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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1812182" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>I've always been more suspicious of retaining heifers if they were by a low birth weight/easy calving bull than if they were dropped by a heifer.</p><p></p><p>The reason I wouldn't keep replacements from heifers is because I wanted replacements from cows with a history. If a cow is ten and has never needed assistance and has always raised a 600 pound calf... that's the cow I kept replacements from. And I wouldn't breed her to an easy calving/low birth weight bull to generate replacements. I expected replacements to be 90ish pounds at birth, within ten pounds, and better at the high end than the low end.</p><p></p><p>But the replacements I kept/sold were always bred to low birth weight/easy calving...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1812182, member: 42463"] I've always been more suspicious of retaining heifers if they were by a low birth weight/easy calving bull than if they were dropped by a heifer. The reason I wouldn't keep replacements from heifers is because I wanted replacements from cows with a history. If a cow is ten and has never needed assistance and has always raised a 600 pound calf... that's the cow I kept replacements from. And I wouldn't breed her to an easy calving/low birth weight bull to generate replacements. I expected replacements to be 90ish pounds at birth, within ten pounds, and better at the high end than the low end. But the replacements I kept/sold were always bred to low birth weight/easy calving... [/QUOTE]
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