Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[woodland]

Woodland,


What was the most calves you guys had in a day this spring.

We had a couple days of 30-32 but usually averaged 20-25 which is just fine with me. Other years we’ve had days with over 40 which usually correspond with the crummiest weather possible just to keep things interesting. We aren’t equipped to deal with 10% of the cows calving in a day (which has happened before) currently but have a couple carpenter buddies booked for next month to put up another calving shed. It’s been long overdue and makes life so much better than our open air setup for the main bunch of cows that we have now.

On nice weather days two people did most of the feeding and dealing with calves which is what we used to do with 2/3 of the cows we currently run. The calf catcher we built frees up a person for good chunk of the day. A real game changer for sure. I actually kinda look forward to tagging instead of it being a chore.

Might even think about breeding more heifers in July................ don’t tell my wife about that though😉