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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1398507" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>Just thought that I would honestly and openly share something that may be of benefit to others, although I'm sure most take steps to avoid this. Years ago when I had registered Charolais, I weaned the calves at an average of 7 1/2 months, worked fine until a heifer calf came up bred a couple years in a row. Since then I started weaning around 6 months for the oldest calves.</p><p>Since I have been buying 5-600 weight heifers to be wintered and later sold as bred, I have ended up with at least 1 to be bred before I bought them. I have kept them and calved them out, most of the time they have calved ok and raised pretty good calves, but it was a lot more watching and work. My 2016 calves were spaced out from late Feb-May, and I weaned them</p><p>when the oldest were barely 6 months. Since the calves are Angus and Hereford cross, I thought there could be a chance the oldest calves may have been in heat, we Lutalysed them at weaning. Fast forward to now, I noticed a couple of them looking to be bred. This summer, I am hoping to fix a bull lot to have a place that will hold an older bull away from the cows and calves.</p><p>And as if I'm not crazy enough, after realizing those heifers are bred, last week at a cow sale I bought a heifer 4-6 months bred to go along with them. I figured that I would be having to watch those like a hawk, I may as well take a chance on another one. :hide: </p><p><a href="https://postimg.org/image/u6omkutc3/" target="_blank"><img src="https://s21.postimg.org/u6omkutc3/Pic_02162017_001.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://postimg.org/image/oqlef9ytj/" target="_blank"><img src="https://s23.postimg.org/oqlef9ytj/Pic_02162017_003.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1398507, member: 24816"] Just thought that I would honestly and openly share something that may be of benefit to others, although I'm sure most take steps to avoid this. Years ago when I had registered Charolais, I weaned the calves at an average of 7 1/2 months, worked fine until a heifer calf came up bred a couple years in a row. Since then I started weaning around 6 months for the oldest calves. Since I have been buying 5-600 weight heifers to be wintered and later sold as bred, I have ended up with at least 1 to be bred before I bought them. I have kept them and calved them out, most of the time they have calved ok and raised pretty good calves, but it was a lot more watching and work. My 2016 calves were spaced out from late Feb-May, and I weaned them when the oldest were barely 6 months. Since the calves are Angus and Hereford cross, I thought there could be a chance the oldest calves may have been in heat, we Lutalysed them at weaning. Fast forward to now, I noticed a couple of them looking to be bred. This summer, I am hoping to fix a bull lot to have a place that will hold an older bull away from the cows and calves. And as if I'm not crazy enough, after realizing those heifers are bred, last week at a cow sale I bought a heifer 4-6 months bred to go along with them. I figured that I would be having to watch those like a hawk, I may as well take a chance on another one. :hide: [url=https://postimg.org/image/u6omkutc3/][img]https://s21.postimg.org/u6omkutc3/Pic_02162017_001.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://postimg.org/image/oqlef9ytj/][img]https://s23.postimg.org/oqlef9ytj/Pic_02162017_003.jpg[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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