A beautiful March day and calving photos.

It has been another beautiful March day.  I can't believe it was 70 degrees and will be so for the next several days.  What a winter this has been.  I love to watch the new calves run wind sprints and have head butting contests. Sunshine does make everyone feel great!
I promised to upload some calving pictures, that our daughter snapped,several days ago.  I am going to try in this blog.  Here we go!! 
The top photo is getting the pulling chains half hitched around the calf's front knuckles.  Then we just apply steady pressure and work with the heifer.  After the calf is born, a piece of straw is quickly inserted into each nostril and wiggled around to make him/her sneeze out some of the "slime" and get breathing.  This heifer happened to have another calf in her when Jim reached back in to check.  The process was then repeated.  The new mother is then put into the pen with the calves to lick them so they dry off and then getup and nurse.
I hope you enjoyed the pictures or found them educational. Tomorrow I hope to get some pics of the calves playing.
PBR is on, so for now thanks for stoppin by.