Trusting Natural Calving Processes

mama do their thing come back and check on them oh here in just a little while uh probably right before dark just to make sure uh if baby does get down and they can get hypothermic but it's just not that cold out here so I think we'll be just fine 13.5 so yeah that makes a total of 14 right all right I'm going to walk up here we'll kind of talk a little bit I did not anticipate going live uh right now I got my camera guy coming we're going to rebuild that steel chainsaw here a little bit later later today and as I step further away from mama and baby I think we're going to see him nursing let me turn that camera around a little bit so you guys can watch this is all normal this calf has been on the ground for oh probably probably less than 10 minutes I mean it was still wet so yep short bu mooner says means more yummy beef is that cow going to feed that calf so again you know as people we we tend to want everything our way right away we got that Burger King philosophy on life it's got to be done it's got to be done quick it's got to be perfect everything's got to be right let me tell you you got to leave these animals alone got to just leave them alone get away from them let them do their thing I have struggled with cows trying to C and it did not work out I've struggled and struggled and struggled uh with a cow that I thought was having trouble calving I left her alone for what 25 minutes or so and she had her calf so stressing these animals running these animals what you guys can't see and mama and baby are right there okay what you can't see is that Mom is licking that baby but while I was over there mom was pushing and shoving that baby so it's important to just shut up and leave the animal alone just shut up and leave them alone it makes so much sense yeah whenever they're calling for a storm you do have a you do have a little more risk of having babies Denise says let Mother Nature do her thing exactly that's a strong little calf it's I mean the fact that it's stumbling around on the Rocks over there really means something really says something about the strength of that calf and it'll follow Mom Mom will be just fine mom's got plenty of milk um the calf is Seeking a nipple to suckle mom's licking it dry right now so I'll come back I'll post a a photo in the uh Community page over on YouTube a little later on as I come back and check on Mom and baby so it is pretty amazing to watch and that'll be uh 501 2025 01 that's what that Cav's number will be…