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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1817514" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Our cows average 1050-1200 lbs... so about 11-1150 overall. We routinely have 80 lb calves from them and they do not get checked but once a day... the heifers we do use a CE bull on and I do not especially look at the whole line up of CEM and all that. I want to see what the bull calf weighed at birth, what rating they give him... and then the heifers should be able to spit out a 70 lb calf with no problem. </p><p>KNOCK ON WOOD.... we have pulled 3 calves in the last 8-10 years... one from a heifer that had a foot back and the calf was dead, one from a cow, back feet first and the calf was fine but I wanted it out of there as fast as possible... and one from a heifer that just didn't put any effort into it and she did not stay after that calf got weaned... We use calving ease bulls on the heifers and the 2 bulls we used for 8+ years, both threw calves in the 60 +/- lb range... the heifers spit them out... they got up and went to nursing and that was that. I don't keep many heifers out of first calf heifers... MOSTLY because I want to keep heifers out of cows with some longevity... but I will keep a first calf heifer's, heifer calf, if she is out of a good line of PROVEN long time, productive, sticking around cows.... </p><p>Our cows wean an average of 5 wt steers and 425-450 wt heifers... on pasture, with some hay, and not much else. We use grain to teach them to come into the pens... as treats so to speak...maybe a 5 gal bucket once a week per 10-15 cows.... and the grandma cows and first calf heifers that happen to calve in the fall will get some silage to help them keep up their body weight and make milk..... but we try to not calve heifers in the fall.... </p><p>We buy and sell some cows so have some calving not when we especially want them but when you can buy a few right, we do... and deal with the calving... We do not breed any of ours to calve in the winter... March is about the earliest I want to deal with babies in the crappy wet weather... try to calve in 2 groups, spring and fall, but the bought cows will shake that up a bit...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1817514, member: 25884"] Our cows average 1050-1200 lbs... so about 11-1150 overall. We routinely have 80 lb calves from them and they do not get checked but once a day... the heifers we do use a CE bull on and I do not especially look at the whole line up of CEM and all that. I want to see what the bull calf weighed at birth, what rating they give him... and then the heifers should be able to spit out a 70 lb calf with no problem. KNOCK ON WOOD.... we have pulled 3 calves in the last 8-10 years... one from a heifer that had a foot back and the calf was dead, one from a cow, back feet first and the calf was fine but I wanted it out of there as fast as possible... and one from a heifer that just didn't put any effort into it and she did not stay after that calf got weaned... We use calving ease bulls on the heifers and the 2 bulls we used for 8+ years, both threw calves in the 60 +/- lb range... the heifers spit them out... they got up and went to nursing and that was that. I don't keep many heifers out of first calf heifers... MOSTLY because I want to keep heifers out of cows with some longevity... but I will keep a first calf heifer's, heifer calf, if she is out of a good line of PROVEN long time, productive, sticking around cows.... Our cows wean an average of 5 wt steers and 425-450 wt heifers... on pasture, with some hay, and not much else. We use grain to teach them to come into the pens... as treats so to speak...maybe a 5 gal bucket once a week per 10-15 cows.... and the grandma cows and first calf heifers that happen to calve in the fall will get some silage to help them keep up their body weight and make milk..... but we try to not calve heifers in the fall.... We buy and sell some cows so have some calving not when we especially want them but when you can buy a few right, we do... and deal with the calving... We do not breed any of ours to calve in the winter... March is about the earliest I want to deal with babies in the crappy wet weather... try to calve in 2 groups, spring and fall, but the bought cows will shake that up a bit... [/QUOTE]
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