Keeping Calves On Their Mommas Through The Winter May Make For Smarter Cows
By Heather Smith Thomas: Sims Cattle Company is a grass and cattle outfit run by Scott and April Sims and their son Shanon and his wife Melinda. Scott and Shanon are third and fourth generation, respectively, on this Wyoming ranch. Recently they have been making a lot of innovative changes in their operations. “We’d been taking our replacement heifers to Torrington, at lower elevation, putting them on silage to develop them through the winter, and then bring them back home for summer grazing. “We decided we’d try leaving the heifer calves on the cows for the winter, not weaning them until they are 10 months old...
