Calf #301
On January 6th we sold our calves from the year. Here's a timelapse of them loading out. Within a cow/calf operation selling calves is basically the one day of income for the year. Technically there is selling old or open cows as well, but the vast majority of the income is 1 day of the year. It is a day wrought with lots of emotions. Nervousness with how market dependent it is. Relief having these squirrely, fence crawling, needy calves gone, and also sadness to see some animals that you've seen nearly every day go. Here's a brief story of one such calf: In late March we were mostly all done with our first calf heifers calving. Just a few remaining. On March 18th we knew a snowstorm was blowing in, so we went out and rounded in all of the heifers and calves up close into shelter behind the windbreak. I was pretty sure I got them all, but next day we went out and seemed to be missing one calf. The wind a...