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Breeding / Calving Issues
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<blockquote data-quote="bird dog" data-source="post: 1792285" data-attributes="member: 5381"><p>You need t give it more time. I would allow three years to try to get them all (or most) into your calving period. Some will move up, some will not no matter what you do. Bringing in new open cows may make things worse. </p><p></p><p>Do to a consolidation of different tracts, I was forced to put three herds that had different calving periods together in one group. I chose to have a wide calving period rather than sell off some proven cows. I tried to get some to move up, and let others move back. After a few years most have stuck to their original schedule. Its more work but since I rotate, its not that big a deal. When they rotate to the field with the pens, some calves get weaned. I am doing nine tomorrow. They will fence line wean for 4 or 5 days. </p><p>After weaning the calves then go into the backgrounding part of my business. Dropping these rookies into an group of experienced weaned calves seems to get them settled and eating good right away.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bird dog, post: 1792285, member: 5381"] You need t give it more time. I would allow three years to try to get them all (or most) into your calving period. Some will move up, some will not no matter what you do. Bringing in new open cows may make things worse. Do to a consolidation of different tracts, I was forced to put three herds that had different calving periods together in one group. I chose to have a wide calving period rather than sell off some proven cows. I tried to get some to move up, and let others move back. After a few years most have stuck to their original schedule. Its more work but since I rotate, its not that big a deal. When they rotate to the field with the pens, some calves get weaned. I am doing nine tomorrow. They will fence line wean for 4 or 5 days. After weaning the calves then go into the backgrounding part of my business. Dropping these rookies into an group of experienced weaned calves seems to get them settled and eating good right away. [/QUOTE]
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