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Bull and cows too fertile ????????
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<blockquote data-quote="KNERSIE" data-source="post: 631959" data-attributes="member: 4353"><p>How big a % of dystocia do you have? Do you still have heifers that have to calve? I am just curious why you feel you have to do all the night checks?</p><p></p><p>I check heifers first thing in the morning, will drive past the pasture during the day carrying on with other work, check them just before dark and if I think one is imminent I will check just before I go to bed. </p><p></p><p>From the second calf onwards I go out and tag early morning and early evening and drive past the pasture during the day whilst doing other things.</p><p></p><p>I am not saying you shouldn't do all you can to get a live calf, I am just trying to understand the need (or whether its just a nervous and excited hillsdown?) for the checks. If you do indeed need to check (because of high occurrence of dystocia) its better to terminate the hard calving lines early on in a purebred operation rather than to wait and get a name for cattle that can't calve. My late neighbour always used to say that once you have a name for sleeping late you can get up at 2am, but everyone will still call you a late sleeper. (some effect was lost in translation, but since Mr HD can understand Afrikaans..."As jou naam 'Laatslaap' is kan jy maar twee uur ook opstaan, jou naam sal 'Laatslaap' bly"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KNERSIE, post: 631959, member: 4353"] How big a % of dystocia do you have? Do you still have heifers that have to calve? I am just curious why you feel you have to do all the night checks? I check heifers first thing in the morning, will drive past the pasture during the day carrying on with other work, check them just before dark and if I think one is imminent I will check just before I go to bed. From the second calf onwards I go out and tag early morning and early evening and drive past the pasture during the day whilst doing other things. I am not saying you shouldn't do all you can to get a live calf, I am just trying to understand the need (or whether its just a nervous and excited hillsdown?) for the checks. If you do indeed need to check (because of high occurrence of dystocia) its better to terminate the hard calving lines early on in a purebred operation rather than to wait and get a name for cattle that can't calve. My late neighbour always used to say that once you have a name for sleeping late you can get up at 2am, but everyone will still call you a late sleeper. (some effect was lost in translation, but since Mr HD can understand Afrikaans..."As jou naam 'Laatslaap' is kan jy maar twee uur ook opstaan, jou naam sal 'Laatslaap' bly" [/QUOTE]
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