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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1225944" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Ferd touched on something.</p><p>With most of our Bos taurus breeds, pelvic bones 'fuse' at around 27 months of age. </p><p>If you can get those heifers bred, and calved out before those 'sutures'/growth plates fuse, there is...potentially...a little more 'wiggle room' for a calf to be delivered...</p><p></p><p>Except for last spring, when we were participating in a progeny-test breeding trial, and HAD to collect birth weights as part of the deal...I've never weighed one of my own live calves. Big, dead ones, yeah... all I care about is that they get here alive, I really don't care what they weigh, and I can no more look at a newborn calf and guess its weight within 20 lbs than the man in the moon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1225944, member: 12607"] Ferd touched on something. With most of our Bos taurus breeds, pelvic bones 'fuse' at around 27 months of age. If you can get those heifers bred, and calved out before those 'sutures'/growth plates fuse, there is...potentially...a little more 'wiggle room' for a calf to be delivered... Except for last spring, when we were participating in a progeny-test breeding trial, and HAD to collect birth weights as part of the deal...I've never weighed one of my own live calves. Big, dead ones, yeah... all I care about is that they get here alive, I really don't care what they weigh, and I can no more look at a newborn calf and guess its weight within 20 lbs than the man in the moon. [/QUOTE]
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