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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1813936" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>This 220 aces of rough ground we have in south Ga, is probably over 100 acres in Kudzu. For years..decades... we have kept a herd of 100-120 Corriente cows on it. We do not worm vaccinate, or doctor these cows ( or didn't, I should say..sold the last of them a month ago). We did not feed them,. not even hay....just keep minerals and salt available free choice. Around Easter we would turn 5 or 6 Brangus mostly, bulls in with them and remove them Memorial weekend, We would drive them across the road to 450 acres of row crops that had been harvested, where they stayed til the end of quail/rabbit season mid Feb. Then.,l we'd drive them and the calves back over to the Kudzu place. In March, we'd round them all up, tag the calves ad cut the bull calves. End of August, right before opening day of dove season, we rounded them up again and hauled the calves to the sale. That is the extent of pour handling of these cows. Never saw one calve, except once when one did when we were driving them across the road in February We saw them then, tyhe March calf working day, and end of August when we loaded them to go to the sale. Literally saw them three times a year, Started doing this in the late 90's, 98 or so, and never lost a calf. After reading what [USER=40418]@simme[/USER] posted, I realize now that we didn't have them on Kudzu their last 90 days of gestation. This was not by design because of knowledge of the dangers of high protein during pregnancy...we did this according to our quail and rabbit hunting seasons, Didn't know we were doing good by cutting down the protein in their diet the last 90-100 days. But, these jersey heifers are not the same caliber as Corriente. Sooo, we WERE gonna leave them out there all the time like we did the Corr herds, but now since learning about protein during pregnancy, I got worried about those little Jersey heifers trying to calve 110 lb Brahma calves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1813936, member: 40587"] This 220 aces of rough ground we have in south Ga, is probably over 100 acres in Kudzu. For years..decades... we have kept a herd of 100-120 Corriente cows on it. We do not worm vaccinate, or doctor these cows ( or didn't, I should say..sold the last of them a month ago). We did not feed them,. not even hay....just keep minerals and salt available free choice. Around Easter we would turn 5 or 6 Brangus mostly, bulls in with them and remove them Memorial weekend, We would drive them across the road to 450 acres of row crops that had been harvested, where they stayed til the end of quail/rabbit season mid Feb. Then.,l we'd drive them and the calves back over to the Kudzu place. In March, we'd round them all up, tag the calves ad cut the bull calves. End of August, right before opening day of dove season, we rounded them up again and hauled the calves to the sale. That is the extent of pour handling of these cows. Never saw one calve, except once when one did when we were driving them across the road in February We saw them then, tyhe March calf working day, and end of August when we loaded them to go to the sale. Literally saw them three times a year, Started doing this in the late 90's, 98 or so, and never lost a calf. After reading what [USER=40418]@simme[/USER] posted, I realize now that we didn't have them on Kudzu their last 90 days of gestation. This was not by design because of knowledge of the dangers of high protein during pregnancy...we did this according to our quail and rabbit hunting seasons, Didn't know we were doing good by cutting down the protein in their diet the last 90-100 days. But, these jersey heifers are not the same caliber as Corriente. Sooo, we WERE gonna leave them out there all the time like we did the Corr herds, but now since learning about protein during pregnancy, I got worried about those little Jersey heifers trying to calve 110 lb Brahma calves. [/QUOTE]
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