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<blockquote data-quote="novatech" data-source="post: 704281" data-attributes="member: 5494"><p>Sexual maturity is one thing. But you need physical maturity to go along with it. I would like a heifer to calf as young as possible. Possible means I'm not going to be pulling calves in the middle of a stormy night. I only push early breeding on heifers capable of delivering on their own.</p><p>In my mind (which may be slightly twisted) you need a heifer to have early sexual and physical maturity. But that is usually the terminals which are not going to be the same as cows you would want to keep as that may lead to frame creep. This is assuming you want to end up with a 1200 lb. cow that raises a calf half her own weight.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="novatech, post: 704281, member: 5494"] Sexual maturity is one thing. But you need physical maturity to go along with it. I would like a heifer to calf as young as possible. Possible means I'm not going to be pulling calves in the middle of a stormy night. I only push early breeding on heifers capable of delivering on their own. In my mind (which may be slightly twisted) you need a heifer to have early sexual and physical maturity. But that is usually the terminals which are not going to be the same as cows you would want to keep as that may lead to frame creep. This is assuming you want to end up with a 1200 lb. cow that raises a calf half her own weight. [/QUOTE]
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