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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1751804" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>I read this when you first posted it and have been cogitating on it since.</p><p></p><p>I had a neighbor with a pretty small cow that had been stunted in its early life. He didn't know why, but the animal produced a healthy calf every year and weaned it at a decent weight so he kept it. I wouldn't be surprised that this heifer of yours would be stunted as well. Seven hundred or so pounds at 16 months old is pretty small where I come from. I'd be curious enough to keep her and see what happens in the future. About the only concerns I would have is making sure she is bred to bulls producing smaller birth weights and watching her for condition as the calf gets closer to weaning. I'd rather have a herd of thousand pound cows weaning five hundred pound calves than have a herd of sixteen hundred pound cows weaning six hundred pound calves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1751804, member: 42463"] I read this when you first posted it and have been cogitating on it since. I had a neighbor with a pretty small cow that had been stunted in its early life. He didn't know why, but the animal produced a healthy calf every year and weaned it at a decent weight so he kept it. I wouldn't be surprised that this heifer of yours would be stunted as well. Seven hundred or so pounds at 16 months old is pretty small where I come from. I'd be curious enough to keep her and see what happens in the future. About the only concerns I would have is making sure she is bred to bulls producing smaller birth weights and watching her for condition as the calf gets closer to weaning. I'd rather have a herd of thousand pound cows weaning five hundred pound calves than have a herd of sixteen hundred pound cows weaning six hundred pound calves. [/QUOTE]
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