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<blockquote data-quote="randiliana" data-source="post: 695406" data-attributes="member: 2308"><p>We sold our dry yearlings today. Brought them home Mon. and weighed them, and had the vet out on Tues. to pregcheck. Also brought home 4 pairs and weighed both the cows and calves.</p><p></p><p>Heifers averaged 971 lbs and 2.24 lbs/day on crested wheat pasture. So, we are pretty happy with that. They are all March/Apr born heifers. Lightest heifer was 840 and the heaviest was 1119.</p><p></p><p>Had 6 dry's, 4 of which were ones we bought this spring. So not too happy with that. Out of 9 700-800 lb heifers that we bought this spring 4 were dry. But we averaged $100/head over what we paid for them. Don't think that quite paid the pasture bill on them, but could have been a lot worse. I don't think we will be doing it again though. Average weight on the 7 heifers we sold was 902 at $.86. One smaller one sure pulled the average down.</p><p></p><p>Interestingly, the 4 cows we weighed were 1406, 1444, 1445, and 1446. Their calves were 438, 548, 563, and 595 respectively. The Milk cow was 1545 and has 3 calves on her weighing 380, 425 and 473 for a total of 1278. All the calves have another 4-6 weeks left before we wean. The cows were somewhat heavier than what we expected, but, there was no science that went into choosing these 4, they were just the first 4 pair that we sorted off. We've only culled 2 cows in the last 9 years that were over the 1400 lb mark!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="randiliana, post: 695406, member: 2308"] We sold our dry yearlings today. Brought them home Mon. and weighed them, and had the vet out on Tues. to pregcheck. Also brought home 4 pairs and weighed both the cows and calves. Heifers averaged 971 lbs and 2.24 lbs/day on crested wheat pasture. So, we are pretty happy with that. They are all March/Apr born heifers. Lightest heifer was 840 and the heaviest was 1119. Had 6 dry's, 4 of which were ones we bought this spring. So not too happy with that. Out of 9 700-800 lb heifers that we bought this spring 4 were dry. But we averaged $100/head over what we paid for them. Don't think that quite paid the pasture bill on them, but could have been a lot worse. I don't think we will be doing it again though. Average weight on the 7 heifers we sold was 902 at $.86. One smaller one sure pulled the average down. Interestingly, the 4 cows we weighed were 1406, 1444, 1445, and 1446. Their calves were 438, 548, 563, and 595 respectively. The Milk cow was 1545 and has 3 calves on her weighing 380, 425 and 473 for a total of 1278. All the calves have another 4-6 weeks left before we wean. The cows were somewhat heavier than what we expected, but, there was no science that went into choosing these 4, they were just the first 4 pair that we sorted off. We've only culled 2 cows in the last 9 years that were over the 1400 lb mark! [/QUOTE]
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