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I had a deal for a few years with a life time friend. I fall calve and he spring calve. He would take the Bulls in the spring and I would take them in the fall. While we had different breeds we both had good cross breeds to sell and yet enough straight Breda for replacements. I did have one bull...

When we had a dairy I always fed dry cows at evening. I believe it causes significant increase in daytime calving.

Keep extra heifer until next year. You can always sell a extra but you can't get one back.

I would suggest selling the free Martin heifer and letting the bull have all the milk.

I expect mine to rebreed right with the older cows and they do. It's mostly meeting their nutritional needs.

A very Simmental calf and looks fine. The heifer being Simmental will try to milk hard so keep her nutrition up so she will breed back when you want.

Line breeding is a tool. When I was in college at SDSU the dairy science department was experimenting with inbreeding trying to develop two separate lines. They Definitly found the under oracle traits from what I saw. When they crossed the two lines later they Definitly produced a animal...

If there isn't a disease problem I'll bet on a serious nutrition problem. Speaking from past experience. I had a preg check much like yours and since then I have doubled down on nutrition. Last preg check I had one old cow who had bred real late and one yearling that just kept coming in heat. My...

I wouldn't cull them as they will probably never have a problem again.

I have seen this before. I think the question is how bad you want this heifer because there is expense and risk of repeating this behavior.

The best time is that time that fits the labor, management, facilities, market, and feed supply of a individual operation.

Hfrs often get a little udder development at about seven months. Unless she may have a earlier breeding date I would just keep a eye on her.

Calving ease and birth weights are not necissaily parallel. I had it in my head that calving ease went to often with little potty cattle. But I have learned that the conformation of the calf being birthed is as important as the weight of the calf. The Simmental bull, Dream On, is a great example...

I have only tried what your planning a couple times and didn't have good results. Mel

Perhaps it is time to cull and replace three heifers...... The rest of your heifers bred okay. I don't have much patience with problem breeders! Mel

Many years ago I had the honor of visiting with Jerry Litton at his office. He was one of the early cattleman experimenting with pelvic measurements. He told me that maturnal dominance seemed to dictate size of calf so that a heifer tended to have a calf that would pass through her pelvis...

We would change there eating habits by feeding them late afternoon. This gives us most calves in the morning.

Mineral is important as stated. Also energy level of thier diet so that they are gaining weight. A third that I feel is important is to keep what you are feeding consistent at least thirty days after breeding. The time when the embryo actually attaches to the uterine wall is the most critical...

I have a life long friend who shares Bulls with me. He spring calves and I calve late summer. We each keep the Bulls about six months. He runs Herefords an I run red simmentals. We both select cows for cross breeding. I AI cows I want most of my replacements from. Are Bulls are used to each...

Weaning the calves a little early is probably a good idea but if you have them in good flesh I doubt they will have a problem breeding back. Mel