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<blockquote data-quote="milkmaid" data-source="post: 211152" data-attributes="member: 852"><p>I can't comment on how well they'll breed back on the first cycle after pulling calves as I'm not sure...but I can comment on the milk production. Looking at it from a dairy standpoint, if the cow is being milked 2x a day at ~12 hour intervals and she misses one milking (obviously she's going to be really full), gets milked out completely at the following milking (24 hours past previous milking), the NEXT milking 12 hours later will have decreased production, sometimes the next one after that, but they rapidly return to previous production. Doesn't throw them off that much. Been there seen that.</p><p></p><p>I do know you "can" wean at 6-8 weeks of age - I do it with bottle calves, but never with calves on a nurse cow. The latter isn't that different from one of your beef cow/calf pairs, as I leave cow/calves together 24/7. Earliest I'll wean calves on a nurse cow is 10-13 weeks as they just don't wean well earlier than that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milkmaid, post: 211152, member: 852"] I can't comment on how well they'll breed back on the first cycle after pulling calves as I'm not sure...but I can comment on the milk production. Looking at it from a dairy standpoint, if the cow is being milked 2x a day at ~12 hour intervals and she misses one milking (obviously she's going to be really full), gets milked out completely at the following milking (24 hours past previous milking), the NEXT milking 12 hours later will have decreased production, sometimes the next one after that, but they rapidly return to previous production. Doesn't throw them off that much. Been there seen that. I do know you "can" wean at 6-8 weeks of age - I do it with bottle calves, but never with calves on a nurse cow. The latter isn't that different from one of your beef cow/calf pairs, as I leave cow/calves together 24/7. Earliest I'll wean calves on a nurse cow is 10-13 weeks as they just don't wean well earlier than that. [/QUOTE]
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