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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 14139"><p>Since I was the one that AI'd her, I know that she is due on April 25, and is five days overdue, but I guess that is not uncommon. Have seen a discharge off and on over the course of the last week or so. She is making bag, but not totally filled out, though her teats are pretty engorged looking. This heifer hasn't missed a meal since she figured out what I really did on this place.... LOL... I bumped her this morning and felt the calf kick back, so that was sort of a relief.... I didn't understand body score until after the vet told me the heifers were over-conditioned. I ASSUMED (you know what that means....) that as long as I could see the tail head, I was okay... the vet about choked when I told him that. He recovered and told me that if I had kept feeding until the tail head disappeared, the heifer would have been too fat to even eat! I won't claim proficiency on body score, but I do have a better idea of what it looks like than I did two months ago, that is for sure! Look at the first article on the home page... how is one to decipher that thing? I use a computer, but computer talk is like greek to me when I try to follow it... the same with nutrition of a cow. I can spell every word, I can even define most of them, but making sense of the words together, just is not computing in my brain. The reason I do not use the loose mineral is because of the mighty winds that blow through here... most of it would end up down the acreage someplace. Catch you later... Omak</p><p></p><p> <a href="mailto:Sailor_One@hotmail.com">Sailor_One@hotmail.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 14139"] Since I was the one that AI'd her, I know that she is due on April 25, and is five days overdue, but I guess that is not uncommon. Have seen a discharge off and on over the course of the last week or so. She is making bag, but not totally filled out, though her teats are pretty engorged looking. This heifer hasn't missed a meal since she figured out what I really did on this place.... LOL... I bumped her this morning and felt the calf kick back, so that was sort of a relief.... I didn't understand body score until after the vet told me the heifers were over-conditioned. I ASSUMED (you know what that means....) that as long as I could see the tail head, I was okay... the vet about choked when I told him that. He recovered and told me that if I had kept feeding until the tail head disappeared, the heifer would have been too fat to even eat! I won't claim proficiency on body score, but I do have a better idea of what it looks like than I did two months ago, that is for sure! Look at the first article on the home page... how is one to decipher that thing? I use a computer, but computer talk is like greek to me when I try to follow it... the same with nutrition of a cow. I can spell every word, I can even define most of them, but making sense of the words together, just is not computing in my brain. The reason I do not use the loose mineral is because of the mighty winds that blow through here... most of it would end up down the acreage someplace. Catch you later... Omak [email=Sailor_One@hotmail.com]Sailor_One@hotmail.com[/email] [/QUOTE]
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