113 | Kidding Season Week One: Forty Does, No Assists

We are one week into kidding season. Forty does have kidded, seventy-eight kids on the ground, two sets of quads, four sets of triplets, and we have not assisted on a single birth. Not one. Today I want to tell you about day two, when four does kidded in a rainstorm, and the harder question that was sitting underneath all of it: how do you know where the line is between trusting your animals to do it themselves or intervening? Let's get to it.

 

Episode Mentions:

110 | Kidding Management: How Our Kidding System Evolved, PART 1 of 3
111 | Kidding Management: Selection Pressure and Behavior Reshaping, PART 2 of 3
112 | Kidding Management: Building the Right System for Your Operation, Part 3 of 3
100 | Management Flexibility: Why Helping Too Much Hurts Your Livestock

 

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