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Breeding / Calving Issues
Does anyone wait past 15 months to breed heifers?
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<blockquote data-quote="cfpinz" data-source="post: 608834" data-attributes="member: 2383"><p>We calve ours at 2 yo. I had a group of spring calvers that I've just been letting work their way back in time with the fall calvers. If I choose to keep a heifer out of one of those cows and it's a bit younger/smaller than the fall calves, I'll hold her back and calve her at 2 1/2 or so. </p><p></p><p>Wife's father doesn't breed his til 2 years old. His heifers look gorgeous when they calve, but they're pig fat and he winds up pulling a lot more calves per capita than we do (on a normal year).</p><p></p><p>In my opinion, if a heifer can't calve at 24mo and fall right in with the rest of the cows from then on out, she can hit the road.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cfpinz, post: 608834, member: 2383"] We calve ours at 2 yo. I had a group of spring calvers that I've just been letting work their way back in time with the fall calvers. If I choose to keep a heifer out of one of those cows and it's a bit younger/smaller than the fall calves, I'll hold her back and calve her at 2 1/2 or so. Wife's father doesn't breed his til 2 years old. His heifers look gorgeous when they calve, but they're pig fat and he winds up pulling a lot more calves per capita than we do (on a normal year). In my opinion, if a heifer can't calve at 24mo and fall right in with the rest of the cows from then on out, she can hit the road. [/QUOTE]
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