Most ranchers want calves to be small at birth (for easier calving), especially for first-calf heifer—to they won’t have to pull calves or have their vet deliver a big calf by C-section surgery.

Then I remembered using this giant calf stretcher at a physical therapist’s office once, and in a fit of desperation, I ordered one off Amazon. It is the size of a microwave, ...

This is Big Mama's eighth calf. She also has seven grand calves and four great-grand calves. Big Mama arrived in the Haro Strait earlier this week, bringing her eighth calf along with her.