Cold nights? I thought it was mostly cold, rainy, windy nights. [img]/forums/images/icons/wink.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

We have one day of snow between days in 70's and 80's and that is when my wife's favorite first time heifer calves. Our very first two calves ever came on cold windy rainy nights.

I now prefer to feed late in the day as it tends to increase the odds of a daytime birth. So far it has worked pretty well since we started doing it. I have never had to pull a calf of mine or call in a vet, even for first timers, but if I had to call out the vet it would be much nicer to do it in the daytime and not 0300 during a storm.

Patrick