mnlovell
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What does easy fleshing mean?
mdmdogs3":1uumj9zg said:now I know what my problem is ... easy fleshing :lol:
with your brahman cattle a little extra condition is just the ticket for them. were as it would be right the opposite on say a hereford. but there are cow that stay around a BCS of 4 year round and breed back on time. and raise a great calfnovatech":w1n95fti said:I understand what you are saying and this year my cow are getting absolutly nasty fat. I have never had a problem with them settling. Just the opposite is true with mine. I have a much higher sucess rate with the fat ones than the just good condition ones. I don't have a clue why. Maybe luck.
I don;t know yet if that's going to be a settling problem. I've AIed a K model and a M model and both of them were hard to manipulate the cervix because of the interior fat.
pbnewbie":1tdnilxn said:Dun, what kind of cattle do you have?
KNERSIE":g1s5jogc said:I don;t know yet if that's going to be a settling problem. I've AIed a K model and a M model and both of them were hard to manipulate the cervix because of the interior fat.
I've had a heifer that got too fat last year and she took two attempts at AI before she settled, another cow that was even fatter settled on the first service, but to try and manipulate the cervix was almost impossible and at best it was a guess where I deposited the semen.
That was extraordinary conditions for my area as we received almost twice our annual rainfall in AUg and Sept. Under normal circumstances I'd rather take a herd full that might get a little too fat when conditions are good as they will need that extra condition sooner rather than later.
dun":14lmuwyr said:There is one possible downside to the easy fleshing deal. We've always selected for cows that raise a good calf and still maqintain condition on strictly pasture, frequently very marginal pasture. In years that the pasture is better then marginal, some of the cows are tending towards internal fat. I don;t know yet if that's going to be a settling problem. I've AIed a K model and a M model and both of them were hard to manipulate the cervix because of the interior fat.
dun