Winning at weaning

Nov 12, 2025
Nov 12, 2025

Glenn Brunkow

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Last week we weaned our spring calves. Jennifer and I caught the cows and calves and hauled them into our working pens to give the calves their second round of shots. We will let them stay nose to nose with mom for a couple of weeks and then haul the mammas out to corn stalks.

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Glenn Brunkow is a fifth-generation farmer in the Northern Flint Hills of Pottawatomie County in Kansas. He was a county Extension educator for 19 years before returning to farm and ranch full time. He can be reached at editorial@midwestmessenger.com.