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Jane Howard looks forward to welcoming the first of this year’s new arrivals It’s extraordinary how much lighter the evenings are now than they were at Christmas. I know that’s how it works but it’s always surprising and thrilling. And along with the first snowdrops and crocuses there’s also lots of new life about to arrive on the farm to get excited about. The bull went out with the cows last May and ran with them for a couple of months. We used to be much more relaxed about leaving him with the girls for a long lazy summer of love, but we learnt the hard way and found ourselves calving for months on end. Now he goes in in May and out by July, back to a bachelor existence, which means we will only be calving for a couple of months – quite long enough to be keeping a 24 hour vigil to make sure everything goes smoothly. All the cows were pregnancy tested in August and all that information is recorded in my Herdwatch app, so a quick glance at the phone and I can easily tell which order they will calve in. The first sign that a cow is going into labour is a hunched back and a tail held out at a strange angle – she looks and feels very uncomfortable. That might be all that happens for a few hours before the water bag appears and then, if all is well, a pair of hooves and a nose – an indication that everything is in the right position-- and it will be born without the need for assistance. But even then the job isn’t over. However deep and clean the bed of straw, a cow shed is far from hygienic, and the calf will need good immunity from the moment it arrives. This comes from the mother’s colostrum, the first thick milk that is stuffed with antibodies and in the first few hours they must consume at least two litres -- without which their future is precarious. So a few minutes after she’s given birth the cow needs to stand up and start vigorously licking her calf dry – it’s where the saying lick into shape comes from – and then start pushing it to get up and nudging it into position to find her udder. All the cows were pregnancy tested in August and all that information is recorded in my Herdwatch app, so a quick glance at the phone and I can easily tell which order they will calve in An older experienced cow will know exactly what needs to be done and she’ll encourage it every step of the way but sometimes the heifers (first time mums) are far from impressed by the effort of giving birth and see no good reason to pursue motherhood and its associated responsibilities any further, thank you very much. So imagine, it’s three in the morning you’ve pulled and tugged a healthy calf into the world, all is well and it’s time for a cup of tea. It’s sooo annoying then to return half an hour later to discover the wet, confused and shivering calf still lying where it was born while its mother is nonchalantly munching hay with the other cows with a ‘nothing to do with me’ attitude. Grrr. What then follows is an hour of catching the heifer and keeping her restrained behind a gate while trying to get a slippery, wet, heavy (about 40kg) calf to stand up and find the udder through the railings – and sorry, but the bull calves are always far lazier than the girls and would far sooner just expire! Frequently, in an attempt to squirt the milk into the calves mouth, everything – including me – gets covered in sticky yellow colostrum (though it’s apparently very good for the skin) and I wonder why I gave up the day job. But then eventually it happens and nothing, absolutely nothing, sounds better that an enthusiastic slurp slurp slurp with the heifer gently mooing encouragement to her new arrival. Happy days. Find out more about daily life at Coopers Farm by visiting coopersfarmstonegate.co.uk priceless-magazines.com 90
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