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Life is Simple
Life is Simple
The Midwest Cattleman · September 9, 2021 · P5

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Jerry Crownover the first day of February, give the herd of cows at that farm, the conception date), but ex-
or take a few days either way. something caught my atten- actly the color of my neigh-
In a normal year, 90-95% of tion. It couldn’t be—but it bor’s bull. Oh, well, as another
my cows will give birth by was—a brand new baby calf one of my neighbors says, “A
the end of April, which should suckling its mother. Shocked live calf is always welcome at
throw me into that category of and surprised, I turned the my place.”
good cattlemen, but…. vehicle around and headed The rest of my cows started
On November 14th of last toward the newborn, only to calving during the last week of
year, I was in my UTV, on the discover that it was the wrong January, and all but a handful
way to my favorite hunting color to be out of one of my had completed their task by
spot, on the first day of deer bulls (not to mention that my
season. As I traveled through bulls were two miles away at continued on page 12

Most good cattlemen will
tell you that their calving
season, whether it be in the
spring or fall, should be as
close to sixty days long, as
possible—certainly no longer
than ninety days. As I’ve long
suspected, I’m not in that cat-
egory of good cattlemen.
In most years, during the
last full week of April, I turn
my bulls out with the cows.
Given the gestation period of a
cow, I can expect the first calf
to be born somewhere around

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