The breed is known by its easy calving and good nature.

Calving starts about July so there should be farm work available.

Under the owner's sure guidance the calving was quickly completed.

The calving and lambing would be taken care of somehow.

Most calves are born in the summer, though some calving occurs throughout the year.

It was a happy ending to the most peaceful calving I have ever attended.

I had started feeling sorry for myself three hours ago, driving across Darrow by market place on the way to a calving.

Calving is thought to happen every two years.

Calving of ice shelves is usually preceded by a rift.

The breed's strong points are the now desired traits of easy calving and longevity.

There is always a time at a bad calving when you begin to wonder if you will ever win the battle.

Cattle are normally bred during the summer so that calving may occur the following spring.

She didn't know you had done the calving.

Calving is the act of a cow or heifer giving birth to a calf.

It is also an important calving and grazing area for semi-domesticated reindeer.

They are known for easy calving and successfully rearing a high proportion of their calves.

Gestation lasts approximately 12 to 15 months and calving occurs once every 3 to 5 years.

He rubbed a hand across his face, smelling blood still on his skin from the calving.

But most of the bisons' calving is done in the park, away from cattle.

I've come straight from the calving and I didn't even get a cup of tea when I'd finished.

Calving is an important form of ablation for glaciers that terminate in freshwater, also.

This is the mother camel's first calving.

The bond a mother shares with her calf varies, though it can last until her next calving.

It was nearly always the same thing when the bedside phone exploded in your ear in the small hours - a calving.

This study presents the first observational evidence linking a tsunami to ice-shelf calving.

I had a cow to care for; she was calving.

Then he ran home and asked his wife whether the cow had calved.

Production levels peak at around 40 to 60 days after calving.

Females are believed to calve on average once every three years.

He's not quite happy about a cow due to calve.

Cows are at their most fertile between 60 and 80 days after calving.

Mothers calve, with usually a single offspring, about once every five years.

All was well at first, but when she calved it was another story.

The animals calve precisely where the oil companies would most like to drill.

Calving interval was 405 days with a standard deviation of 60.

Zulu was in there, trying to calve for a while with no luck.

Following the breeding schedule, spring was calving and round up.

So far this winter, 34 cows have calved, and another 33 are due any minute.

Unlike cows, you don't have to get up in the middle of the night and calve them.

If I told you to look after my cow, and she calved, then the calf would still be mine.

A dam can calve every year for as long as 15 years.

"I was hoping to get some of the mommas out there before they calve."

The ship was small enough to get so close to a glacier that we could hear the crack as it calved.

The glacier was about to calve, under gunfire it had never before encountered.

She watched an iceberg, recently calved off the island, drift away to the west.

His wife had invariably been to lambing and, sometimes, calving courses.

"To appear as if they calved from a glacier."

Even further out in the southwest approaches, the ice edge was floating and calving.

You may set your mind at rest: the cow has not calved yet.'

We've not had so much excitement since the cow calved,' Jane remarked.