Year-Round Calving and Financial Strategy

May, really April, May, June. I leave my bull with my cows here all the time. A cow's gestation period is 9 months, just like a woman. A cow ovulates once per month. Okay, just a lunar cycle just like a human. Okay, nine months to carry the baby. They ovulate every month. So, every time we have a calf, a month later, Donnie is making a new calf, right? So, we're rotating through and eventually we'll have our cows to where they might produce a calf in January and then another calf in December. So, we're getting more productivity out of our animals by leaving the bull with the the cows. Okay? We don't need to focus so much on the spring flush. And I really, this was preached to me when I first started farming, first started ranching, is that I need my cows to hit the ground, my baby calves to hit the ground right at the spring flush, right when the weather was just popping. And what I found is that increases the fly load, increases the insect load on the animals, it increases the workload on the farmer because the grass is taller and I can't find the calves. They're all buried up in the grass. So, what I'm finding is letting them naturally cycle through and breed and have their calves is what's been working the best with me here in North Carolina. Again, you live in Montana, you live in Utah, you live in a cold climate, you don't want a cal with with 10 degrees below zero and a 40 mph wind. You don't want to do that. I don't even know how they ranch out there like that. I It's just too much to even consider. And I know they lose a lot of animals like that. They just have to lose a lot of animals because you can't be there on the ground 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in a 10,000 acre ranch. You just can't do that. So, just want to give you guys a little bit of science here behind what's going on in this area of the country. And I'd say you're probably safe anywhere from Ohio down in the southern states to cal virtually year round. There's some more science behind the finances of caling year round as well. So, I can take these calves to market at about six or seven months once they're weaned. Five to to eight months. Let's just say that once they're weaned, I can take them to market. Do I want to take all of my animals? I want to have them born in April and May and then take all of them to the sail barn at the end of the year when everybody's taking their animals to the sail barn and it drives the prices down. So, what I want to do is I want to cal throughout…