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<blockquote data-quote="Running Arrow Bill" data-source="post: 201702" data-attributes="member: 9"><p>True...stuff can happen, and "easy birth successes" 100% of the time is fantasy...with any breed. However, it helps to improve our odds if we can.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, just because one has a lower birth rate calf and/or out of a heifer or cow that has an "adequate" pelvic opening size, does not mean in any way you will end up with a "non-marketable runt." Not everyone is selling beef "by the pound" as there are many seed stock producers and private treaty people out there (with different breeds) that sell cattle "by the each" for prices several times the sale barn or feedlot prices.</p><p></p><p>Please don't interpret my comments as being defensive or nuts. I'll take an easy calving female any day that "pops a calf right out by herself" and and the calf hits the ground running (literally) in an hour or so.</p><p></p><p>It probably goes without saying that the seedstock and specialty breed people will never agree with the commercial production oriented people. In all good faith, we all tend to agree to disagree with our programs...there is nothing wrong with that. ;-)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Running Arrow Bill, post: 201702, member: 9"] True...stuff can happen, and "easy birth successes" 100% of the time is fantasy...with any breed. However, it helps to improve our odds if we can. On the other hand, just because one has a lower birth rate calf and/or out of a heifer or cow that has an "adequate" pelvic opening size, does not mean in any way you will end up with a "non-marketable runt." Not everyone is selling beef "by the pound" as there are many seed stock producers and private treaty people out there (with different breeds) that sell cattle "by the each" for prices several times the sale barn or feedlot prices. Please don't interpret my comments as being defensive or nuts. I'll take an easy calving female any day that "pops a calf right out by herself" and and the calf hits the ground running (literally) in an hour or so. It probably goes without saying that the seedstock and specialty breed people will never agree with the commercial production oriented people. In all good faith, we all tend to agree to disagree with our programs...there is nothing wrong with that. ;-) [/QUOTE]
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