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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 1114276" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>Cowgirl8... if you even have to think of looking at your heifers when your BW's are 30 to 60 lbs, you have a serious problem with your heifers.. malpresentations the exception of course. In the 400 calves born here, we've lost 1 cow and calf due to size (the first year, when we bought lousy stock), and had 1 hard pull 3 years ago, where both survived. I've had a bunch of malpresentations that have caused losses, and a few others that needed a little bit of a hand, but we don't own a calf puller and have gotten by just fine. Over the last 5 years our BW's have been about 90 lb for heifer calves, 105 on bull calves, and from first timers, take about 10-15 lbs off that. My stubborn opinion is that you shouldn't have to be worried about BW on a mature cow, and on a heifer, just nothing extreme</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 1114276, member: 9096"] Cowgirl8... if you even have to think of looking at your heifers when your BW's are 30 to 60 lbs, you have a serious problem with your heifers.. malpresentations the exception of course. In the 400 calves born here, we've lost 1 cow and calf due to size (the first year, when we bought lousy stock), and had 1 hard pull 3 years ago, where both survived. I've had a bunch of malpresentations that have caused losses, and a few others that needed a little bit of a hand, but we don't own a calf puller and have gotten by just fine. Over the last 5 years our BW's have been about 90 lb for heifer calves, 105 on bull calves, and from first timers, take about 10-15 lbs off that. My stubborn opinion is that you shouldn't have to be worried about BW on a mature cow, and on a heifer, just nothing extreme [/QUOTE]
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