WATFORD CITY, N.D. — For five months the girls and I have been feeding bottle calves. It’s a long story, the way bottle calves’ stories usually start. First we had one, and then we had two, because if ...

It’s that time of year again, the warmth of the sun has returned, the Bermuda grass is coming out of dormancy, my ghost white legs are seeing some sun, the canola fields are blooming beautifully—in ...

Sometimes a calf loses its mother or has a mother that won’t accept it or can’t feed it. Many ranchers have raised calves on bottles. It might be an orphan or a twin—and the mother doesn’t have enough ...

Springtime brings flowers, (hopefully) rain showers, the reminder of what it feels like to have the sun warm you skin and of course baby calves—and with this season, there is always a good chance of ...

It's week two of heavy calving in our cull cow feedlot. This year, it hasn't been fun. My friend, Kari, said it's because I'm getting older, and sensibility is kicking in. You know, that little voice ...

DECORAH, Iowa — Gavin Sims' cow, Mistletoe, was abandoned at birth by its mother. The family's other cow, Cupid, had a similar beginning. Deanna and LeRoy McClintock, left, bottle fed Mistletoe as a ...

The past two weeks have continued to be busy with calving. As I write this, we have 65 calves on the ground, but my husband, Robb, hasn’t finished checking cows yet today. There may have been more ...

The I-29 Extension Dairy Consortium's recent educational effort titled Raising Your Best Calf Ever updated calf raisers on the key components of raising dairy calves. It started with a "Boots on the ...