Life on the farm begins here.

How can you tell when a cow is likely to calve? One of the biggest clues is a change in the herd’s pecking order, because hierarchy really matters to cows and when it shifts it often means someone is about to calve or isn’t quite right; we also talk about watching for cross-suckling when last year’s calf has had her own calf, and how strong the instinct is in Stabilisers – they want to live, they want to suckle, and those natural drives are powerful things to understand and respect.