"My mind kept going back to my sick calf and heifer in labor. I probably should have stayed home."
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GREAT FALLS, Mont. – Calving season is in full swing at the Liebert ranch, with ranchers Richard and Lynda Liebert working as a team in wet an…
GREAT FALLS, Mont. – Calving season is in full swing at the Liebert ranch, with ranchers Richard and Lynda Liebert working as a team in wet an…
I had my first calving nightmare. It must mean that calving season is coming up around the corner. Granted from a calendar perspective it shou…
MCHENRY, N.D. – After another cold snap in late February, Logan and Chelsey Harding were busy finding some relief from calving their Red Angus…
"I always return from this event feeling recharged, not so isolated, understood, encouraged and inspired! We laugh, we love, we cry and we learn."
Last year, my favorite heifer decided to have her calf by a ditch, rolled over and died. Other heifers I have anointed as "the one" have had other misfortunes.
With calving season starting in January for many, we have a lot of calves on the ground! Calves that were born in January or even the start of…
STARBUCK, Minn. – As unusual as it seems, baby calves are born deficient in vitamin A – an important vitamin for good health.
“Prevention and early detection are two keys in reducing the spread of disease in newborn calves.”
Ideally, labor goes off without a hitch, and you have a healthy calf, foal, kid or lamb on the ground within about an hour of the labor proces…
"I was starting to get concerned. I had just talked to a neighbor about how bad the coyotes were and how they could run a new calf off."
Over the course of three days, they photographed and videoed close to 50 head. “All those needed to be clipped, so it was very, very busy,” he said.
There are few moments more special on the farm than welcoming in a newborn to your herd.
Nobody likes pulling calves, not to mention the loss in calf and cow performance or possible death due to dystocia. Selecting the right geneti…
It seems as though we shifted mighty quickly to trekking through snow and now through deep mud.
MCHENRY, N.D. – With calving season just around the corner, Logan and Chelsey Harding are hoping for a break from the bitter cold temperatures…
Creating their own 40-page catalog as a value-added gift to their 600 customers on their mailing list involves hundreds of work hours and thousands of dollars.
ASKOV, Minn. – Everything happened during the last two weeks of January.
Right this very minute down on the farm we are starting to get ready for calving season.
MCHENRY, N.D. – The winter weather was unseasonably mild through the first half of January in the east central region of the state, but since …
WORTHINGTON, Minn. – Calving moved into full swing in January at Five Pine Cattle Co. There were about 15 cute and rambunctious calves running…
Producers should keep a record regarding udder quality at calving that can be referred to later when culling decisions are being made.
I think one of the first things I need to know when I come to your place for a dystocia is who is the priority: mom or baby?
ASKOV, Minn. – The weather isn’t giving any time off this year to east central Minnesota farmers like those at Beckers Angus.
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