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Thanks everyone for your thoughts and suggestions. I know this isn't what most would do but as dun pointed out...it is what I did and where I am at and I am committed to making this work. I am not interested in making money right now but I am trying to learn systems so I can potentially make...

Dun, I understand, just telling you what my experience has been so far. The thing I love about electric fence is that it only took me 15 minutes to get it up and running again. I use the fence as a subdivider. I have a hard perimeter fence that keeps everything from leaving the property.

Dun, I have found that because I use wire it seems to be hard for them to see. So when I have not taken them out and "shown" them where it was (in all places), they ran right through it when they got scared. After I would show them, they never bothered it again.

Thanks everyone. I am going to put a weaning ring on the calf, hopefully today, and start working on milking the cow. I know she needs a period of dry, but as I understand it, it only needs to be about 3 months before then next calf and she was bred in December or January so I've got a good 6...

Djinwa, Thanks for your thoughts. The heifer does have horns...apparently nobody has told her though. I get the idea of the heifer getting older, but why does she let the steer half her size push her around? Mind that she does this even when the cow is tied up so she can't defend the calf.

jtbakv, Thanks for your response. These cows get to be about 700 pounds so you can typically put 2 full grown per acre. I don't know if the old heifer butted the younger at the breeders place. But I'm guessing not, because they were together with about 20 other cows in a sorting pen. The...

It usually takes a lot to get me to this point because I'm not one to quit easily but I've had to admit to myself that I really don't know what to do. Maybe you can help? I purchased two heifers (Dexters) in October of 2010 that were both suppose to be bred (I'll get to that in a moment). I...