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Snapped some updated pics this morning. And yes, I have every intention of retaining Peck, Piper's 2nd heifer. Piper was bred the 2nd week I turned out the bulls; continuing to breed back "on schedule".

Piper, maintaining condition, nice and slick.
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Pepper, currently 17 months.
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Peck, currently 5 months (Pepper & Peck were both born on 3/7).
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Pepper and Peck look GREAT.
I would never even think about rejecting a heifer calf out of a heifer - just for that reason. Your heifers should represent your best genetics. I don't breed to throw-away bulls. With the genetics available in a walking bull or frozen, you should have plenty of options to breed your heifers...for calving at 24 months old and not have a dink calf.
The article points out many reasons a female might not calve first cycle.
For me, any female that calves in a breeding season, year after year is a keeper along with her offspring.
 
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ClinchValley86 said:
Your bull names really speak to my heart. 😆
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I don't think you were on CT when I had Dick, Rod, Peter, MoLester, Bob The Viagra Guy (and then there was Not Bob, not to be confused with Bob) . . . Oh, and Stud Muffin broke his, um, "muffin". They have ONE job! Might as well have fun with it.
 
Jeanne - Simme Valley said:
Great!! love the names.
So you use Red tags for girls (me too!) What is the K on top?
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Those tags are orange. Each year the calves from the first calf heifers get a new color and I rotate until I run out and start all over again. The K on the tag is from the matriarch of this lineage. She was one of our original cows, #5. Our first heifers from those cows were #1-A, #2-A, etc. Piper was #5-K because she was the 11th calf out of old #5 Girl. Pepper is #105 because she was Piper's 1st calf, Peck was #205 and Pickles is #305 but the K is always there. Total cluster eff but between the tag colors and numbers, I know exactly the lineage, including great-grand dams for some of them.
 
Yup - I have a "number" that represents the cow family. I have #3 goes back to a cow Hudson Pines leased from me and flushed her for a year (every 60 days) - I got half the embryos for the lease. She averaged 19 viable embryos. Half my herd is #3. I have a few #9 - that number goes back to my first year breeding Simmentals. All of mine have the year letter after the number and the letter (or letters) helping me ID the dam.
Like TD3M is born in 2024 out of 3TD. I have to get pretty creative with the 3 cow family! But, like you - cow family if most important.
 

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