How many calves have you had born in one day?

Yesterday was just crazy, We have a group of about 30 fall calvers and they were all bred natural by Amazon, Found a fresh bull calf when I woke up, went to town and came back to a heifer calf, went to check cows around 3 and found another in progress.  Aiden (4) and I watched her, he told me the "Cow pooped the baby out" he even wanted to stay and watch the cow clean the calf he was very interested, went back to barn to get tagger on way back out cow number 4 had a water sack out she had a bull calf, then hubby came in around 7 and said calf 5 was born a heifer.

So in summery we had 5 cows calve yesterday, 3 bulls, 2 heifers, 4 w/ blaze faces, all sired by Amazon

I just find it amazing because we have had 15 ET's all due the same day and have not had this many in one day.  All I know is Amazon was a busy buger last winter!

Congrats, great day to be getting calves. When we used to have some numbers, I think the most that I had in one day was 24. We had around 250 cows @ the time. That's when you hope the day is nice. I'm sure that some in cow country have had bunches in a day.

Trying to remember correctly but i think Fair Oaks Dairy here in indiana on average has a calf every 15 minutes all year round. Like 100 a day. But they have 32,000 cows.

Cows will naturally synch themselves to a certain extent I believe.  Ours always seem to calve in batches.  We'll go a few days with no calves and then a bunch will be born.

chambero....not saying that cows don't synch naturually in bunches, but I think the natural grouping of births has much more to due with the weather factors at calving time....particularily pressure highs and lows.

The most I have had was 18 and I was not even here to see it. I had gone to a bull sale and my dad was home alone. When I got home I asked him if there were any calves born, and he replied that he had no idea how many there were as every time he turned around, something else was calving. I went out and counted 18 new babies.To top this off, we had 12 more the following day. Fortunately, the weather was warm and dry, and all 30 calved without any assistance, and none saw the inside of the barn. It was March 17 and 18th. The hardest part was catching them all to tag them... and keep them straight with the right mom.

Last year we had 52 with only 400 cows! Now figure that one out.

24 with 160 cows

pictures.... ;D

Around here they tend to come in a batch 12 to 24 hours before the biggest blizzard of the spring hits.

We've had  a couple 20+ calf days and let me say that they are a mess.  You loose track pretty quick of who had who.   

We are 50% done with fall calving but when you only have 2 old show heifers due in the fall... 

Yes we need some pictures of those Amazon calves!   

husker1 said:

chambero....not saying that cows don't synch naturually in bunches, but I think the natural grouping of births has much more to due with the weather factors at calving time....particularily pressure highs and lows.

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I'm meaning synching on calving much more so than on breading on this issue.  I'm sure it may not be scientifically correct, but I swear it works that way for us.  But yes, I know changes in weather is a big role two.  We calve out a bunch of heifers every year and we hardly ever have one calve by itself in a day.  They are almost always in groups of 2-6 it seems like.  If we have one calf in the morning, we'd better be ready cause there's almost for sure gonna be more that day.

Had one of my AI  groups of six last year that had 4 calves on the same day all within 90 minutes of each other.  Not the numbers you all are giving but found it very interesting.

5 so far today

The most we have ever had was 16 in one day. I think I had right at 100 cows at that time. RW

This past spring we five in one day with a herd of 34 cows total.

I'm with Husker 1. Whenever a front comes through seems like they can shell them out. One time we 7 calves in a 8 hour window then got 16 inches of snow there shortly after.