Matt Skoglund

And, you know, and, and so some of those cows are now, uh, like 15, 16 years old.

still having a calf every spring, bred back July and August.

It's unbelievable.

What about twins?

We've had a few sets of twins.

It's rare.

Do they thrive?

In our case, yes.

I've always been nervous because you hear these stories the way mom picks one, and I've watched with a close eye, and to my knowledge, all of our twins have made it.

Like the way it, like when the, when the, when they first start calving, like right now, like I was out there last night and we've got, you know, there were a couple of calves born yesterday.

It's very obvious to tell whose calf is with which mom, like the moms are amazing.

Like those calves are like under their chin, but through the summer, once you've got, you know,

50, 60 calves running around and they're feeling a little bolder and they're running.

You can't keep track of who's who, but to my knowledge, like I watched those twins very closely early on.

And then at some point just never noticed and never found a dead calf.

Yeah.

Well, the main thing is we're just, we're not, we run it as one herd year round.

And so there's lots of things we do that are like not traditional, but I look at it and I'm like weaning, weaning stressful.

The science is clear that the longer that calf, whether it's an elk calf, a black Angus or a pronghorn, like the longer that that calf or a fawn and a pronghorn, the longer that animal's on mom, the healthier that animal is going to be for the rest of its life.

And so I was like, and then weaning is stressful.