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Manipulating AI calves birth weight?
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<blockquote data-quote="City Guy" data-source="post: 1396546" data-attributes="member: 25547"><p>Another ignorant city guy observation. I hadn't even thought of nutritional manipulation as a means of promoting calving ease. Sounds like a bad idea IMO. Seems to me that other means besides smaller birth weights and shorter gestation could be used to help this situation. How about measuring pelvic areas? I know of one breeder who claims to measure calves head diameters and selects replacements with smaller heads!?</p><p>Sounds extreme but...? How about just selecting calves from cows that "naturally" calve easily, regardless of calf size (within reason)?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="City Guy, post: 1396546, member: 25547"] Another ignorant city guy observation. I hadn't even thought of nutritional manipulation as a means of promoting calving ease. Sounds like a bad idea IMO. Seems to me that other means besides smaller birth weights and shorter gestation could be used to help this situation. How about measuring pelvic areas? I know of one breeder who claims to measure calves head diameters and selects replacements with smaller heads!? Sounds extreme but...? How about just selecting calves from cows that "naturally" calve easily, regardless of calf size (within reason)? [/QUOTE]
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