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Fertile cows or what?
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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1820552" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Was expecting calves to start the first of Oct, with the vet calling them all in the 4-5 month range when we had preg checked them; Very uniform timing..... Plan was to bring them home from pasture with their older calves, wean, and have close to the 60 dry/rest period. Calve here at the farm where we can watch and tag easier...Got them home around the 10th of Aug... most cows were dry having weaned the calves themselves and the calves never hardly noticed the cows were moved into a different field for calving... Well, they were a little further along than we planned and what the vet called, and have 11 on the ground in the last 10 days... so there are quite a few that backed up to 11 months, and according to my records, a couple were 10 1/2 months. They had been late with the previous calves due to not getting the bulls in as soon as they should have been that year, so they more than have made up for it. </p><p>And we had only 3 out of 70 open when they were checked and we put them out with their calves for the summer since we had alot of grass and our cow numbers were down. They are fat as all get out even though they are older cows so will sell good when we get them in later on. </p><p>Some years it just works out better...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1820552, member: 25884"] Was expecting calves to start the first of Oct, with the vet calling them all in the 4-5 month range when we had preg checked them; Very uniform timing..... Plan was to bring them home from pasture with their older calves, wean, and have close to the 60 dry/rest period. Calve here at the farm where we can watch and tag easier...Got them home around the 10th of Aug... most cows were dry having weaned the calves themselves and the calves never hardly noticed the cows were moved into a different field for calving... Well, they were a little further along than we planned and what the vet called, and have 11 on the ground in the last 10 days... so there are quite a few that backed up to 11 months, and according to my records, a couple were 10 1/2 months. They had been late with the previous calves due to not getting the bulls in as soon as they should have been that year, so they more than have made up for it. And we had only 3 out of 70 open when they were checked and we put them out with their calves for the summer since we had alot of grass and our cow numbers were down. They are fat as all get out even though they are older cows so will sell good when we get them in later on. Some years it just works out better... [/QUOTE]
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