IluvABbeef
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Let me know if this has been discussed on here before, but I couldn't help but do a little reading on this.
Seems like the show heifers are being overfed at an age that they're reaching their puberty and they're reproductive organs are at the stage of final growth and development, which would be at around 8 to 13 months.
And this overfeeding would hamper (or even retard) their effectiveness to becoming replacement heifers or just being able to calve properly thus wasting the time and money of the producer who aimed making a paticular show heifer (who was initially growing at 1.5#/day, now had increased to 2.5#/day on an extra ration of grain just because she's being showed) a future replacement heifer for his/her herd. Not anymore. She's better off at the feedlot, if you can't make her loose that extra weight some way or another.
Now for my "dumbass" question. Does this overweight thing apply to ONLY showcattle, or can it apply to heifers in general, depending on the feedstuff/diet that your giving them?
Seems like the show heifers are being overfed at an age that they're reaching their puberty and they're reproductive organs are at the stage of final growth and development, which would be at around 8 to 13 months.
And this overfeeding would hamper (or even retard) their effectiveness to becoming replacement heifers or just being able to calve properly thus wasting the time and money of the producer who aimed making a paticular show heifer (who was initially growing at 1.5#/day, now had increased to 2.5#/day on an extra ration of grain just because she's being showed) a future replacement heifer for his/her herd. Not anymore. She's better off at the feedlot, if you can't make her loose that extra weight some way or another.
Now for my "dumbass" question. Does this overweight thing apply to ONLY showcattle, or can it apply to heifers in general, depending on the feedstuff/diet that your giving them?