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<blockquote data-quote="VaCowman" data-source="post: 1614092" data-attributes="member: 33135"><p>Personally, I think it's easy $$. Unless you are selling into a "natural" type program, I highly recommend it. Quite the ROI. That being said, I do not implant any heifers until after the replacements are picked. Any heifer that doesn't make the initial cut to be in the keeper pen gets implanted immediately. I do not think you increase marbling by implanting, but you will increase weight and red meat! We try to implant the steer calves when they are cut (still on mom) and then once again after they are weaned. I was at a meeting one time and there was a vet speaking on implants. He recommended waiting about 2-3 weeks AFTER weaning to reimplant or for the initial implant if they were not implanted on the cow. His reasons were that during the actual weaning process, calves are stressed and generally worry more with checking fences and missing momma than eating. He said you want these things eating good before you implant them, otherwise during the weaning process, the intake and feed efficiency boost from the implant can sometimes be negated. Makes sense to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="VaCowman, post: 1614092, member: 33135"] Personally, I think it's easy $$. Unless you are selling into a "natural" type program, I highly recommend it. Quite the ROI. That being said, I do not implant any heifers until after the replacements are picked. Any heifer that doesn't make the initial cut to be in the keeper pen gets implanted immediately. I do not think you increase marbling by implanting, but you will increase weight and red meat! We try to implant the steer calves when they are cut (still on mom) and then once again after they are weaned. I was at a meeting one time and there was a vet speaking on implants. He recommended waiting about 2-3 weeks AFTER weaning to reimplant or for the initial implant if they were not implanted on the cow. His reasons were that during the actual weaning process, calves are stressed and generally worry more with checking fences and missing momma than eating. He said you want these things eating good before you implant them, otherwise during the weaning process, the intake and feed efficiency boost from the implant can sometimes be negated. Makes sense to me. [/QUOTE]
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