Pregnant heifer? Need some help

[j&lfarms]

We had to pull it. Easy pull tho. Heifer is doing fine cleaning the calf up. I'm still waiting on him to get up tho. My blood pressure just dropped about 30 pts lol

 

[glacierridge]

Yay!! Can't wait to see some pics

 

[Taurus]

Glad that it's an easy pull and not call the vet in and have a C-section on the heifer.

 

[j&lfarms]

My wallet is glad also taurus. He was 75+ pounds.

 

[denvermartinfarms]

Good deal! If it was me I would pen her alone or with anything else your feeding and get her some grain for a while.

 

[j&lfarms]

I've got them penned up in a barn for tonight to make sure she claims him well. I will keep her in the half acre lot for a day or two. Why would you feed her grain for a while? and how longs a while?

 

[glacierridge]

To give her extra energy.
She's still growing too.
Like the dairy boys, they give their milking ones plenty of feed.
I would make sure you have a good ration for her, shes gotta grow a bit yet and she has another mouth to make bloom for you too.
I would give her a decent amount for a good portion of her lactation.

 

[j&lfarms]

I've got a pretty good feed I usually feed. It's a 13% protein with a little molasses. Seems to do the trick.

 

[denvermartinfarms]

That should be a fine feed, I would feed at least 5 pounds a day if you were going to do it for a while, if not I would give a little more if you can only do it for a day or two. On one like this it would probably be good to be able to feed her for a month or so, but that's not always a option and not always necessary.

 

[denvermartinfarms]

And on why, it would help milk production, energy, and I haven't seen her, but young ones that have calves at her age, most of the time could just use some help bouncing back.

 

[Double R Ranch]

Excellent!!! So happy for you!

 

[j&lfarms]

Here are some pics of them. I'm thinking she was bred to a charolais or a red angus. Either way I think he's a good calf.

 

[denvermartinfarms]

Good calf, I was going to ask what she was bred to. Something red for sure, not Charolais.

 

[Taurus]

Looks very nice calf, but looks big calf when he's standing next to the heifer! He might be Angus-sired, tho it's not Charolais that's for sure. At last you would know that the heifer has red genetics and she's a hetro black.

 

[j&lfarms]

He was a big calf for her. Keep in mind I took the bull off of them wanting them to calve 9 months from now but instead she bagged up and had a calf lol.

 

[presmudjo]

yup she did good. Now take her out to dinner and give her a nice little bowl of cow goodies, and another later for desert. she deserves it!

 

[Double R Ranch]

Looks like everyone is ok! Great outcome! Decent size calf for that teen mama ;-) congrats!!

 

[glacierridge]

Aww. So happy everything went well!!!!
Hope she's a good cow for you.

 

[thommoos]

Congrats on the calf, but dang, that a small heifer for such a big calf. Keep her on feed, might get even think about a bovatec mineral block, helkps it weight gain

 

[Chris H]

I'd get her on 5 lbs of that grain/day and get her on grass. There's not enough grass for that heifer in that lot. You could feed her good quality hay but she'd do better on grass.

If you feed her all she can eat of grass & 5 lbs grain, then she'll likely breed back in 4 weeks and calve close to the others next year. If you've got plenty of grass you can probably drop the grain in a month, watch her condition. Right now she's pretty thin, but she has a reason to be.