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<blockquote data-quote="greggy" data-source="post: 1616483" data-attributes="member: 38479"><p>Hi All,</p><p></p><p>For medium frame calves, that are or will be bottle fed, all medium frame for example, what are the growth and approx weight timelines.</p><p></p><p>Target to hit by say 3 months</p><p>Target for 6 months</p><p>Target at yearling</p><p></p><p>And for any laggards, I have some lagging now that are about 4 months or so old, to what age do I have to rectify and lack of good start ?</p><p></p><p>And, seeing most will become cows for production, does it matter really if they are somewhat smaller, or to be precise, does the stunting of a calfs growth that will become a cow pass on something that will make the calf smaller, or will the calf benefit from genes that will allow it to be able to reach any potential and be larger than the cow the calf came from.</p><p></p><p>I am just thinking, if the heifers only reach 75% of potential size, but will still throw a calf with full potential, I may have a mob of cows that just eat less but still produce good calves, this is with an assumption that the 75% in this example does not overly complicate birthing.</p><p></p><p>Ironically, I have 3 young bull calves, all from different farms, all baldy, and all 3 have always been smaller than pen mates or others in the mob, I need to get them going I suppose, not one steer that is a year or so has outperformed the heifers in the group, but one seems to chow down more food ! TBH I was thinking they would be a good % larger, I am starting to think the one in particular may have been sold as Hereford, but be a mini Hereford, he is a touch smaller than a Hereford heifer that is many months younger than him, he also had multiple drenchings when young, the other heifers had nothing at all. None are skinny, but he is more angular, also had large bones when young, looks more normal now,,,</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greggy, post: 1616483, member: 38479"] Hi All, For medium frame calves, that are or will be bottle fed, all medium frame for example, what are the growth and approx weight timelines. Target to hit by say 3 months Target for 6 months Target at yearling And for any laggards, I have some lagging now that are about 4 months or so old, to what age do I have to rectify and lack of good start ? And, seeing most will become cows for production, does it matter really if they are somewhat smaller, or to be precise, does the stunting of a calfs growth that will become a cow pass on something that will make the calf smaller, or will the calf benefit from genes that will allow it to be able to reach any potential and be larger than the cow the calf came from. I am just thinking, if the heifers only reach 75% of potential size, but will still throw a calf with full potential, I may have a mob of cows that just eat less but still produce good calves, this is with an assumption that the 75% in this example does not overly complicate birthing. Ironically, I have 3 young bull calves, all from different farms, all baldy, and all 3 have always been smaller than pen mates or others in the mob, I need to get them going I suppose, not one steer that is a year or so has outperformed the heifers in the group, but one seems to chow down more food ! TBH I was thinking they would be a good % larger, I am starting to think the one in particular may have been sold as Hereford, but be a mini Hereford, he is a touch smaller than a Hereford heifer that is many months younger than him, he also had multiple drenchings when young, the other heifers had nothing at all. None are skinny, but he is more angular, also had large bones when young, looks more normal now,,, [/QUOTE]
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