Corn Nation · Apr 18, 2018
Frosted Flakes: Snow, Rewriting Genes, Promposals
The Facebook memes going around declaring this the 105th of January are spot on. This is the winter that doesn’t want to end.
We started calving a few days ago...just in time for a blizzard. For two days, we were bringing cold calves into the garage (loyal farm dog had to give up her bed) to dry them off and warm them up. Once they started running around the garage, and were in danger of falling down the stairs, we either moved them back out to momma cow or to the detached garage.
Fortunately, the mommas all took the calves back. That doesn’t always happen as the smell of the calf is changed when we dry it off, handle it, and mingle it with other cold calves in the garage.