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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 606465" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>at our place we typically have 1 unbred cow a year, out of about 18 cows and 3 heifers, so about 95%... we'd like better, if it could be 1 out of 40, we'd be happy with that, but a lot of the time we know ahead of time the cow is no good anymore.</p><p></p><p>just because you replace 10% of the herd per year does not mean that you don't have older cows, it can mean that your old cows are good, because you weed out the bad ones early on... we typically save 3 heifer calves a year, which would work out to about 15%.. we also breed at 2 years old, but there's a good chance one of the three will end up in the freezer when she's a long yearling because she didn't keep up to the others.. also, we found that if a cow is going to have trouble, it's either when she's young (not being bred for the 2nd calf, or late) or when she's old and tired out. We are also less and less tolerant of attitude problems.. you break fences, you're gone, you're a witch at calving time, ditto, your nice roan colour as a calf has turned to mouse-grey and you look like a dirty rag.. well, you better walk the line... </p><p></p><p>Yes, keeping heifers 2 years is definitely a loss when they don't perform, but we never need to pull calves anymore and they have a lot more milk... meanwhile they can eat the old hay that we wouldn't want to feed to the pregnant cows, so they aren't useless... we just have to put up with their mooing since they're always in heat</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 606465, member: 9096"] at our place we typically have 1 unbred cow a year, out of about 18 cows and 3 heifers, so about 95%... we'd like better, if it could be 1 out of 40, we'd be happy with that, but a lot of the time we know ahead of time the cow is no good anymore. just because you replace 10% of the herd per year does not mean that you don't have older cows, it can mean that your old cows are good, because you weed out the bad ones early on... we typically save 3 heifer calves a year, which would work out to about 15%.. we also breed at 2 years old, but there's a good chance one of the three will end up in the freezer when she's a long yearling because she didn't keep up to the others.. also, we found that if a cow is going to have trouble, it's either when she's young (not being bred for the 2nd calf, or late) or when she's old and tired out. We are also less and less tolerant of attitude problems.. you break fences, you're gone, you're a witch at calving time, ditto, your nice roan colour as a calf has turned to mouse-grey and you look like a dirty rag.. well, you better walk the line... Yes, keeping heifers 2 years is definitely a loss when they don't perform, but we never need to pull calves anymore and they have a lot more milk... meanwhile they can eat the old hay that we wouldn't want to feed to the pregnant cows, so they aren't useless... we just have to put up with their mooing since they're always in heat [/QUOTE]
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