Some calving cows and heifers may just need more time to go through the different stages of labour, rather than have immediate assistance to get the calf out quickly. Yet too many dairy and beef herds ...

Most of you reading this now will be getting ready for calving and lambing in the next month. Every year when this time comes around, us farmers promise ourselves that we will do better and not repeat ...

Mother Nature didn’t exactly co-operate this year for cow-calf farms who calve in early spring. Areas of the Prairies were ...

Experienced farm vet and pedigree Aberdeen-Angus breeder, Hugh Thomson, believes many farmers are chasing high prices in the store ring for Continental-type calves – at the expense of cow health, calf ...

The calving process is natural and a majority of time it happens without much fanfare—which is by design. However, there are situations where cows or heifers need help and intervention is necessary to ...

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