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<blockquote data-quote="Randi" data-source="post: 1319573" data-attributes="member: 24883"><p>We have a designated calving season. Bulls go in June 1 and are pulled July 20 or thereabouts. Several reasons for this...</p><p>1. We get WINTER, calving when it is -30 is really not that much fun, and we can get that in March, but at least in March you're not expecting 3 or 4 months of it.</p><p>2. Big calves at weaning time.</p><p>3. We pasture almost all of our cattle away from home. Cows are between 1/2 and 2 hours away. Cows go to pasture in Late April or early May. I'm not much on sending heavily pregnant animals away from home. </p><p>4. Fertility.... If a cow can't get bred in our 60 day window (and it's my experience that late calving cows tend to stay late calving cows.) Then we really don't need to keep her around. Once we're done calving season, we don't have to watch them nearly as close.</p><p>5. In our country, not many people are interested in buying those June - Oct calving cows. Chances are she's not going to bring much more than slaughter price anyways. Plus, by pulling bulls in Mid July we can preg check by mid Sept and sell open cows and heifers before the market drops off too much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randi, post: 1319573, member: 24883"] We have a designated calving season. Bulls go in June 1 and are pulled July 20 or thereabouts. Several reasons for this... 1. We get WINTER, calving when it is -30 is really not that much fun, and we can get that in March, but at least in March you're not expecting 3 or 4 months of it. 2. Big calves at weaning time. 3. We pasture almost all of our cattle away from home. Cows are between 1/2 and 2 hours away. Cows go to pasture in Late April or early May. I'm not much on sending heavily pregnant animals away from home. 4. Fertility.... If a cow can't get bred in our 60 day window (and it's my experience that late calving cows tend to stay late calving cows.) Then we really don't need to keep her around. Once we're done calving season, we don't have to watch them nearly as close. 5. In our country, not many people are interested in buying those June - Oct calving cows. Chances are she's not going to bring much more than slaughter price anyways. Plus, by pulling bulls in Mid July we can preg check by mid Sept and sell open cows and heifers before the market drops off too much. [/QUOTE]
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