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<blockquote data-quote="cypressfarms" data-source="post: 485903" data-attributes="member: 2653"><p>Angie, Don't take this the wrong way - your thinking about it from the wrong point of view. If you have a heifer that has just given birth (god forbid if you had to pull it or it was a hard labor) to then pour the feed to her is poor cattle management. If your going to have heifers at least bring them into calving with a good BCS so even if they do lose a little, they can still rebreed. As Deno said, a young heifer is still growing herself - asking her to do that and feed a calf is a lot. She will naturally give everything she's got to the new calf to her physical detriment - possibly not cycling soon. This is why you see some cattlemen wait to breed their heifers until around 15 months (although they may cycle sooner), and also why heifers with their first calves get the nicest pastures (ryegrass down here)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cypressfarms, post: 485903, member: 2653"] Angie, Don't take this the wrong way - your thinking about it from the wrong point of view. If you have a heifer that has just given birth (god forbid if you had to pull it or it was a hard labor) to then pour the feed to her is poor cattle management. If your going to have heifers at least bring them into calving with a good BCS so even if they do lose a little, they can still rebreed. As Deno said, a young heifer is still growing herself - asking her to do that and feed a calf is a lot. She will naturally give everything she's got to the new calf to her physical detriment - possibly not cycling soon. This is why you see some cattlemen wait to breed their heifers until around 15 months (although they may cycle sooner), and also why heifers with their first calves get the nicest pastures (ryegrass down here) [/QUOTE]
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