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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 596320" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>KNERSIE pretty well sums it up We want heifers that look good when they come at weaning, won;t keep those that really bloom and look their best after a couple of weeks of grain ration. Since we know what to expect from the cow we pretty well know hwat to expect from the heifer. But that is far from foolproof. We have one older cow that has alwasy raised an exceptional calf. We've always bred her to the same bull. Bull calves do great on the rail and the feeders really like them. Her first heifer is just like her (she's a 4th calver now) and her calves have always been exceptional. We kept a heifer from the old cow, sired by the same bull as all the others and she just didn;t have the same look and style as all of the other calves. We retained her because we knew what to expect. What we ended up with was a poor doing heifer with marginal milk and a calf that had brain tumors. That was one of those cases that we kept the heifer against my better judgement because of history. Turned out she just got the wrong mixture of genes to make a good cow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 596320, member: 34"] KNERSIE pretty well sums it up We want heifers that look good when they come at weaning, won;t keep those that really bloom and look their best after a couple of weeks of grain ration. Since we know what to expect from the cow we pretty well know hwat to expect from the heifer. But that is far from foolproof. We have one older cow that has alwasy raised an exceptional calf. We've always bred her to the same bull. Bull calves do great on the rail and the feeders really like them. Her first heifer is just like her (she's a 4th calver now) and her calves have always been exceptional. We kept a heifer from the old cow, sired by the same bull as all the others and she just didn;t have the same look and style as all of the other calves. We retained her because we knew what to expect. What we ended up with was a poor doing heifer with marginal milk and a calf that had brain tumors. That was one of those cases that we kept the heifer against my better judgement because of history. Turned out she just got the wrong mixture of genes to make a good cow. [/QUOTE]
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