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A calving checklist

Get ready ahead of time

By Heather Smith Thomas January 15, 2015

Before calving, you want everything on hand that might be needed, and all facilities and equipment functional and ready for use. Don’t wait till the last minute to get machinery out of the calving barn or maternity pen if that’s where you parked it, or to try to find the new box of OB gloves […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Vet advice

Brood cow nutrition part of fall planning

By Dr. Ron Clarke November 12, 2014

The best indicator we have for assessing the nutritional status of beef cows is body condition and all measures of production are tied to this. Thin cows produce poorer-quality colostrum, have weaker calves, wean lighter calves and are less likely to breed back in the first 21 days of the breeding season producing more open […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Calving, Cow-Calf, Livestock

Calf Planting

Cows are on high alert after calving, so this planting behavior impacts how and when groups of cattle can be moved or at least easily moved.

By Kris Ringwall June 20, 2014

NDSU Extension Service – As the Dickinson Research Extension Center winds up May calving, the year has been good. May calving involves pastures, grass and space. Because feed is not delivered in a bunk, the cow decides where she wants to be in the pasture and sets in motion a series of thoughts that anchor […] Read more

Features

iCalve

A new app for your iPhone

By Peg Strankman January 24, 2014

So what does a guy with a ranch, a young family, multiple commitments to his community and industry organizations, do in his spare time? Well, he creates an app to take care of his calving records of course. Jake Meyer, with his family, operates a ranch in southern Alberta near Welling and has the only calving […] Read more

Cow-Calf, Features

Why do we tolerate aggressive cows?

By Brooke Aitken January 24, 2011

Cattle producers are surprisingly tolerant of aggressive mother cows at calving time and tend to leave them in the herd. They are much more likely to cull a cow that has mis-mothered or abandoned her calf. These were some of the key findings of a voluntary survey of 168 cattle producers who collectively own over […] Read more

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