks of when he is killing time at 1:00 in the morning, during a winter storm, and waiting on a heifer to calve.

Well better go brave the elements and go check on the mother to be

L8R,
Howdy
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If misery loves company, I am your company. :wink: :-)
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It's making me miserable just thinking about it! I hate to think how miserable I would be if we were actually calving now. -30 this morning.
 
Howdy1 said:
Justin-

I am south of Prairie City. Just got in from chores and doing all our barn work. We have A LOT OF SNOW!!!!!!! My guess is over a foot and getting close to 16". Way more than we were supposed to get according to the "experts." Lucky we don't have any stronger winds or we would really have a mess because it is so fluffy.

Where are you located at?

L8R
Howdy
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i am about 20 miles NW of Buffalo.
 
me' thinks it's probably written somewhere in God's 'Handbook of Design' that 'if ya can't be smart, ya better be tuff'...and if the critters of the earth are gonna be tuff enuf to survive this world (and if we insist on breeding our cows during the summer months) then these are the exact weather conditions that 'weed out the weak ones' (and keep the gene-pool 'fresh') the fastest.

Kindof ironic how the city-folk don't last out here very long either...now that I think of it.
 
It's about time some of you said that you were calving to,i was starting to feel all alone :roll: .I got 68 calves on the ground so far.Minus 36 celcius here this morning,with the windchill minus 45,good thing for good barns.
 
3words said:
It's about time some of you said that you were calving to,i was starting to feel all alone :roll: .I got 68 calves on the ground so far.Minus 36 celcius here this morning,with the windchill minus 45,good thing for good barns.
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Barns are calf savers for sure. Hopefully spring will come along someday and save us all! :D
 
Our calves are still in their individual, nature provided barns for another 6 weeks. :D

We did have a bull escape overnight last spring. Looks like two or three may be early. :roll:
 
We aren't supposed to be calving till mid-April here 2 hours east of Rapid City. We have neither a calving barn nor sheds, so doesn't make sense for us to calve real early, and generally wish it could be after first week of May, the latest we have had a calf killing blizzard.

We have had over a foot of snow, most coming between 1:30
AM and about 11AM, with a little more off and on all day and maybe yet. Haven't looked for a while. Went from about 7% to possibly 15%, not sure what the 'high' was for the day.

Predicted to be -1% overnight, with little snow tomorrow, and improving a bit each day till Thursday when it may snow again.

Being a cowboy isn't much fun right now, especially for backgrounding calves in a lot. Surely not as bad as calving, but definitely no fun. Pretty tough getting hay to the cows in this deep snow, too. And they were just getting back to having it easier grazing after our New Years' foot of snow finally went off last week!

We keep telling ourselves it should help grow some good grass.....if the wind doesn't blow too much later in spring, and if the heat doesn't go too high too early.

My sympathies to those of you doing the early calving. I know you must be focused on the reward of huge calves next fall and hope the prices are great for you then.

mrj
 

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