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not sure how you ranchers do it.....
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<blockquote data-quote="Rafter S" data-source="post: 1363979" data-attributes="member: 21194"><p>I'm sorry. I had gotten the mistaken impression from your first post here that you're new to cattle. I don't know what else to tell you. I keep salt and mineral out all the time. I don't cull for having twins, but I've also never needed to pull one. I currently have about 25 mature cows, and calve out any where from 6 - 10 heifers per year, and I almost never pull a calf. Some of that is bull selection, some if it is heifer selection, and some of it is nutrition. I'm sure there are other factors. Luck is likely one of them. I've never had a beef breed cow with mastitis. That could be because I calve in late fall and early winter, so when the milk comes on in spring the calves are big enough to handle all of it, but even when I calved year-round I didn't have any problems with it, so yes, I probably would cull that cow. I wouldn't say I'd cull all of her heifers, but I would watch them like a hawk and cull at the slightest indication of problems. Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rafter S, post: 1363979, member: 21194"] I'm sorry. I had gotten the mistaken impression from your first post here that you're new to cattle. I don't know what else to tell you. I keep salt and mineral out all the time. I don't cull for having twins, but I've also never needed to pull one. I currently have about 25 mature cows, and calve out any where from 6 - 10 heifers per year, and I almost never pull a calf. Some of that is bull selection, some if it is heifer selection, and some of it is nutrition. I'm sure there are other factors. Luck is likely one of them. I've never had a beef breed cow with mastitis. That could be because I calve in late fall and early winter, so when the milk comes on in spring the calves are big enough to handle all of it, but even when I calved year-round I didn't have any problems with it, so yes, I probably would cull that cow. I wouldn't say I'd cull all of her heifers, but I would watch them like a hawk and cull at the slightest indication of problems. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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