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Heifers calving at 3 instead of 2
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<blockquote data-quote="Aaron" data-source="post: 212336" data-attributes="member: 1682"><p>I'll agree with the fact that the cows are healthier. Never have the post-calving recovery period that 2 year olds have. 3 year olds just move to the beat of everyone else. I wouldn't say they live longer, but they do seem to be a healthier and more youthful cow when they do leave. Always a certain percentage of our 2 year olds miss a year after their first calf (because of our managment philosophy and feeding regime). And I always find that most cows that calve a two, will at some point miss a year. If they are young, we usually keep them as 95% of the time they will continue with normal productive lives after that one year. The 3 year old's don't do that on us. So in our point of view, we can predict the number of open 2 year olds to calves at 3, and plan better for them, over the various aged cows that will at some point, skip a year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aaron, post: 212336, member: 1682"] I'll agree with the fact that the cows are healthier. Never have the post-calving recovery period that 2 year olds have. 3 year olds just move to the beat of everyone else. I wouldn't say they live longer, but they do seem to be a healthier and more youthful cow when they do leave. Always a certain percentage of our 2 year olds miss a year after their first calf (because of our managment philosophy and feeding regime). And I always find that most cows that calve a two, will at some point miss a year. If they are young, we usually keep them as 95% of the time they will continue with normal productive lives after that one year. The 3 year old's don't do that on us. So in our point of view, we can predict the number of open 2 year olds to calves at 3, and plan better for them, over the various aged cows that will at some point, skip a year. [/QUOTE]
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