When's calving starting 2022

I have springers calving these days, 11 on the ground so far, 4 left to go. All in-calf to Salers and haven't had to intervene at any stage from caving to sucking. Space for them all Calving is tight enough even though I made another 2 calving pens last year.

Cows not due to start calving until the end of Feb.

I won't be expecting anything until the end of the month. I'll be settling up calf pens and calving pens next week. Making up two new calving pens as the one last year worked but wasn't ideal

a lim bull calf for us. She’s out on her own was carrying twins and lost them so put her back in calf so all good. Be a couple of weeks now I think

We’d an issue last year due to good quality silage, vet recommended reducing silage that springers have enough to keep them going but have bare concrete for a few hours

Ye will all be finished by the time i start calving!

I'll see ye all in about 3 months time!

Great comfort at calving time with Gamin, he’s a super bull.

The calves are all flying it, torture to get them to latch onto the spins with the size of them but once they got going they haven’t looked back.

Any pics?

I've him on 4 of my best cows this year & looking forward to see what he brings. Hoping for heifers.

Every year around this time I be thinking about the stragglers in May - nice, mild weather and a massive long day to check them, calving outside on their own. There are drawbacks surely but I dunno how to make my mind up on it. We dont really sell weanlings so there’s little point in very early calving. It allows for keeping on heifers to calve at 27/28 months just

I had crypto twice, a pure torture. I use more bedding now, I’ve better calving facilities with being able to hold calves on straw beds longer before going back into slats with cows, keep the minerals right and a really tight eye on calves with the first sign of an issue getting it dealt with rather than saying he should be grand. I haven’t vaccinated yet, I intended to but didn’t get to do it yet, hopefully get it done on Saturday.

I had gone away from calving this time of year but I cleared out the autumn calvers and I’d too many late calvers so I’ve a bit of an amalgamation to do. February calving onwards would suit me better but I wouldn’t be able to handle them all in one really tight bunch. I’ve a three acre paddock set up with a good cover to get the early ones going out soon.

First calf of 2022 arrived here this evening. An Elite Lacette (LM5037) bull. Serious front shoulder to him. Reminds me of Ardlea Dan type calves. Probably the smallest cow I have but she calved no bother. My new calving shed worked grand. Even having the crush running along the wall allowed me to check calf with no worry of cow cornering me at back of shed.

I remember my vet saying that he hated Ardlea Dan because his calves often had very big shoulders. He hated TVR even more, section city with him.

Elite Lacette (LM5037) bull, where did you source these straws Patsy?

He’s a Eurogene bull, Foreman x Emerson, would you try him on heifers?

Thats a quare job! I wanna put in another crust up at the sheds and have more room to put machinery in, another calving pen would be a great addition like that.

haha just one more then I’ll quit I promise!

Ha! How many sheds/yards/walls ago?!

First one calved this evening. A Pure bred sim cow. She had a ch bull calf by Fiston. Calved herself and calf up within the hour. Great when its happens like that

Another brute there now. Ch bull off a roan . Another hair on him and I doubt I would have got him out.

The dairy side is up and running. FR2249 heifer calf to start from a second calver.

Another cow calved here today. She normally has a small calf, but this was a large bull. Good Silage and mild weather bringing them big so far.

A week to 10 days is our usual. They are on the slats then with access to straw creep area and cubicles.

Will the calf have somewhere to lie down off the slats?

4 to 5 days usually here. Put the cow back out on the slats with the calf having access to a pen with straw for lying on.