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<blockquote data-quote="stocky" data-source="post: 94685" data-attributes="member: 1150"><p>Farmhand, I forgot to answer your heifers vs cows question. First and foremost my goal is to get a live calf and healthy heifer after freshening. I would never use anything except an angus or a longhorn on heifers. With the angus, you get a much higher selling calf at weaning but it is still small enough that the heifer will usually not have problems. The problems with the angus would come in if you got one of these new, modern type angus that have much bigger calves. With the longhorn you always get a small and vigorous calf that will be up and sucking in 20 minutes or less. The only disadvantage of a longhorn is the price when you sell it and right now the 400 lb roper market is hot so that takes away alot of the disadvantage. I dont freshen out as many heifers as I once did, but I had good success with breeding the heifers young to a longhorn bull and freshen them out at 20-21 months and leave the calf on for 5 months and then let the heifers have extra time to grow---I got this idea from a study that I had read somewhere and it really worked well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stocky, post: 94685, member: 1150"] Farmhand, I forgot to answer your heifers vs cows question. First and foremost my goal is to get a live calf and healthy heifer after freshening. I would never use anything except an angus or a longhorn on heifers. With the angus, you get a much higher selling calf at weaning but it is still small enough that the heifer will usually not have problems. The problems with the angus would come in if you got one of these new, modern type angus that have much bigger calves. With the longhorn you always get a small and vigorous calf that will be up and sucking in 20 minutes or less. The only disadvantage of a longhorn is the price when you sell it and right now the 400 lb roper market is hot so that takes away alot of the disadvantage. I dont freshen out as many heifers as I once did, but I had good success with breeding the heifers young to a longhorn bull and freshen them out at 20-21 months and leave the calf on for 5 months and then let the heifers have extra time to grow---I got this idea from a study that I had read somewhere and it really worked well. [/QUOTE]
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