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Manipulating AI calves birth weight?
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<blockquote data-quote="talltimber" data-source="post: 1396382" data-attributes="member: 22236"><p>Won't cutting feed on heifers limit the condition on heifers right before a stressful time of needing the most strength and stamina they have required thus far?</p><p>I have talked to an old timer that used to do that. He said he was wrong, and doesnt do it that way anymore. He keeps their heifers gaining, or holding, up to calving. He used to cut them back to keep from calves getting too big, but wound up making heifers weaker. He thought they were quitting him too quick because they got tired faster. His was from a easy calving standpoint mostly, though he did say that he thought the calves were stronger now, not just bigger.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="talltimber, post: 1396382, member: 22236"] Won't cutting feed on heifers limit the condition on heifers right before a stressful time of needing the most strength and stamina they have required thus far? I have talked to an old timer that used to do that. He said he was wrong, and doesnt do it that way anymore. He keeps their heifers gaining, or holding, up to calving. He used to cut them back to keep from calves getting too big, but wound up making heifers weaker. He thought they were quitting him too quick because they got tired faster. His was from a easy calving standpoint mostly, though he did say that he thought the calves were stronger now, not just bigger. [/QUOTE]
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