Thursday, April 11, 2024

Time to separate Haynes

This morning Donna saw that Haynes was getting interested in one of my cows.  He tried to mount her but fortunately she wasn't in standing heat - yet.  The first cow to have a calf this year had her calf a month ago - 30 days ago.  The cow Haynes was trying to mount was the third cow to have a calf this year - on March 14 - not even 30 days ago.   Normally cows don't come into heat until 45-50 days later.  But in 2020 I had a cow come into heat 34 days after having her calf.  Guess what, she then had her next calf early - January 30, 2021.  I don't want that to happen again.  So Donna and I herded Haynes into the south part of the corral to be by himself until June 1.

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