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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 1309991" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>really hard to say.. All beginnings are tough.. When we started out we bought 12 bred heifers, lost 3 calves and a heifer the first year and had huge birthweights (the heifer we lost had a 110 lb bull calf).. the heifers were also not up to the size they should have been, but we didn't know which end of the cow gets up first back then either. I've had other heavy birthweights since (another 110 lb bull in a heifer) and have never lost another one</p><p></p><p>While 80lbs on a heifer may need some help, I don't see it as a 'cow killing' kind of birthweight either. </p><p>Perhaps a bull got into the heifer pen, and when they synched for AI they were already bred and didn't abort the existing calf? That bull may not have been intended for heifers.</p><p></p><p>I really don't know about any LEGAL recourse, but I would talk to them about it and see if they have any honor, and at least meet you halfway somewhere.. What may strengthen your argument is if you take a blood sample from the calves and get a paternity test done, which should match up with the advertised bull they were mated to.. if that doesn't happen, there may be a legal recourse if all else fails.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 1309991, member: 9096"] really hard to say.. All beginnings are tough.. When we started out we bought 12 bred heifers, lost 3 calves and a heifer the first year and had huge birthweights (the heifer we lost had a 110 lb bull calf).. the heifers were also not up to the size they should have been, but we didn't know which end of the cow gets up first back then either. I've had other heavy birthweights since (another 110 lb bull in a heifer) and have never lost another one While 80lbs on a heifer may need some help, I don't see it as a 'cow killing' kind of birthweight either. Perhaps a bull got into the heifer pen, and when they synched for AI they were already bred and didn't abort the existing calf? That bull may not have been intended for heifers. I really don't know about any LEGAL recourse, but I would talk to them about it and see if they have any honor, and at least meet you halfway somewhere.. What may strengthen your argument is if you take a blood sample from the calves and get a paternity test done, which should match up with the advertised bull they were mated to.. if that doesn't happen, there may be a legal recourse if all else fails. [/QUOTE]
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