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Retained Heifer Percentage ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1673390" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>I knew two guys who retained nearly 100% of their heifers. The first guy bred all his heifers. He had 400 cows so I will say 200 heifers. Bred them all to calving ease bulls. He had a vet who was real good with ultra sound. So at some point they ultra sounded all the heifers. He selected from the earliest bred heifers who had a bull calf in them. I am certain he looked at other things too but the early calving with bull calves was the first cut. Generally kept about 40 of them. He sold the rest as bred heifers.</p><p>The other guy kept all his heifers. About 200+ of them. Bred them all. Calved them all out. When the calves were about 3 months old he made his selections. The cull heifers got the calves pulled and sent to a feedlot where he retained ownership. This was before the 30 month rule. I am sure doing this now would push that 30 month thing pretty hard.</p><p>These and other ideas may or may not work but there certainly is more than one way to skin a cat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1673390, member: 498"] I knew two guys who retained nearly 100% of their heifers. The first guy bred all his heifers. He had 400 cows so I will say 200 heifers. Bred them all to calving ease bulls. He had a vet who was real good with ultra sound. So at some point they ultra sounded all the heifers. He selected from the earliest bred heifers who had a bull calf in them. I am certain he looked at other things too but the early calving with bull calves was the first cut. Generally kept about 40 of them. He sold the rest as bred heifers. The other guy kept all his heifers. About 200+ of them. Bred them all. Calved them all out. When the calves were about 3 months old he made his selections. The cull heifers got the calves pulled and sent to a feedlot where he retained ownership. This was before the 30 month rule. I am sure doing this now would push that 30 month thing pretty hard. These and other ideas may or may not work but there certainly is more than one way to skin a cat. [/QUOTE]
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