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Life is Simple
Life is Simple
The Midwest Cattleman · April 23, 2020 · P5

Copyright 2020, Other than fighting the say, it kept both the wife and phone). The cow and calf both
Jerry Crownover mud, my calving season has me busy, checking and treat- seemed fine, so there were no
been fairly typical. I had to ing. worries.
pull a couple of calves, a cou- During the height of the ep- Most cows with newborns
ple more were DOA, and I idemic, one old cow delivered keep to themselves for a day
had to treat a couple for the her new little heifer on the or two, before integrating
sniffles. Everything was mov- backside of the home place. back into the main herd, but
ing along like normal, until a I found it early one morning, this particular cow and calf
couple of weeks ago when the tagged it, and entered the were still off by themselves for
calf scours began to spread color, size and sex into my an entire week. Noticing their
through the herd of new phone (yes, no more paper re- prolonged absence each morn-
calves, like a grass fire on the cords for me, since I learned
plains of Kansas. Needless to how to operate my smart- continued on page 10

Here at my place, spring
calving season is just about
over. I’m waiting on four old
girls that look pretty close,
then, all that will be left is the
handful of cows that typically
have late-spring calves (July
and August). The experts tell
me that I should either con-
vert them to fall calvers, or
just sell them, but I remember
learning a long time ago that
an expert is simply someone
more than fifty miles from
home, or…who writes in a
magazine.

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