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Originally Posted by 93nav
Do you have a good place to calf? Dry, out of the wind, shelter for the calves? Just wondering. What are your current temps?
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After tomorrow we should be out of the weeds for cold weather. We had one born in January on a night that was -30C. It spent the rest of the week in my heated shop and was reunited with its momma and is doing fine. Unfortunately it now has short ears and a short tail. This was from a nurse cow that was bred before we got her. We had no idea as to when she was bred or what she was bred to...
We have a good calving shelter (unheated) and not much for dry ground given that the warm weather is turning the calving pen from snow covered to mud covered. The straw is the best bet.
Incidentally, the calf in the top pic was born when it was -15. It also spent the rest of the night in the shop to dry up a bit and was given its first shot of collostrum before being put back with its momma.
We have 3 more that are imminent and the rest of the Hurd should be in the next few weeks (hopefully).