When's calving starting 2023

Shorthorn by YKK - Ballyart Lucky.

Ive 40% calved. Use easy calving AI bulls. All coming rather big for me this year. Have had to help cows calf Loyal which shouldn’t be the case. Perhaps my cows have had too good a winter feed. Another bunch of Loyals to come in the next 2 weeks so interesting to see how they come out.

Ya, cow calved here on Saturday to Loyal. Surprised at how big he was. Mild winter and good silage - not good for calving.

Same here. All but 2 calved in a month long window. Only 3 calves in the shed. Jacked one big calf out in the field and one in the shed that came backwards. dint lay a hand On the rest.

Was dreading this season because we had a new baby at the end of January and the calving being so compact but actually turned out to be a dream

Not really. Very heavy ground for Meath ground but the weather was exceptional and the calves came before the weather turned.

I've my few that's calved (8 now) in a sacrificial paddock. I'd have heavy land. I'm giving hay out to them to keep them tipping over. Pure balls weather at the moment.

As said above too, seems to be easy calving this year too with nearly all calve 40-50kg range.

Left them out. Benefit of good high hedges. Beef cattle are still in the shed

We haven't let the cows with young calves out yet due to the incessant heavy rain that we've got in the last week or so. The shed they are in we set up for cow&calves and they would normally have direct access to two fields depending on which way we swing the gates. The back pen behind the large timber frame is where the feed barrier and water trough are located. We find it works well and helps to keep the bedding dry. There are nine cows and ten calves (set of twins - blue roan heifer and red bull in the front of the picture) in it at the moment.

The first of the heifers calved yesterday morning (a BBx that I bought in and reared as a calf) we gave her a bit of help with the jack but it wasn't a hard pull. I was slightly worried because this year the calves from the stock bull are coming a lot bigger outta the same cows than last year.

It’s definitely possible alrite.

Yep. Had an AI zag to first timer last year at 277 or 278. Mind you she's done similar to my own limousine stock bull this year, Calved around 7 weeks earlier than she calved last year.

No a bull calf to Loyal actually which was nice. Calved herself. Loyal doesn’t seem to carry too long either I suppose. She had 2 SA heifers previously. I was getting hints of a Saler off him again. Reddish in colour. have another couple who were AI’d around the same time and nothing happening with them yet. Could be down to the cow too.