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Pulling calves off cows to bring into heat
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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1473867" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Not my idea of the way to do it but maybe for some it would work. We try to have a 60 day window both spring and fall. The calves are 75% born within 30 days, so I don't get too excited about it. Since we sell in groups mostly, we will have 2 or 3 groups of similiarly sized calves to go at a time. And we held a bunch this year and will try shipping them bigger in Jan or Feb. to see if prices will come up a bit. Not sure if we will like this but want to try it. </p><p></p><p>Don't seem to have much problem getting most of the cows to come in heat in that 30-60 day window... We mostly will move them to a pasture that has good grass in the spring, they seem to get "flushed" with the green growth, and come in heat and breed..... the one fall place has stockpiled grass and they are coming in heat now, on it. No hay or anything except mineral because there is 6 months growth there to work on. If we get snow or anything we will feed hay but unless it is buried, they often will prefer to nose through for the cured grass.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1473867, member: 25884"] Not my idea of the way to do it but maybe for some it would work. We try to have a 60 day window both spring and fall. The calves are 75% born within 30 days, so I don't get too excited about it. Since we sell in groups mostly, we will have 2 or 3 groups of similiarly sized calves to go at a time. And we held a bunch this year and will try shipping them bigger in Jan or Feb. to see if prices will come up a bit. Not sure if we will like this but want to try it. Don't seem to have much problem getting most of the cows to come in heat in that 30-60 day window... We mostly will move them to a pasture that has good grass in the spring, they seem to get "flushed" with the green growth, and come in heat and breed..... the one fall place has stockpiled grass and they are coming in heat now, on it. No hay or anything except mineral because there is 6 months growth there to work on. If we get snow or anything we will feed hay but unless it is buried, they often will prefer to nose through for the cured grass. [/QUOTE]
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