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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1468990" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>If the cows are old/no teeth/ or have any problems like feet or legs they will go in a pasture to be sold as soon as we see an uptick in the price. If they are young, or good cows that failed to breed, they might get a one time pass to go with the next calving group. We calve spring and fall. So they will lose 6 months. No I don't want them to be with the bull for an extra month and see if they catch because then they are out of sync with the rest. I don't have time to be watching for calves when we are in the hayfield, and I certainly don't want winter calves like late dec or jan or early feb. Our weather can be too chancey. We have had nice weather in dec and snow in dec. Jan is almost always cold and some snow and early feb has too many temp/precip swings. If they can't get bred on time, there needs to be a good reason, or they go. And if they do it once, and get a second chance, and it happens again, they are gone. The only exception to that is a couple of real good old cows that produced a lot of calves for us, they were given 18 months between calves the last 2-3 times. This gave them a chance to have a little break in between. It was deliberate because we didn't want to sell them yet. So after 10 or 12 calves, there were 2 old cows that got to stay around for 3 more calves, spaced 18 months apart, so they got an extra 6 months. Both finally came up open and went after that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1468990, member: 25884"] If the cows are old/no teeth/ or have any problems like feet or legs they will go in a pasture to be sold as soon as we see an uptick in the price. If they are young, or good cows that failed to breed, they might get a one time pass to go with the next calving group. We calve spring and fall. So they will lose 6 months. No I don't want them to be with the bull for an extra month and see if they catch because then they are out of sync with the rest. I don't have time to be watching for calves when we are in the hayfield, and I certainly don't want winter calves like late dec or jan or early feb. Our weather can be too chancey. We have had nice weather in dec and snow in dec. Jan is almost always cold and some snow and early feb has too many temp/precip swings. If they can't get bred on time, there needs to be a good reason, or they go. And if they do it once, and get a second chance, and it happens again, they are gone. The only exception to that is a couple of real good old cows that produced a lot of calves for us, they were given 18 months between calves the last 2-3 times. This gave them a chance to have a little break in between. It was deliberate because we didn't want to sell them yet. So after 10 or 12 calves, there were 2 old cows that got to stay around for 3 more calves, spaced 18 months apart, so they got an extra 6 months. Both finally came up open and went after that. [/QUOTE]
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