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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 1307168" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>Every once in a while you will get one of those oddballs that just don;t measure up. A couple of years ago we had one that came from a breeding that we had done a lot of in the past. Her sisters all ran 160-170. Externally she looked just like the rest. Her pelvic was 123. Without the measurement we would have kept her and had one helluva mess come calving time. At AI time we would have caught it, just because it would have been a tight fit with my hand. But by then we would have had a little more feed in her (about 3 months worth). When she would have been shipped she would have been a one calf lot instead of being in a group, possibly a little less money that way. She;s the only one that failed that miserably, but that in itself to me made it worth the 75 cents a head that the vet charges to do the RTS. I see it as just one more step in a management process.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 1307168, member: 34"] Every once in a while you will get one of those oddballs that just don;t measure up. A couple of years ago we had one that came from a breeding that we had done a lot of in the past. Her sisters all ran 160-170. Externally she looked just like the rest. Her pelvic was 123. Without the measurement we would have kept her and had one helluva mess come calving time. At AI time we would have caught it, just because it would have been a tight fit with my hand. But by then we would have had a little more feed in her (about 3 months worth). When she would have been shipped she would have been a one calf lot instead of being in a group, possibly a little less money that way. She;s the only one that failed that miserably, but that in itself to me made it worth the 75 cents a head that the vet charges to do the RTS. I see it as just one more step in a management process. [/QUOTE]
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