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<blockquote data-quote="cowgirl8" data-source="post: 1114508" data-attributes="member: 22072"><p>Our cows graduate to bulls. First bull is a young low birth weight angus bull.. Second year they go to another average bull...By they time they get to the old pasture, 8 and up, we put big bulls on them, usually a sim cross. Never have to pull a calf out there and yes, they wean bigger calves. But, the first couple years a cow isnt going to give enough milk for a big calf. Put a 100 pound calf on a angus heifer and she's not going to raise the same calf that 10 yr old seasoned cow is. That same heifer produces a 50 pound calf, she'll milk it just fine and the end product about the same. Lose a couple calves to birthing death, you'll have to have a lot of big calves to make up that price lost which you wont out of a heifer. But have them all survive and grow well, there is no need to strive for the biggest calf for that first calf.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowgirl8, post: 1114508, member: 22072"] Our cows graduate to bulls. First bull is a young low birth weight angus bull.. Second year they go to another average bull...By they time they get to the old pasture, 8 and up, we put big bulls on them, usually a sim cross. Never have to pull a calf out there and yes, they wean bigger calves. But, the first couple years a cow isnt going to give enough milk for a big calf. Put a 100 pound calf on a angus heifer and she's not going to raise the same calf that 10 yr old seasoned cow is. That same heifer produces a 50 pound calf, she'll milk it just fine and the end product about the same. Lose a couple calves to birthing death, you'll have to have a lot of big calves to make up that price lost which you wont out of a heifer. But have them all survive and grow well, there is no need to strive for the biggest calf for that first calf. [/QUOTE]
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