Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Cattle Boards
Breeding / Calving Issues
Birth weights
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="cowgirl8" data-source="post: 1114461" data-attributes="member: 22072"><p>Maybe the way yall do cows is different than what we do. Other than hay in the winter, we do not feed our cows. We breed our heifers at 14 months to low birth weight angus bulls and by the time they calve the heifer will weigh around 800 pounds. No way would i ever expect her to have a 100 pound calf. Even our big cows, the grown past heifers who weigh around 1300 average, do i ever want calves over 100. I find the bigger the calf the more they struggle if anything is wrong or the weather goes bad. Our old herd does have whoppers of over 100, but if its a bull calf they sometimes suffer from LUTTCS, low udder too tall calf syndrome...The bigger the calf the likely hood they will be stupid. </p><p>The more i read i wonder if your scales are wrong or maybe we under guess our weights. We dont have small cows. We are surrounded by other ranchers and I believe we have equal or better than average cows. Ever year we have trouble getting our cows into our chutes because they keep getting bigger and bigger and our weaning weights get higher and higher even though we are moving away from Sims and getting more angus. </p><p>If yall are 100 % sure your scales are good, i'd love to come see your cows. We are always wanting to improve our 35 yr old operation and we have made leaps and bounds from the 1970s type cattle we started with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowgirl8, post: 1114461, member: 22072"] Maybe the way yall do cows is different than what we do. Other than hay in the winter, we do not feed our cows. We breed our heifers at 14 months to low birth weight angus bulls and by the time they calve the heifer will weigh around 800 pounds. No way would i ever expect her to have a 100 pound calf. Even our big cows, the grown past heifers who weigh around 1300 average, do i ever want calves over 100. I find the bigger the calf the more they struggle if anything is wrong or the weather goes bad. Our old herd does have whoppers of over 100, but if its a bull calf they sometimes suffer from LUTTCS, low udder too tall calf syndrome...The bigger the calf the likely hood they will be stupid. The more i read i wonder if your scales are wrong or maybe we under guess our weights. We dont have small cows. We are surrounded by other ranchers and I believe we have equal or better than average cows. Ever year we have trouble getting our cows into our chutes because they keep getting bigger and bigger and our weaning weights get higher and higher even though we are moving away from Sims and getting more angus. If yall are 100 % sure your scales are good, i'd love to come see your cows. We are always wanting to improve our 35 yr old operation and we have made leaps and bounds from the 1970s type cattle we started with. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cattle Boards
Breeding / Calving Issues
Birth weights
Top