Calving in a sentence

Calving gates are a simple but incredibly useful tool to help restrain the cow when needing to work closely with her at the point of calving, but also when needing to handle the calf on its own.

In anticipation of calving season, Kansas State University Animal Sciences and Industry and K-State Research and Extension are planning a series of calving schools in January.

But those bison have settled into the park so well that when calving season concludes this year, their population will be closer to 100.

Joe and his two sons Daryl and Alvin milk 95 cows on an all-year-round calving system.

Of course, some folks solve the problem by calving later in the spring, but that means they have to wean later in the year.

Range in Australian waters extends north to winter breeding/calving areas in the Kimberley (west coast population) and Great Barrier Reef (east coast population).

South Dakota State University specialists say calving cameras come in various specifications to meet most needs.

The Inuit and the wildlife they depend on here share a tightly intertwined habitat – including the summer calving ground of 50,000 Ahiak caribou and polar bear denning areas.

This leads to deteriorating health, stunted growth and lower reproductive success, including delayed calving and calves with lower probabilities of survival.

With cows, since they are less prone to calving difficulty, she said some producers may prefer to take more risks with a lower accuracy sire who is often younger or a natural service sire.

He would constantly be asking about the farm, how the harvest was going and how the calving season had fared.

Nothing can completely prevent dystocia and careful observation needs to be given to the cowherd at calving time, but hopefully incidences of dystocia can be lowered following some of the above management practices.

One Saturday evening, I was left in charge during the calving season.

This should allow you to achieve a goal of a 13-month calving interval.

And much of the work is highly physical, especially tasks associated with calving and flood-irrigation, which her family practices, further complicating hiring the right people., Hergenrider said.

But many that were lost will never be found, buried so deep in ice sheets or crevasses that they will never emerge – or they are headed out towards the sea within creeping glaciers and calving ice.

Calving is a normal process; goes on all the time, warming or no!

Calving is well underway, and many will also be lambing, or about to start.

Many scientists argue that a calving event was not necessarily due to climate change.

On campus, students manage insemination, calving and the end-of-the-life cycle for beef production and processing.