Calving Time Again

We’ve had such a good winter the last month or so. Off and on 50 degree days, snow disappearing, ice rotting out of the creeks, etc. Starting to drop calves (at least out of the heifers) last week and the weather starts changing again. Spent night before last watching a heifer who’d been showing signs of labor for quite a while, finally went and fished out a bull calf about 2:00 a.m. Plenty of room, just being a heifer she didn’t really give it a good try.
Windy and cooling off at daylight, blowing in a storm. Started snowing hard about noon. We gathered and sorted our heavy droppers. I try and do this once a week when I have the kids home to help horseback. I’m still trying to heal this darn pelvis, on top of that had a molar pulled on Friday, not feeling too froggy. That puts me back to 20 heifers in my front field and I put about half that in the barn at night.
Had about 6″ new snow by dark. Wind is picking up and the sky is clear as a bell. Not as cold as I thought. No new calves in barn during the night, got down to around 18 in the night with a good 20 mph wind with gusts over 40. Rode through the old cows (who are starting with some early calves) had 2 new ones up and sucking.
Now to harness up and go feed. Only about 250 more calves to go.