| The event was unusual, because it was the second-largest iceberg to calve in the region in 26 months. |
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| Not all cows calve by day, so cows have to be monitored for up to 200 nights per year. |
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| Arctic icebergs tend to calve from fast-moving glaciers and, therefore, tend to look like small mountains bobbing in the sea. |
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| Kafue lechwe are happiest standing in up to 50 cm depth of water, only coming out to rest or calve. |
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| Also, heifers that conceive earlier in their first breeding season calve earlier and wean heavier calves. |
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| Unlike on most dairy farms, all the cows calve at the same time of year, and the cows are not milked in wintertime. |
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| They're very easily kept, you don't need a shed for them and they calve easily. |
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| But Mrs Appleby said she was not fazed by the work, including the first time she had to help a cow calve. |
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| If the legs move at each strain it is likely that the cow will calve without too much trouble. |
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| Cows that calve in hot summer months may experience a longer period from parturition to subsequent pregnancy. |
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| It has shelves that calve big icebergs all the time, and we've tracked a lot of bergs from there. |
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| A few years ago there was a fad for using anionic salts in the cows' dry period to prevent milk fever when they calve. |
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| Ewes due to lamb, cows due to calve, ran terrified through fences. |
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| Using stable sea kayaks, we'll explore a remote corner of this region, search for wildlife in sheltered coves, and watch glaciers calve into ice-choked bays. |
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| Cetacean breeding is seasonal, usually in the winter, and females normally calve once every two years. |
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| Eight of the ice field's outflowing glaciers reach the sea and calve icebergs into the fjords. |
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| Now we have, in the past three years averaged one hundred and sixty-seven head of cows to calve each spring. |
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| How else to safely see polar bears in the wild, watch glaciers calve from great frozen walls and icebergs the size of shopping malls float by? |
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| As the original glacier diminished in size, it left 20 separate glaciers, of which 11 are tidewater glaciers that calve into the bay. |
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| The two crop about 1,500 acres and calve about 200 head of cows in March and early April. |
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| An ice-shelf being itself the floating part of a glacier reaching the sea, and from which icebergs will gradually calve. |
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| Pelagic stocks mate and calve in autumn and winter, and thus their critical habitats are towards the equator. |
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| Of that 75, by the time they calve out this spring, 15 or 20 of them that will not have a calf and will have to be sold. |
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| Stand on the towering Bunda Cliffs and watch southern right whales that mate and calve in these protected waters between May and October. |
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| After all, healthy calves grow up to become fertile heifers that calve easily and produce large quantities of quality milk. |
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| Explore Warrnambool, where from May to October Southern Right Whales calve off Logan Beach. |
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| Stand on Logans Beach in Warrnambool, where between June and September, southern right whales calve in the nursery close to shore. |
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| Barren-ground caribou cows head toward traditional calving grounds, where they gather to calve year after year, even from different wintering areas. |
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| They form when pieces of glacier ice break off or calve into the sea. |
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| Most studies agree that belugas calve once every three years, while age specific fecundity is lacking for most stocks because of low sample sizes. |
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| See them mate and calve in the nursery waters of Warrnambool or arrive from Antarctic waters with humpback whales in Tasmania's picturesque Great Oyster Bay. |
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| Visit them frequently, keep an eye on your management dial to inseminate at the proper weight and height so that they calve at 24 months of age in optimal shape. |
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| Mothers calve, with usually a single offspring, about once every five years. |
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| They are more confident now when cows are getting ready to calve. |
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| Let the calve suckle for a restricted time, 15 to 20 minutes, twice daily and then you continue to milk by hand for collection of milk for home consumption or sale. |
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| Additionally, they calve only once every five years on average. |
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| Most tidewater glaciers calve above sea level, which often results in a tremendous impact as the iceberg strikes the water. |
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| Owing to their origin in narrow, fast-flowing glaciers, many Arctic bergs calve into random shapes that often develop further as they fracture and capsize. |
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| Sea ice may be contrasted with icebergs, which are chunks of ice shelves or glaciers that calve into the ocean. |
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| These shelves then melt or calve off to give icebergs that eventually melt. |
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| The main source of ice islands used to be the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf on Canada's Ellesmere Island near northwestern Greenland, but the ice shelf has been retreating as ice islands and bergs continue to calve from it. |
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| Toe positions, foot angles and his full range superset calve exercises! |
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| The BAS team used a single WorldView2 satellite image of a bay where southern right whales gather to calve and mate. |
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| However, said Mr Mac Sharry, a number of factors have contributed to an imbalanced market, particularly increased production, reduced consumption, the discovery of BSE, the Gulf War, calve imports and German unification. |
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| As the ice reaches the sea, pieces break off, or calve, forming icebergs. |
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| Females become sexually mature by their third or fourth year and can calve each year for several consecutive years, being pregnant and lactating at the same time. |
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