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<blockquote data-quote="bird dog" data-source="post: 1649665" data-attributes="member: 5381"><p>There are different kinds of abortions. Early, mid-term and late. These are my observations With most early ones, you never even know it and the cow rebreeds and has a late calf. Mother nature sometimes senses something is wrong and elects to start over. Some cows just won't hold a pregnancy. I have had a couple heifers like this.</p><p></p><p>Mid-Term much the same except the cow will be open. Frustrating because you have tested the cow and she was shown to be bred. Some of these will still show bred if a pregnancy blood test was done shortly after they abort. A good technician can sometimes recognize this and ask for a retest to make sure. The guy that does mine marks these as "suspicious". He has saved me a bundle over the years.</p><p>If you have more than a couple of these, somethings wrong and some cows need to be tested by a vet. Trich is a possibility.</p><p></p><p>Late term seems to happen with older cows. As somebody wiser than I said on this board, "The cow is telling you she is done".</p><p>For me any older cow that has a late term abortion is gonna be culled asap. I kept a few in my early years and regretted it every time. </p><p></p><p>There is not much reason to keep any cow that you see abort or notice she has calved when she shouldn't have. For commercial cows you can add a couple hundred bucks to the money you get from the packers and buy you one a couple years younger that is bred to calve with the rest or if its late term, buy a pair.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bird dog, post: 1649665, member: 5381"] There are different kinds of abortions. Early, mid-term and late. These are my observations With most early ones, you never even know it and the cow rebreeds and has a late calf. Mother nature sometimes senses something is wrong and elects to start over. Some cows just won't hold a pregnancy. I have had a couple heifers like this. Mid-Term much the same except the cow will be open. Frustrating because you have tested the cow and she was shown to be bred. Some of these will still show bred if a pregnancy blood test was done shortly after they abort. A good technician can sometimes recognize this and ask for a retest to make sure. The guy that does mine marks these as "suspicious". He has saved me a bundle over the years. If you have more than a couple of these, somethings wrong and some cows need to be tested by a vet. Trich is a possibility. Late term seems to happen with older cows. As somebody wiser than I said on this board, "The cow is telling you she is done". For me any older cow that has a late term abortion is gonna be culled asap. I kept a few in my early years and regretted it every time. There is not much reason to keep any cow that you see abort or notice she has calved when she shouldn't have. For commercial cows you can add a couple hundred bucks to the money you get from the packers and buy you one a couple years younger that is bred to calve with the rest or if its late term, buy a pair. [/QUOTE]
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