Rafter T Calf Hoods

08/03/2024

If you’re at the Roblin Rodeo and Fair today come visit Shannon and check out our booth at the Skating Rink Artisan Market!

04/25/2024

Here is the scanned version of the Roblin Review article, hopefully it’s slightly more legible!

04/24/2024

Our hardware free calf blanket, slip the hood over the head and under the front legs, strong elastic loops go around the back legs, making for a weather resistant cover that’s functional and fashionable!

04/24/2024

A bit late but a massive shoutout and thank you to Jennifer Laviolette of The Roblin Review for interviewing Shannon and sharing our story in our local newspaper last week! 📰

I’m working on tracking down a copy to scan properly but hopefully everyone can read just from the photos! 🥰🥰🥰

03/31/2024

So our calf hood pattern has been carefully designed to waste as little fabric as possible, but obviously there is some that cannot be helped. Grammy gave me a big bag of the cutouts from the eye holes and ear holes of the hoods, and told me to find a use for them!

As a little kid, I used to sew the eye hole cutouts into pockets to use as beds for my Littlest Pet Shop toys, and we were going to use these scraps for crafts with our local playgroup, and then Easter came along and I had a better idea! I took the ear hole cutouts which are oblong leaf shapes, and I sewed them into Easter eggs for my son’s Easter basket! 🐣🍫

These fabric eggs were the perfect size to hold a single treat each, they reduce plastic waste by replacing conventional plastic eggs, they’ll be reused for years to come, and they’re recycling these fabric scraps! 💚♻️💚

03/31/2024

Happy Easter from all of us at Rafter T Calf Hoods! 🪺🐣🐰🥚🍫🌱🌸🌷 sending warm wishes to the calves being born, the plants sprouting, and all our farmers and ranchers preparing for spring 🥰

03/20/2024

Oh how cute…this Highland calf is about 50 Lbs…maybe a size small hood would fit her better but this shows that a bigger hood will still work to cover those ears…I am having fun creating the Calf Cover blankets…thank you for sharing this pic Mary…it does our hearts good to see our products helping our fellow producers!

03/12/2024

Where there is a will…there is a way…old cowgirls never quit we find another way of doing things…both my knees are trashed and one pops out of joint when I bend over…so I sit on a footstool when I Bag ‘em and Tag em! 🤣 Happy Calving everyone!

03/09/2024

03/09/2024

HaHa that’s how I feel right now!! I check 2 times in a row so my hubby can get a block of sleep..except last night…3 hours after he went to bed I had to wake him up to put a Calfhood and blanket on a fresh calf…Lorne and I are in our late 60’s and what one of us used to do alone and think nothing of it…now for safety we have the policy of it now takes 2 of us to do that job!

03/05/2024

Our blizzard baby is enjoying his lunch…this pic shows how our calf covers are strapped on…there is an elastic across the chest…he is 80 Lbs and wearing a size large cover!

03/04/2024

Our Blizzard baby is snug and warm!!!

03/03/2024

We are now calving ourselves… but I have an inventory of Calfhoods presewn to sell to other cow/calf producers…Have some Calf Covers (blankets ) Available…in sizes medium and large…

02/20/2024

We have noticed if we feed grain at supper time that more calves are born in the morning…

02/16/2024

Sweet Early Baby! Thanks Karen Fowler Drul for sending in this pic of her calf born on Valentine’s Day wearing a Rafter T calf blanket! “The blanket sure did help him warm up and dry off more once we got him and mom into barn”

💜💜Plus the bright purple looks beautiful on this little white calf, what a cutie!💜💜💜

📸We love seeing your pictures and reading your reviews! ⌨️

If you have any pictures of your calves wearing our hoods or blankets, please DM us or post them to our page! Leaving a review on our page helps us a ton too! Happy calving!

02/14/2024

🐮 🐎 🧒 🍀 Our winner is Susann Stone! 🐮 🐎 🧒 🍀

Congratulations Susann you’ve won this lovely green and yellow calf hood!

Sorry for the late posting, I had to tally up the entries (in the future, pls verify that all instructions have been followed, and that you’ve liked our page!)

💖Thank you everyone for entering our annual Valentine’s Day draw, please remember to like our page and share our posts, happy calving to you all! 💖

03/14/2023

When a heifer has twins...

02/26/2023

Haha!