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<blockquote data-quote="milkmaid" data-source="post: 338309" data-attributes="member: 852"><p>Ditto. Not sure about y'all, but any calf, even a dairy calf, that can't gain over 1.5lbs/day has some serious problems. 1.1 and 1.2lb ADG is too low - they should have been culled just for that.</p><p></p><p>Ann- different cows milk differently. All cows have some degree of fat in their udder and some degree of excess tissue that makes an udder, look like an udder. You can have a whole herd of heifers raised on the same feed ration and some will produce 30lbs/day for their lactation, and others go over 100lbs/day. Just genetics. If starving a heifer so she didn't get any amount of fat in her udder would guarantee a top producer, then all dairy cows would be raised with a 1lb ADG and take 3 1/2 years to get to their first calf.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milkmaid, post: 338309, member: 852"] Ditto. Not sure about y'all, but any calf, even a dairy calf, that can't gain over 1.5lbs/day has some serious problems. 1.1 and 1.2lb ADG is too low - they should have been culled just for that. Ann- different cows milk differently. All cows have some degree of fat in their udder and some degree of excess tissue that makes an udder, look like an udder. You can have a whole herd of heifers raised on the same feed ration and some will produce 30lbs/day for their lactation, and others go over 100lbs/day. Just genetics. If starving a heifer so she didn't get any amount of fat in her udder would guarantee a top producer, then all dairy cows would be raised with a 1lb ADG and take 3 1/2 years to get to their first calf. [/QUOTE]
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