Calving 2025

Lovely. 'Stone walls and the grass is green'.

9 months plus 6-10 days for twins i find, about a week or so on average shorter gestation than a single calf.

I had a CH cow last month carry 283 days with Angus twins. I didn’t know she was having them.

286 days was the longest with twins here.

11 years calving cows and this was the best year yet, all calved well and lovely big strong calves.

Went out this morning to find a 9 year old cow (very first calf I ever calved myself) had blood trickling from her belly. Brought her in and treated it, stopped the bleeding and all seemed fine. Ate the full bucket of meal so no issues there… girlfriend checked her at 2 o clock today and cow was sitting pretty in the field chewing away… I came home at 17:30 and there she is dead in the field. Vet came and said it was a ruptured milk vein. Sickening stuff. Where you’ve livestock you’ve dead stock and all that, but it’s some kick in the teeth at the same time.
800kg beast, her twin calves looking for a drink, and her the quietest cow you could find- she’d let any calf suck off her she had that much milk.
F*** it anyway.
thankfully she’s left me some great memories and some super offspring that’ll keep the bloodline going. Her daughter is currently letting the twins suck now so she’s carrying the burden of feeding 3 calves.

What's the earliest you debud calves? He'll be 10 days next weekend and was hoping to do him then, we normally wait till there over 2 weeks and use local anastic. Big LM calf has strong buds already.

Not trying to worry you but any concern any daughters of hers would be prone to same thing. Sounds like a weakness that was going to happen sometime. As if there isn't enough things to worry about

Had cows down by the bank of the river a few years ago ,the same thing happened. The vet taught it might be a nick from a mink.