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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 1261353" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>I was wondering.. given two scenarios what you folks would do</p><p></p><p>Scenario 1</p><p>You have a heifer that bred late, you saw the bull with her in the spring, then nothing for 4 months, then again the bull was with her.. perhaps she miscarried? who knows what happened.. She raised the calf really well though, and is 7 weeks earlier the next year.. Lets assume she keeps doing well and catches up.. Her full sister and her mother are 'ideal' cows and come from a line of long-lived cows.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Scenario 2</p><p>You have a 5 year old cow, raises nice heifers, you've kept 2 of them as replacements, the first one has had a calf and is doing well, the second is a yearling,... but the cow comes up open in the fall.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Now many of you will say you'll cull the heifer in scenario 1, and certainly not keep any replacements, but what about scenario 2? I bet no one would get rid of the heifers they kept already.. The truth is we all keep replacements before we know how the cow really is... but if something surfaces, we aren't getting rid of the whole line.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 1261353, member: 9096"] I was wondering.. given two scenarios what you folks would do Scenario 1 You have a heifer that bred late, you saw the bull with her in the spring, then nothing for 4 months, then again the bull was with her.. perhaps she miscarried? who knows what happened.. She raised the calf really well though, and is 7 weeks earlier the next year.. Lets assume she keeps doing well and catches up.. Her full sister and her mother are 'ideal' cows and come from a line of long-lived cows. Scenario 2 You have a 5 year old cow, raises nice heifers, you've kept 2 of them as replacements, the first one has had a calf and is doing well, the second is a yearling,... but the cow comes up open in the fall. Now many of you will say you'll cull the heifer in scenario 1, and certainly not keep any replacements, but what about scenario 2? I bet no one would get rid of the heifers they kept already.. The truth is we all keep replacements before we know how the cow really is... but if something surfaces, we aren't getting rid of the whole line. [/QUOTE]
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