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<blockquote data-quote="milkmaid" data-source="post: 544582" data-attributes="member: 852"><p>Daisy-- with beef cows you talk about "calves", based on the assumption that a cow has a calf every year; ie that's a 1st calf heifer, 2nd calver, 3rd calver, etc. Dairy cows don't always calve every year; some go up to 2 years or more between calves. So we talk about "lactations". A new lactation starts (of course) when the cow has another calf. So a 3rd lactation animal has had 3 calves. I added the plus sign to some of the numbers since I don't know if the cow has had more lactations than I'm aware of.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milkmaid, post: 544582, member: 852"] Daisy-- with beef cows you talk about "calves", based on the assumption that a cow has a calf every year; ie that's a 1st calf heifer, 2nd calver, 3rd calver, etc. Dairy cows don't always calve every year; some go up to 2 years or more between calves. So we talk about "lactations". A new lactation starts (of course) when the cow has another calf. So a 3rd lactation animal has had 3 calves. I added the plus sign to some of the numbers since I don't know if the cow has had more lactations than I'm aware of. [/QUOTE]
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