Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Five tips to help calving go as smoothly as possible
It’s a tough time but there are ways to make it easier
‘Yes, you’ll be wrecked but watching new life take its first wobbly steps is a privilege and for me at least, never gets old’ Photo: Andy Gibson
It was quarter past midnight and I was gently warming colostrum on the stove. The Herefords had decided that it was time to give the dairy girls a run for their money in terms of tight calving intervals, with the first two calves landing within eight hours of each other.
The only issue was that we’d only just managed to get the second Hereford out of the slatted shed before the crúibíní appeared and all the movement had delayed her beestings.
