When it rains, it pours

[JeffNY]

Well, not at all weather related, the expression itself. I have 4 holsteins due, they are due about 2-8 days apart from each other. I noticed that all 4 are hinting at calving around the same time. Their ligaments are softening, edema has really come on quick with some. Their due dates are as follows, 16th-19th-20th-25th. I doubt they are going for their due dates, as they seem closer. Going to be interesting we go out and find all 4 calving at the same time. No big deal, as long as they calve out easily. I hope out of a couple of these guys I get heifers, they would be good matches for them. One is due to a Alta Merchant calf, hopefully she has a heifer, the other is due to Sully Orbit, and I think that will be a heifer. The other two, not good matches. Either way, next month I have 6 due.


Fun stuff.


Jeff

[TerryJ]

I hope you have all heifers!! I have Brown Swiss and I have an amazing amount of heifers. I have had 6 calves this spring...5 where heifers. My last to calf is due Sept 30th. She is bred to Pollyden..Select Sires top bull, so I rub her tummy every day and tell her how much I like little heifers. She is my favorite heifer so I hope she is listening to me!!! Good luck with your GIRLS!!! P.S. If they go early it is usually a heifer, if they go over their due date it is most likely a bull calf.

[caroline00]

we bought our bull calf (made a steer before we took him home) from a Brown Swiss dairy. They had 2 bull calves born this season... all the others were heifers...