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Why would you put an embryo in a 1st calf heifer? You should use a cow that has at least had one calf to implant embryos in.
 
Lets say the heifer did not turn out to be quality enough to be anything other than a recip. Gentics are there but individual performance was lacking. Knowing the gentics of the animal (milk epd) gives SOME indication of the quality of calve she may raise. And then again it may be as big a flop as any.
 
Thanks, just been trying to figure some things out, such as what bull I'd like to breed my heifer too, or how I want to do it.
 
I am not a fan of putting embryos into heifers for the simple fact you don't know how they will milk
 
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Nor am I. We kept aside some cows to be recips last fall, really regretting it now, kinda messed up the herd. With the stipulations in the contract for the calves, they have to weigh __ by such and such a date. I would never make a first calf heifer a recip. shutskytj has a point, you never know how those first calf heifers are going to milk, so if you have them as recips you'll have to pour the feed to them (even if that works) and to the calves for the calves to make weight. It's pretty costy to have your embryos placed in cattle, it's better to bet on a more sure thing (older cows). Enough of my sermon. :shock:
 

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