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As I was driving home tonight after a long school board meeting in a blizzard in the middle of February my thoughts drifted, no pun intended, to memories of calving in this kind of weather. Back when I was younger and tougher I would start calving heifers about this time of year. The memories that kept reoccuring to me were the stress and dread that the start of calving would bring since I knew that inevitably there would be weather like this to contend with either while calving or keeping the calves healthy during tough weather till green grass which is usually another 3 months.
I know there will be new challenges calving on grass, which I look forward to, but the stress and anxiety of fighting the weather are all but gone. We have all had this discussion before and what ever works for your operation and makes you happy is all that matters. I just never realized the load it would take off my mind, when I made the switch. Just not sure what took so long to realize there was another way to do things.