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<blockquote data-quote="gizmom" data-source="post: 1003659" data-attributes="member: 13402"><p>cow pollinater hit the nail on the head. Get rid of her. The only way to develop a good cow herd is to have a serious culling each year. Set yourself a culling criteria and stick to it. If a cow doesn't breed back after calving within 90 days why on earth would you want to keep her. Besides breeding back, the cow needs to wean a heavy calf, have a beautiful balanced udder, excellent conformation and feet and maintain a decent body condition. Your cows are employees not your friends, if they don't do a good job fire them. In our herd a cow doesn't get flushed until she has proven herself not with one calf but with three or four calves. To make it to the flush pen she has to breed back 70 days after calving and wean her calf in the top 5% of the herd. Her calf then has to perform and be in the top 5% of the herd at yearling. Again it takes several years to identify a cow with these qualities but then when she goes in the flush pen we know that she is worthy of flushing. I know alot of farms that flush cattle based on their genetics after one calf and some actually flush heifers, I am not saying this is wrong it just isn't right for us. No matter what the genetics not all cows are created equal and some cows even the ones with top genetics don't work in the real world.</p><p></p><p>edit to add we made mistakes when we started flushing we flushed heifers and unproven cows and it was a waste of money, so I am speaking from our experiences. Our first flush was 17 years ago so we have learned a bit since then.</p><p></p><p>Gizmom</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gizmom, post: 1003659, member: 13402"] cow pollinater hit the nail on the head. Get rid of her. The only way to develop a good cow herd is to have a serious culling each year. Set yourself a culling criteria and stick to it. If a cow doesn't breed back after calving within 90 days why on earth would you want to keep her. Besides breeding back, the cow needs to wean a heavy calf, have a beautiful balanced udder, excellent conformation and feet and maintain a decent body condition. Your cows are employees not your friends, if they don't do a good job fire them. In our herd a cow doesn't get flushed until she has proven herself not with one calf but with three or four calves. To make it to the flush pen she has to breed back 70 days after calving and wean her calf in the top 5% of the herd. Her calf then has to perform and be in the top 5% of the herd at yearling. Again it takes several years to identify a cow with these qualities but then when she goes in the flush pen we know that she is worthy of flushing. I know alot of farms that flush cattle based on their genetics after one calf and some actually flush heifers, I am not saying this is wrong it just isn't right for us. No matter what the genetics not all cows are created equal and some cows even the ones with top genetics don't work in the real world. edit to add we made mistakes when we started flushing we flushed heifers and unproven cows and it was a waste of money, so I am speaking from our experiences. Our first flush was 17 years ago so we have learned a bit since then. Gizmom [/QUOTE]
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