How is your calving going?

[per]

"Other than the odd frosted dummy things are going better than average."

Are those burocratas from Victoria giving you more trouble?

[gcreekrch]

I thought those were toasted........

[ALLFARMER]

Gcreek sounds like were in the same boat, but
were not getting as cold as you. Temperature -13
here tonight and that's colder than usual. 5 more
calves here today. Had to get my new Miller
welder out of hibernation and weld up my piece
of junk hi-qual maternity pen. Had to get the
wife to pick up some new cable for the head
catch, Peavey Mart is now the dealer for hi-qual,
gave them the length and they sent me one 4" to
long and the bolt ends crimped on don't fit into
the mounting brackets. Anyway welded the cheap
exhaust pipe up and reenforced it with some
heavier steel and had another calf while doing
that. Bought that thing after seeing a sale add at
Ufa guess I got what I paid for! If I see a
Morand maternity pen at a sale up here she's
gunna be mine. You really gotta watch the Ufa
gates and panels and bale feeders. Quality has
really dropped in the last 8 or 10 years. I think
they are selling lots of hobby farmer junk. Cheers
y'all

[gcreekrch]

10 days past due date and we are now 56% done on the cows that were here 2 days ago. Took delivery of another load of heifers yesterday so we are again 6 short of 50%.

These cows have never calved this fast, I guess the wolves and grizzlies kept them bunched last summer.