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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 1811740" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>Just caught up on this post. Great progress in increasing that cow family. NICE calves.</p><p></p><p>Cow family is MOST important in my herd. I read an article I copied for my newsletter:</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.drovers.com/news/beef-production/sexten-single-trait-selection-birthdate[/URL]</p><p></p><p>I do NOT believe in keeping only first/early born heifers and when I saw the title of this article, I almost ignored it. Glad I didn't.</p><p>If a dam fails to get bred during my 60 days calving season, or slips her pregancy, I will slide her over to the next 60 days calving season. ONCE. Culling is based on COW performance. I do not base my retained heifers on DATES.</p><p>Maybe in a natural service situation it might be beneficial to only keep early born, but I don't know?? I do not believe in single trait selection for anything.</p><p>As far as I'm concerned, any cow that produces a calf in a 60 day period every year, has proven herself as a "family tree".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 1811740, member: 968"] Just caught up on this post. Great progress in increasing that cow family. NICE calves. Cow family is MOST important in my herd. I read an article I copied for my newsletter: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.drovers.com/news/beef-production/sexten-single-trait-selection-birthdate[/URL] I do NOT believe in keeping only first/early born heifers and when I saw the title of this article, I almost ignored it. Glad I didn't. If a dam fails to get bred during my 60 days calving season, or slips her pregancy, I will slide her over to the next 60 days calving season. ONCE. Culling is based on COW performance. I do not base my retained heifers on DATES. Maybe in a natural service situation it might be beneficial to only keep early born, but I don't know?? I do not believe in single trait selection for anything. As far as I'm concerned, any cow that produces a calf in a 60 day period every year, has proven herself as a "family tree". [/QUOTE]
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