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Tagging and The Book of Cows
191 just went into the book with 102 and 59. The book of cows that are not nice when they have a baby. The book of cows that may hurt you if you give them the chance. Most of our cows will not “take” you. You can walk through them anytime and they really don’t care. However, if they have a calf, especially a new born, it’s a whole nother ballgame. The game? Trying to guess how momma cow is going to react when it’s time to tag her newborn calf. Through the years, we’ve got pretty creative to get the calf tagged if the momma was snotty. A lot…
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Remembering the Night I Saved a Cow and her Calf
There is a point, as it is melting in the fields, that the snow becomes soft enough that the cows can walk through but we can not drive our ATVs through it. Cows have a tendency to walk as far away as possible to calve. When you put the two together, it can turn into trouble. When this happened last week, we drove the tractor out and rescued the cow and her calf. As we were doing this, I was reminded of a story from 2 years ago. I shared the story then on my old blog site. I figured I might as well share it again on this blog…
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Speeding up the Melting Process…my Farmer’s Way
If you are a follower of Livin’ the Life, the Farm Life that is on Instagram or Facebook , (if you are not, you need to be!! Click on the buttons and follow me!) you have seen me post a few pictures of us moving to a new feeding area with the cows. We have learned that when it becomes time to start calving, it is very important for us to move the cows to an area different from where they had been fed all winter. Some years this is not a big deal. We just drive to a different spot in the field. However, on big snow years, moving…
