Now, when it comes to cving season, if you live in Montana, you don't want to cave in January, okay? You don't want to cave when it's 10° below zero, 20° below zero, and the wind is whipping. You see, uh, other farms and ranches struggle with this, having calves at the wrong time of year for their climate. Now, we are in a temperate climate here in North Carolina, and we don't have to worry about that so much. So, it is right now early January, and my temperature is going to be up to 58° here today. That's not a concern for CVing. In fact, cows prefer a temperature around 55°. That's what they prefer. A little information for you if you don't know cattle and if you don't know um how this all works. If a calf is born in the summertime, it has its summer coat on. If a calf is born in the winter time, it comes out fluffy and fuzzy. That's just how it works. It doesn't come out of the mom in the wintertime with a thin summer coat. It comes out robust and strong and ready to be a calf, ready to drink and healthy. If you've got an unhealthy animal, it's not going to make any difference whether it's wintertime or summertime. You're still going to have to take care of that unhealthy animal. We don't have a lot of trouble with birthing because we have a South Pole bull, which is Donnie over here. He's a smaller bull, a smaller stature bull with larger stature cattle. When we have that, we don't have trouble birthing. Now, if you live in a place like Missouri where it's 10° below zero this time of year, uh then you may want to consider CVing in the springtime during the spring flush. But you really don't have to consider it so much here in a place like North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, virtually 3/4 of the country, you don't have to worry about this. Okay? even West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, you guys were not having to worry so much because these are again very strong, very robust animals. Now, if you're out west, if you're in Missouri, if you're in Montana, if you're in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, these places that get subzero temperatures, that's when you really want to focus on having your calves sometime in March, April, May, really April, May, June. I leave my
