mtnman":3oxhkhws said:Thats what I thought Jake, they are breeding one the 2nd heat at about 45 days, not on the first.
mtnman
dun":y53jnz86 said:We did move one bunch up yyears ago, but these girls don;t need to be moved up. That's exactly the problem. They're disruptive as .... right now. Just seemed strange that so many of them would start cycling this early. I may have good forage, but I sure don;t have that good of forage. It's just that old cow killer high endophyte fescue mixed with clover and OG. Certainly nothing special, it's the same composition as all, or at least almost all of the other pastures. I've been rotating 20 some head plus calves through 2 6 acre paddocks. Just seems strange. Maybe the next time the vet swings by to BS I'll ask him what he thinks is going on.
dun
Yacked with the vet yesterday, He thinks the early heat ting has to do with fertility of the cows and good nutrition. When I commented that we're not doing anything any different then previous years he commented that, "well, it's a different year".
I'm wondering if because of the growth patterns of the grass this year because of the milkd winter and the cooler then normal spring, maybe the grass is growing slower so we're not having the flush of rapidly growing low nutrition grass that we usually have now. Sort of makes sense to me that if they spend x amount of time grazing and they're ingesting more solid forage and less moisture that it would improve the nutritional value ofthe grass.
Any thoughts on that?
dun